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Tomorrow is May Day, and Occupy groups have spent months planning a general strike. Organizers are calling on people everywhere to show solidarity by abstaining from commerce, staying home from school and work, avoiding the bank, and other activities as part of a ‘day without the 99%.’
As one of the only outlets to have continuously reported on OWS since Day 1, we’re proud, excited and a little bit anxious for tomorrow, and we will have ongoing coverage of May Day events. I just wanted to take a moment and preview some of what we will be doing tomorrow:
Kevin Gosztola will be joined at the Dissenter by Dustin Slaughter- an independent journalist, political photographer, activist and founder of the David and Goliath Project, which celebrates and examines protest culture. Dustin has also been covering the Occupy movement since it began, and we’re excited to have him and Kevin doing our live blog throughout the day.
We’ve also teamed up with The Media Consortium as part of the Media for the 99% campaign, which seeks to confront the inaccurate portrayals and lack of depth and analysis in corporate media reporting on Occupy by pooling together the coverage of independent media outlets including Firedoglake, The Nation, Truthdig, Yes! Magazine, Mother Jones and others.
Media Consortium put together some really cool tools for May Day and we’re so happy to share them with you all on our May Day 2012 coverage page. They include:
- Interactive Map that plots events, articles and arrests across the country.
- Live Broadcasting featuring reports from around the U.S. and in-studio commentary.
- Curated Social Media via Storify with breaking news from Twitter, Facebook, blog posts and more.
Head on over to our May Day 2012 page tomorrow for breaking news and updates on May Day activities from across the country.
Citizen Journalists: Planning on writing about May Day events here at myFDL? Tag your post “MAY DAY” or email it to me at brian@firedoglake.com and I’ll make sure it gets on our coverage page.
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Here is an exhautively complete list of Austin May Day events. Be there if you can. I’ll be liveblogging if possible from the day here & on my blog.
Thanks, Kit. Folks should also be aware of this great resource Sam found the other day: Occupy Streams, a collection of Occupy livestreams from across the world:
http://occupystreams.org/
Hot diggity! Thanks, Brian and Kit. Those of who can’t participate directly will be watching and hoping for the best, I’m sure.
Here’s a great FB group, Occupy Streamers, Brian…! ;-)
Occupy Hilo will livestream our Lei Day festivities…!
Should be an exciting day. Hoping I get to see some of the action myself – there’s a lot of May Day graffiti in my neck of Brooklyn, so maybe there will be some actions out here, too.
Nice, I hadn’t known about that Facebook group. What do you guys have planned? “Lei Day” – love it.
This is a good start. May Day is so much better than Labour Day to demonstrate support for working people. Labour Day is hot dogs and beer. May Day is for people.
Wendy, I know everyone can’t take to the streets but I think everyone can participate somehow. Honor the day wherever you are :) I’m going to put a bit about this in tonight’s water cooler.
Tomorrow, no corporate mass media outlets will announce that it is May Day. Most people who show up to work will have no idea, either, and never knew what May Day is as the public education system isn’t really allowed to teach history except as suits the richest members of society.
Here’s our FB event page, Brian…!
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Lookin’ forward to it, Kit. I’ve been thinkin’ about it, discussin’ it with Mr. wendydavis (who is gone, and with my car, lol!) for weeks now.
Feelin’ (as hotdog so comically put it) ‘lame in lameville’). The name of my town is Spanish for the plural of lame. Purdy funny altogether.
Occupy Mancos, CO!
I told ‘em at work I wouldn’t be there tomorrow. No argument.
I tried that and it didn’t work ;)
-altho I promise, no housework.
I wish I was in a position to take off work. It isn’t in the cards though. Let the accusations of corporatist shill and fascist begin.
Don’t be silly, Margaret. We all know how hard-won a job was for you! My stars, no one here would ever want you to risk getting fired.
You serve the principles of May Day in so many other ways. Come to think of it, knowing your predicament eases mine a bit, since I can’t get out and not do anything, lol!