All over the world, May 1st is
celebrated as International Workers Day. Yesterday, May Day also marked
the reemergence of the Occupy movement, with events in cities all over
America. AlterNet's reporters were in the field -- here are their
dispatches from New York and the Bay Area.
Midtown NYC, morning
-- Sarah Jaffe
Midtown
is a great place for chanting; your voice echoes off the tall buildings
and you can hear it blocks away. Even better for marching bands, bells
and whistles. There may not actually be 99 pickets, but midtown
Manhattan is clogged with them in the morning, and they're inside the
heads of the people on the street--I walk past a couple discussing our
"cruel," unequal society as I hurry from picket to picket.
I
made it to Bryant Park a few minutes after eight in a haze of rain, and
found a crowd of around a hundred huddled under their umbrellas or the
ones at tables in the park. The Rude Mechanical Orchestra were clustered
around their instruments but not playing, and Occupiers chatted with
one another.
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