A May Day at Home
PORT TOWNSEND, WA–I am very ill and disabled at the time, so I was not able to go out onto the streets. But from my home I could refrain from shopping, banking, buying gasoline. I have helped my...
View ArticleMay Day Confusion at Grand Circus Park
DETROIT, MI–For the May Day events, I started in the Media Command Center for Occupy Detroit till about 4 or 5 pm. Then I joined the fun. In this video clip from Occupy Detroit, there is a group of...
View ArticleMay Day General Strike!
New York, NY – Well, it’s been six months since my last adventure in NYC with OWS after slugging it out with Occupy Muskegon all winter, fighting for the clean-up of a local paper mill that is being...
View ArticleMay Day NYC: How the Cops are Occupying Wall Street Too
New York, NY – Today, I occupied the May Day International General Strike of Occupy Wall Street. The few thousand Occupiers at Bryant Park midtown, were made up of union workers, disappointed...
View ArticleBlack Bloc in Oakland
Oakland, CA – Rhetoric from some veteran journalists, especially liberal progressives and mainstream TV insist the current tactics of Occupy is alienating the very segment of the population it is...
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A Review of May Day in South Florida
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared on Food Not Bombs. MIAMI, FL–Welcome to another withering criticism of a large-scale Occupy Miami event! Just kidding…actually for the first time in a long...
View ArticleMay Day Miami – Heating Things Up
MIAMI, FL–I remember when Occupy Miami had gained its respected reputation for having the most peaceful relationship with the police… Things are now a bit different. As you can imagine, Spring has come...
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Wildcat March and Late Night Arrests
Editors note: This post originally appeared On Globetrotting – New York, NY – While living in Europe I was was witness to some intense May Day scenes, from evicted squatters smashing windows in Zurich...
View ArticleThe Black Bloc And Wildcat Rally: One Perspective
Editors note: this was originally published in the Thought Catalog. – New York, NY – Surrounded by hundreds of police officers and protesters, I was sitting on the steps of Sara D. Roosevelt Park, on...
View ArticleMay Day Speech at Occupy Tacoma
TACOMA, WA–This is a video recording of the May Day speech I gave at the lovely and historic Wright Park in Tacoma, Washington State, to a rally organized by Occupy Tacoma and others. This park is a...
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