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Y! Big Story: Occupy actions on May Day May 1st 2012, 01:28 May DayMay Day, also known as International Workers' Day, is a holiday in 75 countries, except for the country where people may work the hardest of all. Occupy though has a notion to take the day for its Spring Reawakening. Its General's Strike Facebook page sums up the mission: "NO WORK - NO SCHOOL - NO SHOPPING - NO BANKING - NO TRADING. THE PEOPLE OF THE PLANETS WILL TAKE TO THE STREETS." Whether you're for, against, or neutral on Occupy, the disruptions will affect business as usual—and that includes traffic. Nearly 60 general assembles have "answered the call" to observe May Day. "V for Vendetta" co-opted for Occupy artThe Occupy demands: A group as large as the 99% is bound to have a lot of demands. The strike ostensibly is to show the 1% that the 99% matter. The demands range from supporting immigrants and labor (preserving bargaining rights, for instance) and a living wage (protesting outsourcing). Outrage still drives the movement, and its list of injustices include college debt, unaffordable health care, bullying, insufficient minimum wage, job sexism, homelessness, foreclosures, and war. Some of the planned May Day events: East Coast Boston: An early 7 a.m. start kicks off a "Financial District Block Party," with "Anti-Capitalist" and "Solidarity" marches throughout the city. The evening event calls for a Death of Capitalism Street Theater Funeral Process that promises to travel "through areas of wealth and commer.ce" Tom Morello throwdownNew York: The pop-up occupation begins the night before, as people started a day early Bryant Park, opposite the Bank of America. Organizers promise to manifest its protests as art, "transforming [the city] into a living, walking exhibition" that includes choirs,dance brigades, even clowns. Guitarist and singer Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine tweeted out a call for 10,000 guitar players for a noon-day jam. South Atlanta. The Georgia capital started a day early at the Bank of America Plaza to protest a foreclosure. The May Day is designed as family friendly, with a 10:30 a.m.-1p.m. march from Troy Davis Park to downtown, then a six-hour party at Coan Park complete with childcare, "cookouts, workshops, film screening, and more." The May Day event follows on the heels of a public exchange: A local journalist published a long, "angry break up letter" about the "concentration of nuttery," and a response detailing Atlanta actions and vision statements. Midwest Chicago: The city has already been dealing with protests due to tthe closure of half of its 12 public health clinics. The Chicago Spring site lists a morning plan to "close the banks which abused their bailout funds" before Union Park meeting, than a 1pm march to Federal Plaza. Detroit: Motor City will have a later start with a noon assembly at Clark Park, and marches that will take protesters past schools, transportation stations, and the Federal Building before ending with a general assembly at Grand Circus Park. West Coast San Francisco: A union disagreement nearly brought an occupation of the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, the span that connects San Francisco to Marin County in the north, but that high-profile maneuver has been averted. Golden Gate Ferry workers, however, will be walking out to call attention to contract disagreements over health care coverage, and morning service has been canceled. "The people who were really pushing for it got pushed back hard," said Chance Martin, a member of Occupy San Francisco. But demonstrators plan to turn out in large numbers at the protest sites. They plan to take buses from downtown Oakland and San Francisco to the bridge early Tuesday, organizers said. (April 30, SFGate) Oakland. The city emerged as the West Coast response to New York. The Bay Area metropolis, which grafted an earlier anti-police movement with the 99% message, still listed a 6am occupation of Golden Gate Bridge on its main page as late as April 30, but a tentative schedule listed "anti-capitalist," "anti-patriarchy," and "anti-gentrification" brigades starting at 8:30am, with a downtown convergence, afternoon march, and an evening "reconvegernce." Los Angeles: May Day has been the occasion for immigrant rallies in the City of Angels. This year, a "4-Winds Convergence" will emphasize labor themes and more through four caravans. After a 10 am rally, the caravans will take four separate routes to 6th and Main streets for a 2:30 meeting point, and later the financial district. The caravans will stop at flashpoints along the way. Flash occupations, food giveaways, and other direct actions targeting the foreclosure crisis and police brutality will be undertaken at these flashpoints on our slow, city-paralyzing, carnival-esque descent into the center of the city. (Occupy May 1st) General Strike art: Whatever the outcome of May Day, one thing has clearly emerged: the return of propaganda art. Occupy Art Occupy Art

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