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SPECIAL MAY DAY COVERAGE

SPECIAL MAY DAY COVERAGE
Mon, 4/30/2012
This article originally appeared on Free Speech TV

Live Coverage: May Day Protests
Nationwide

Journalists from over 25 leading independent media
outlets report on May Day actions nationwide. Welcome to media for the
99%.

Storified by The Media Consortium · Mon, Apr 30
2012 03:41:24

On May 1, immigration, labor, and occupy
activists across the country will take to the streets to attempt a
general strike in protest of anti-immigration legislation, economic
inequality, and unfair labor practices.
Occupy Prepares
for May Day: No Work, No School, No Banking | The NationOccupy
Prepares for May Day: No Work, No School, No Banking | The
Nation
Why This May Day MattersThis year, the day is about
occupying the space and the time to create a different world. If the
mainstream media was confused about Occu...
What actions
have these activists planned?
On May Day, Expect Scores
of Rallies, Marches, Creative Actions | Activism | AlterNetAn Occupy
Wall Street organizer I know - one of the original ones, from the
planning meetings before the occupation began last September
...
How do these many different activists, each with their
own visions, plan to coordinate together?
How to Change
a System: Occupy and the Question of Non-Violence | National Radio
ProjectThere's a raging debate within the Occupy movement over what
tactics should be used. On this edition, a debate from Oakland,
California b...
Scott Tucker: May Day 2012: The Call for a
General Strike - TruthdigIn the winter of 2011, discussion about
calling a general strike had already begun within Occupy Los Angeles.
At the end of January 2012,...
"On the first of May, the
Occupy Wall Street movement hopes to leverage the labor holiday known
as May Day and muster enough people power to blockade the Golden Gate
Bridge—assuming, that is, that striking bridge workers take the lead.
'We can't do an action for them; we have to do the action with
them,' says Lauren Smith, a spokeswoman for Occupy Oakland." - Mother
Jones
Occupy Aching for a May Day ComebackOn the first
of May, the Occupy Wall Street movement hopes to leverage the labor
holiday known as May Day and muster enough people power
...
The fight for labor rights and income equality has
reentered mainstream awareness after the Occupy Wall Street movement
started last fall, but the origin of the 99 percent's struggle goes
back to the 18th century:
Behind May Day, a centuries-long
struggle for worker rights | Free Speech Radio NewsWhether among New
York City's car washers or workers in cities across the country, the
gap between labor and bosses, workers and those
wh...

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