May Day 2012

Who is planning to participate in May Day (this Tuesday) protests, events, walk-outs?

Ummmm...for what? Or against what?

A nice quiet Beltane observation for me.

I'm revoking your commie-librul membership card, Coyotemike

I'm participating in the protests. For too long has May Day held this country in the grip of tyranny.

wow, do people really not know about May day?

Same here!

Unfortunately, I have to actually return to work on May Day - but I'll do it with my usual 'fuck the man' attitude...

I know plenty of people who know about the protest.

Fact is, there are plenty of the 99% who can't afford to protest. Most of which have jobs that don't require degrees and are easily replaceable.

See, this is what I meant when I asked the question. I

May Day is more than "the protest." It's been International Worker's Day for about a century.

And I had never heard of that. I don't know why. But I hadn't. Now I have.

I hadn't heard of it either. Mostly we just hung baskets on doorknobs, knocked, then ran.

Hurray hurray it's the first of May, the outdoor fucking starts today!



On a more serious note, it will be a long time before the US makes much of May 1st. Perhaps when the metric system is adopted.

I'll be watching the parades and so on in Moscow tomorrow.

^Shitheads. Well smashing up peoples cars and businesses is a really quick way to lose support among the community (assuming it was ever there to begin with) and undermine the validity of the movement. Granted, they've always been considered a bit of a more radical outlier, but to go into someone else's town and wreak havoc, no bueno...

Proof that some of those kids don't know shit but think they do.

It would be good to know how many of the black clad, masked anarchist's who chose to usurp the Occupy mantle and riot in the ''Mission'' were in fact members of the Oakland PD and or FBI.

I suppose it's possible, but I'm more inclined to believe that it was just some overly zealous anarchists or opportunists. The behavior certainly doesn't chime with most of Occupy and deploying undercover provocateurs is not unknown among police tactics.

Still, Occupy Oakland sanitized their site following their call to join the "ruckus" turned violent so I'm thinking there may have been a more then just a few bad eggs in the bunch (the videos I saw certainly didn't seem to imply that the group were trying to distance themselves from the vandalism, but were whooping it up). From what I understand, a "black bloc" group splintered off after the initial, peaceful, gathering and went out on their own to engage in this stupid and pointless criminal activity. I'm kind of surprised that only one person was arrested (or at least that's what was reported), but maybe the police decided to let them go on their little rampage...




Assholes.