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Chicago’s May Day Takes the Streets
"Unionize, Organize, Papeles Para Todos [Papers for All]" was the slogan of this year's May Day, bringing together two traditional strongholds of the march in Chicago - immigrant rights …
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Labor Not Loyalty on May 1
Two key steps have helped to ruin May Day in the United States. First, Labor Day was created at a completely different time of year — labor day without …
May Day Special on OWS, Immigration, Labor Protests: “No Work, No Shopping, Occupy Everywhere”
As Occupy Wall Street plans nationwide protests marking International Workers Day, or May Day, we discuss the movement with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Chris Hedges; Amin Husain, editor of Tidal …
Welcome to the 2012 Hunger Games: Sending Debt Peonage, Poverty and Freaky Weather Into the Arena
When I was growing up, I ate books for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and since I was constantly running out of reading material, I read everyone else’s — which …
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Why This May Day Matters
If the mainstream media was confused about Occupy Wall Street in its early days in Zuccotti Park, they’re bound to be completely befuddled this May Day. May Day …
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The Haymarket Affair and the Origins of May Day
(Photo: Frank Edwards / Flickr)May 1st is May Day, the international workers' holiday honoring the labor movement. May Day is celebrated in at least 80 countries worldwide, from Argentina …
Ahead of May Day, David Harvey Details Urban Uprisings From Occupy Wall Street to the Paris Commune
On Tuesday, May 1st, known as May Day or International Workers' Day, Occupy Wall Street protesters hope to mobilize tens of thousands of people across the country under the …
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Chicago to Welcome Militarized May Day?
McCormick Place, site of the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago, Illinois. Operation Red Zone, a security perimeter around the site, will be patrolled by federal law enforcement carrying "non-lethal" …
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Our Hope Is in Our Struggle: Reclaiming Land and Life in Honduras
In Honduras, as in most places, the government and the wealthy treat land as a commodity. In pursuit of the profits it offers, they have taken enormous tracts of …
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May Day
People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can …