MAY DAY 2012: OCCUPY!
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#MayDay is upon us, and this show of solidarity couldn’t be more important.Our struggles are one, as we all face a system that only works for the 1%. We strike to support each other, and to collectively cry out “Enough!” This Tuesday, May 1st, let us stand together to reclaim our jobs, our communities, our lives. Another world is possible. Join us to begin building it. Withdraw your consent and strike! Want to help tell the Occupy story? Visit map.occupy.net for a crowdsourced history of the movement, where you can find and add news, photos and videos as events unfold. Want a tactical tool to help keep you safe, mobile, and informed? View sukey.org/mayday on your smartphone for a timely overview of what’s happening on the ground. Tweet with #sukeynyc to send us reports, photos or videos – or submit a report to Sukey directly, when you click on the dinosaur head to bring up a menu and then select the reporting tool. Use Vibe on your iPhone or Android device to post #M1NYC or #MayDay updates with complete anonymity. Listen to MayDay Radio (maydayradio.occupy.net) live on your smartphone – or FM radio! Watch Media for the 99 Percent Text “@MayDayAction” to 23559 for day-of text updates on ongoing events. Check maydaynyc.org for the full May Day schedule and any last-minute updates. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Bryant Park * Pop-up Occupation (unpermitted) * 99 Picket Lines and other direct actions 2 p.m – March to Union Square * Occupy Guitarmy March from Bryant Park (unpermitted) 4 p.m – Rally at Union Square * Unity Rally (permitted) 5:30 p.m. – March to Wall Street * Solidarity March from Union Square (permitted) 8:00 p.m. – Occupy Wall Street Afterparty * People’s Assembly and Haymarket Martyrs Memorial Resistance Rager (unpermitted) See below for more #M1NYC events all around the city… * Call2Create: Participatory art, from prayer flags to a May Pole to filmmaking and photography * 99 Picket Lines * A Brooklyn March for the General Strike (unpermitted) * The Free University: Lectures, Workshops, Skill-Shares and Discussions * High School Student Walkout Convergence & BBQ * Wildcat March (unpermitted) * Day Without Workers/Día sin los Trabajadores: May Day March and Speakout * May Day on D-Block: LES public housing residents and tenants take to the streets * May Day Choir Convergence * Occupy the Rent Guidelines Board: A Tenants’ General Assembly The Occupy Wall Street Project List is a monthly periodical that informs people about OWS projects and how to get involved. For Text Message alerts on your cellphone about daily events, actions, and important information, sign up for the ComHub SMS blasts by texting @owscom to 23559. |
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Happily some people will work, parents probably. Someone has to pay for all this and keep things moving and livable. The imaginary 1% can’t carry the load for everyone. 48% of U.S. citizens pay no taxes at all. Who covers that? Has anyone heard of Europe? Money has never been more portable. It goes where it can profit. The 1% includes all your favorite athletes, actors and most of the successful professionals (doctors, lawyers, etc.) in the country. Fix your tax code. That would be a more worthwhile endeavor.
I know. Tax the bejeezers out of the rich. Get rid of the army. Well, there just aren’t enough of the rich and we’re not big enough to protect you. Some terrorists were arrested in Cleveland today. We’d have missed that. Oops. Put it to a vote or a referendum. Anyway, the unrest and uncertainty creates no jobs, just overtime for police and other city workers. It also moves the money to more stable environments. I guess this is good for us. My pension is safe! Carry on and have fun. I guess I should be happy.
Here we have students rioting in Quebec over a rise in fees to be spread out over 5 years. They have the lowest rates in Canada and, allowing for inflation, the rise will bring them to 1968 levels. I wouldn’t care except, due to transfer fees between the Federal Government and the Provinces I will pay for that. Sorry to make it about money but I am a pensioner. I put in my time. I like the lights to be on and roads to be in working order. Workers, not picketers, make that possible. They are working today, at least here they are.
Well, I was wrong. Apparently about 1,000 protesters wandered aimlessly about Toronto and those few that attempted to camp in a park were sent home. Lucky for them. Last fall so many left their tents empty at night that other ‘occupiers’ moved in. The original ‘Occupiers’ were forced to call, oh horrors, the police.
Here is the cast of yesterday’s May Day supporters in Toronto as published: Afghans for Peace, CAMP Sis, Canadian Auto Workers Union, Casa Salvador Allende, Centre for Social Justice, Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid, Coalition Against Psychiatric Assault, Committee for the Defence of the Iranian Peoples Rights (Canada Organization), Committee of Progressive Pakistani-Canadians, Common Cause Toronto, Communist Party of Canada, DAMN, Food Not Bombs, Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly, Health for All, International Council of Latin American and Caribbean Women in Canada, International Federation of Iranian Refugees, Iraqi Federation of Refugees in Canada, Indigenous Environmental Network, Indigenous Sovereignty and Solidarity Network, International League of People’s Struggles Canada, International Socialists, Justice for Migrant Workers, Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network, LATUC Ontario, Law Union of Ontario, Maggie’s: Toronto Sex Workers Action Project, Metro Toronto Labour Council, Mining Injustice Solidarity Network, Movement Defence Committee, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, Ontario Federation of Labour, ProtestBarrick, Rhythms of Resistance, Students Against Israeli Apartheid – York, Socialist Project, Stop the Cuts, Toronto Bolivia Solidarity, Toronto New Socialists, Toronto Socialist Action, Trans Film Series, Tudeh Party of Iran – Canada Organization, United May Day Committee, United South Asians at York, Unity Against Unemployment in Iraq, Women’s Coordinating Committee for a Free Wallmapu [Toronto], Workers Action Centre, Workers Communist Party of Iran and more.
I’m thinking that a common theme or even a name might be difficult to come up with.
Meanwhile in Montreal 100 people were arrested as the students and whatever rabble had joined them rioted. May Day!
So, all in all there was a May Day contrary to my original thoughts just not so much where I live. We’re north of the city with not much to do but we’re quiet about it.