Monday, April 30, 2012

May day

  • May Day, which falls each year on May 1, is International Workers Day.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • If the mainstream media was confused about Occupy Wall Street in its early days in Zuccotti Park, theyre bound to be completely befuddled this May Day. May Day already has a lot piled on it.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • 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.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • A strike by Golden Gate ferry workers will shut down service on Tuesday morning for May Day, the international workers holiday. Similar protests and acts of civil disobedience are expected to take place in cities across the nation.
  • (Contra Costa Times)
  • By MARCUS WOHLSEN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - May Day protests may disrupt the morning commute in major U.S. cities Tuesday as labor, immigration and Occupy activists rally support on the international workers holiday.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • Tuesdays May Day march could give Chicagoans a glimpse as to how protesters will be handled during next months NATO Summit. With 75 organizations taking part in the workers rights march, Tuesdays protest could be larger than in recent years.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • May 1 is a day of many holidays. It is known as May Day, the feast day of St. Joseph the Worker, and proclaimed by President Eisenhower in 1958 as Law Day and Loyalty Day. This article will focus on May Day.
  • (Examiner)
  • SEATTLE (AP) — Occupy Seattle, immigrant rights groups and others will hold a series of rallies and marches on Tuesday.
  • (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
  • The May Day protests are the centerpiece of a spring offensive by the Occupy movement, which garnered headlines last fall after protesters set up camp in New Yorks Zucotti Park.
  • (CBS News)

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