We’re two days out. The General Strike is nearly upon us and the symptoms of apprehension are visible in all of us. Finger nails bitten down to the nail bed, jumpiness around the NYPD that slightly resembles hup, maniacal outbursts of Officer Winski, and tight circles of activists chain smoking cigarettes in a fast-paced fervor [...]
The Final Spring Training is here! It’s been 6 weeks of training in street tactics. We’ve learned how to creatively move and communicate together as a unit, and disperse and swarm to reach a target. Along the way, we’ve built community of trust by practicing together. And we’ve rung the People’s Gong, a call to action, [...]
As we approach May 1,we will be setting up 99 Picket Lines to expose, disrupt, and shut down the 1% who rule our city. This is an opportunity to fight back against austerity, union busting, the attacks on immigrant rights and the entire system of the 1% rule with a tactic and framework that is [...]
Propaganda: Download and print posters, fliers, zines, and more at http://occuprint.org/ and http://maydaynyc.tumblr.com and post them around your neighborhood; give them out to your friends, family, and co-workers; or bring them to community based organizations or local businesses and ask them to post them in their windows or leave a visible stack for members or [...]
From MayDayNYC.org, MAY DAY IN NYC: Reading the history of May Day in NYC is like taking a whirlwind tour through America in the modern age. May Day NYC is a story of ebbs and flows and rapidly shifting political terrains; a story of oscillations between brutal police repression and breathtaking exhibitions of collective [...]
Testimony What happened yesterday words cannot describe… The brutality of police repression units cannot be put into words. In these few lines I will do my best to narrate what I witnessed first hand, along with at least 500.000 of my co-citizens. Early afternoon around 18:00. Ermou St is the most famous pedestrian shopping road, [...]