May Day! May Day! The OccupyUSA Blog for Monday (April 30), With Frequent Updates

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http://www.thenation.com/blog/167628/may-day-may-day-occupyusa-blog-monday-april-30-frequent-updates

9:45 Lengthy Wash Post piece on one of best OWS groups, OccupySEC, chats with Carne Ross, other "wonks"...

9:15 Just now, from AP: "Four New York City lawmakers are suing the city over its treatment of the Occupy Wall Street protests. The civil rights suit was filed Monday in a Manhattan federal court. It says police conduct is so problematic that the force needs an outside monitor.The city Law Department had no immediate comment Monday. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has defended police handling of the protests. Occupy demonstrators have gone to court before over particular episodes. The new lawsuit is a compendium of complaints. It says the city and police violated demonstrators' free speech and other rights, used excessive force and interfered with journalists' and council members' efforts to observe. City Council members Letitia James, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Ydanis (ee-DAH'nihs) Rodriguez and Jumaane Williams are among the plaintiffs."

9:05 Interesting piece on OWSers putting their advocacy in context of religious faith and how that affects clergy and churches. ... Peter Dreier on history or May Day and how activists are "breathing new life" into it this year.

8:40 Longtime OWS watcher Sarah Jaffe at Alternet with lengthy May Day preview... CBS News has its own May Day preview that looks at movement as a whole, finds it no longer "cool"--no Kanye!-- and celeb magnet but more militant.... List of events in NYC (including "after party&quot as city says it plans to prevent violence and traffic snarls.

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1. off topic a bit but

do you know if the Chicago nato protest is still scheduled for May 20? I had to cancel my May 1 trip but still hope to attend for th 20th if it is still on.

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2. here ya go

http://cang8.wordpress.com/

Coalition Against NATO/G8 War & Poverty Agenda


G8 Moving to Camp David!
NATO summit will still in Chicago… and so will we!

On May 6, the White House announced that the G8 summit, scheduled for Chicago on May 19-20, will be moved to Camp David, although the NATO summit will still take place in Chicago May 20-21.
Click here to read the statement issued by the Coalition Against NATO/G8 War & Poverty Agenda (CANG8) and Occupy Chicago.

Protest the NATO/G8 Summit in Chicago…

Be part of the People’s Summit on May 12-13.
Download the workshop submission form here!
Then
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Noon rally at Daley Plaza, then march to McCormick Place
Join in a legal, permitted, family-friendly march and rally!


http://www.workers.org/2012/us/anti-nato_protest_0503/

Anti-NATO protest sparks growing movement


A new generation of activists has grasped the central, repressive role of NATO on a world scale. They will join the protest in Chicago on May 20 against a NATO summit scheduled there. Their involvement in this and further actions will strengthen the movement against U.S./NATO wars of aggression.

In April, a broad layer of churches, peace organizations and labor unions endorsed the May 20 protests. They have also asked for “teach-in” type discussions to learn more about NATO and its role.

Workers World learned of these developments while speaking to some of the anti-war leaders organizing the Chicago protest. The United National Anti-War Coalition and the Coalition Against NATO/G8 War & Poverty Agenda (CANG8) were the first groups to call the protest.

“Something is happening with this protest that is really remarkable. The administration’s decision last year to hold a NATO military summit and a G8 economic summit in Chicago during the same week, even though they later reversed it, educated everyone by linking NATO and G8,” said Joe Iosbaker, a key CANG8 organizer.

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3. thank you

is that the most recent? I googled and found a different starting point. Perhaps it was the same park but a different section?

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4. now that i don't know -- cause i'm in NC. nt

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5. I love that poster! If they did nothing else, this movement will be remembered for the art work

they have produced.

Thanks for the post, hoping for a big turnout across the world tomorrow.