While Ellsberg is nonchalant when recalling his experience over those few days in early May, his fascinating tale of resistance to government shows that it was by no means an easy choice.
Tracing Labor Day’s conservative roots, we’re reminded that the holiday was established in 1894, by President Grover Cleveland “as a way to de-escalate class tension following the Pullman Strike, during which as many as ninety workers were gunned down by thousands of US Marshals serving at the pleasure of railway tycoon George Pullman, one of the time’s most hated industrial barons.”
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF1B3l2lu1s&w=560&h=315] Published on May 2, 2012 by ArtNotWarMedia The Occupy Guitarmy and Tom Morello perform for over 10,000 people gathered in Union Square for the May Day protest and march. Video produced by ARTNOTWAR.com Join Us! Subscribe to WAMMToday from our blog website and “Follow” us. riseuptimes.wordpress.com WAMMToday is now on Facebook! Check the WAMMToday page More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF1B3l2lu1s&w=560&h=315] Published on May 2, 2012 by ArtNotWarMedia The Occupy Guitarmy and Tom Morello perform for over 10,000 people gathered in Union Square for the May Day protest and march. Video produced by ARTNOTWAR.com Join Us! Subscribe to WAMMToday from our blog website and “Follow” us. riseuptimes.wordpress.com WAMMToday is now on Facebook! Check the WAMMToday page More
May Day Media Posted on 05/02/2012 by Peter Hart FAIR With Occupy Wall Street making its May Day comeback, what did the corporate media have to say? Take a look at the New York Times story (5/2/12), which was stuffed in the Metro section and focused on… well, take a look at the headline: About half of the article is More
May Day Media Posted on 05/02/2012 by Peter Hart FAIR With Occupy Wall Street making its May Day comeback, what did the corporate media have to say? Take a look at the New York Times story (5/2/12), which was stuffed in the Metro section and focused on… well, take a look at the headline: About half of the article is More
The New York Times, May 2nd – The Day After By Don Gato May 2, 2012 New York Times eXaminer Yesterday, May 1st—International Workers Day (and what Obama has cynically renamed a new national holiday called “Loyalty Day,” tailing red-baiting anti-communist Presidents of times past[i])—I was in New York City for “Occupy May More
May Day Minneapolis in Video and Picture Here are just a few of the many videos and photos from May Day in Minneapolis. Click here to watch the KSTP video Monday night in preparation for May Day. MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) Channel 5 OccupyMN protestors are expecting more people to turn out in support of the movement More
May Day By Noam Chomsky, Zuccotti Park Press | Op-Ed 30 April 2012 truthout (Image: Rich Black) 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 to erase its real meaning. For example, More
May Day By Noam Chomsky, Zuccotti Park Press | Op-Ed 30 April 2012 truthout (Image: Rich Black) 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 to erase its real meaning. For example, More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wTyQF3dgeU&w=560&h=315]Published on May 1, 2012 by democracynow 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 More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wTyQF3dgeU&w=560&h=315]Published on May 1, 2012 by democracynow 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 More
