No Work, No Shopping, Occupy Everywhere: May Day on OWS, Immigration, Labor Protests with Chris Hedges

with Chris Hedges
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May 1, 2012

Early Afternoon - May Day NYC Activities

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DemocracyNow.org – 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 Magazine and a key facilitator of the Occupy movement; Marina Sitrin, author of “Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina” and a member of Occupy’s legal working group; and Teresa Gutierrez, of the May 1st Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights. We also get an update from protests on the streets of New York City from Ryan Devereaux, former Democracy Now! correspondent, now with The Guardian.

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Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch: May 1st and an Independent Workers Movement

International Workers Day march in Minneapolis

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Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin: Occupiers and union activists should build class organizations that challenge for power.

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