Fwd: The Final Countdown: May Day 2012

[Stephen Marshall]

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Subject: The Final Countdown: May Day 2012
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:02:35 -0400
From: Zubeyda Akil <zube...@gmail.com>
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Greetings Comrades!

For the past four and a half months we have all been working tirelessly
to organize and build towards May Day, a day of massive economic
withdrawal and non-compliance. As many of you know, Occupy Wall Street
stands in solidarity with the calls for a general strike, a day without
the 99%, and asks 99%ers all over to not go to work or school but
instead take the streets! May Day will be a catalyzing moment in our
movement and beyond – the participation in strike, efforts bound by
solidarity, will display the instrumental power of the people and the
ability we have to build alternative, sustainable systems based on
reciprocity and voluntary association.

Please join us in our final organizing efforts and on May 1^st !


_Final Organizing Meetings:_

Coordination Spokescouncil – Wednesday April 25, 6PM @ 33 W 14^th Street

General Meeting – Saturday April 28, 1 PM @ 239 Thompson Street (Judson
Church)

Action Spokescouncil – Sunday April 29, 7PM @ 50 E 7^th Street (Middle
Collegiate Church)


Check the calendar <http://atrium.occupy.net/mayday/calendar> for
smaller May Day cluster meetings, open spaces for art fabrication, and
escalation actions!



_Ways to build up and participate on May 1^st :_

**Propaganda:** Download and print posters, fliers, zines, and more at
http://occuprint.org/ and http://maydaynyc.tumblr.com
<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 customers!

*Social Media:* Social media is the first stage of creating a
sustainable alternative media environment. Support user-generated media
sources by creating your own media/art on YOUR terms, not corporations!
Tweet using the hashtags #GeneralStrike #MayDayNYC & #M1GS. Submit to
various tumblrs
(http://whyistrike.tumblr.com/ andhttp://maydaynyc.tumblr.com/). Invite
your facebook friends to the May Day festivities:
https://www.facebook.com/events/327486667289414/

*May Day Arts/Call to Create:* On May 1st, 2012, everyone in New York
who leaves their house or looks out their window will see public art as
part of an historic MayDay celebration. Some of the projects underway
are the 1,000-player guitarmy, Occupy Dance, and OWS Poetry. Visit
http://call2create.org/ for details about where you can see them and how
you can participate in their creation.

*99 Pickets:* Got a particular loathsome corporation in mind that you’d
love to see shut down on May 1st? From 8am-2pm, up to 99 marches will
leave at scattered times from Bryant Park and hold pickets in front of
various government or corporate headquarters. Contact may...@nycga.net
<mailto:may...@nycga.net> to view a list of targets in midtown or come
to an Action Spokescouncil, Sundays at 7pm at 50 E 7th Street
http://atrium.occupy.net/mayday/node/114

*Free University:* The Free University is an open invitation to
educators around New York City to participate in May Day 2012. During
the day, lectures, workshops, skill-shares, and discussions will be held
— all open to the public. University professors will bring their classes
to the commons. http://maydaynyc.org/freeuniversity

*Really Really Free Market [RRFM] & Food:* RRFMs are temporary
capitalism-free, self-sustaining zones instituting the gift economy as
an alternative means of resource distribution. Bring clothes, books,
toys, tools, and other usable things for the market! For the food
tables, bring food, water, coffee, or any eating utensils (including
paltes, napkins, etc). Also, volunteer at Bryant Park or Union Square to
help run the RRFM or food tables and remind folks that the items are
really, really free.

*Jail Support:* It is reasonable to expect a massive amount of arrests
on the days leading up to and on May 1st itself. During the 7 months
(which included thousands of arrests) of Occupy Wall Street’s existence,
only a handful of hard working organizers have dedicated themselves to
doing jail support. Jail support includes communication with the
National Lawyers Guild, tracking comrades in the legal system, and
greeting released arrestees with food, water, cigarettes, and support.

*Mutual Fucking Aid:* Wherever you go on May 1, 2012 bring and share
your skills (like haircutting or medical knowledge) and services and
offer them up to folks for free! If you can’t come to the RRFM in NYC,
open a free store in your neighborhood or somehow otherwise explore the
excitement of mutually beneficial, voluntary exchange!

*Embrace Autonomy!:* During a general strike, we withdraw from
capitalism and instead spend our lives exploring the creative and
liberating aspects of a culture of resistance. Once you’ve taken the day
off, spend your time doing whatever it is that you love to do and make
it an act of protest! The options for various autonomous actions are
endless– organize a banner drop, employ a fare strike, disrupt
consumerism in the act. Use your creativity to decide on a symbolic or
instrumental action that you and friends would invest a portion of your
day into executing!


For more information on why we're striking, the history of may day, and
the schedule of actions lined up for may 1^st , visit Maydaynyc.org!

Please forward this email widely!!


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