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1 May
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May day protests nyc: arrested for standing on the side walk! cops acting like god. (occupy, ows)

May Day Protests NYC: ARRESTED for Standing on the Side Walk! Cops acting like god. (occupy, OWS) thanks goto Timcast.tv Occupy Wall Street protesters massed outside banks, meditated in public and staged anti-corporate song and dance routines on Tuesday in a May Day effort to revive a movement that triggered nationwide protests against economic injustice last year. Police arrested small numbers of protesters in minor clashes around New York, chasing hundreds of marchers on Broadway, as demonstrations unfolded around the country. Although labor unions rejected Occupy pleas for a general strike and demonstrators backed off a pledge to occupy San Francisco’s Golden Gate bridge, activists hailed the day’s events as a step forward in the movement that had grown inactive and cash poor since capturing world attention last fall. “We’ve been building important alliances and radicalized people in what they’re willing to endorse. I mean, we never even used to celebrate May Day. Now look at this,” said David Graeber, an anthropologist and author active in the movement. Although May Day originated in Chicago, the workers’ day normally gains little notice in the United States compared with other countries around the world. “We pulled back from big civil disobedience plans this morning with the purpose of building stronger alliances,” Graeber said. But many demonstrators wore black bandanas symbolic of an anarchist faction within the largely peaceful Occupy movement, leading to some of ……



 
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