Occupy Wall Street Plans Global Disruption of Status Quo May 1
Source: Bloomberg
Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, whose anti-greed message spread worldwide during an eight-week encampment in Lower Manhattan last year, plan marches across the globe tomorrow calling attention to what they say are abuses of power and wealth.
Organizers say they hope the coordinated events will mark a spring resurgence of the movement after a quiet winter. Calls for a general strike with no work, no school, no banking and no shopping have sprung up on websites in Toronto, Barcelona, London, Kuala Lumpur and Sydney, among hundreds of cities in North America, Europe and Asia.
In New York, Occupy Wall Street will join scores of labor organizations observing May 1, traditionally recognized as International Workers Day. They plan marches from Union Square to Lower Manhattan and a pop-up occupation of Bryant Park on Sixth Avenue, across the street from Bank of Americas Corp.s 55-story tower.
We call upon people to refrain from shopping, walk out of class, take the day off of work and other creative forms of resistance disrupting the status quo, organizers said in an April 26 e-mail.
Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-30/occupy-wall-street-plans-global-disruption-of-status-quo-may-1.html
Zorra
(27,670 posts)and human rights.
It would be so awesome if everyone who supported labor and human rights would just take a day to reflect on our situation, and maybe join with like minded folks.
The best way to get the attention and change the attitude of the 1% and all republicans is to hit them in their wallet.
If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?
--Rabbi Hillel the Elder
librechik
(30,674 posts)aggiesal
(8,907 posts)Check out the comment section, if you can put up with their tripe!
http://www.gopusa.com/freshink/2012/04/30/3312/?subscriber=1
goclark
(30,404 posts)I can't take their tactics without having to make an appointment with my Psychiatrist.
aggiesal
(8,907 posts)I could only handle the first 2-3 comments before being completely disgusted.
They really have no clue.