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Report on May Day, NYC, from OWS
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May 3, 2013, 10:10:00 PM5/3/13
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The May Day celebrations here in NYC were full of joy!
To give you just a taste of what transpired, many Occupiers helped
organize and took part in a Free University in Cooper Square Park,
outside of Cooper Union, the art school besieged by their greedy and
inept Trustees who have decided to charge tuition for the first time
since its founding, against the express conditions under which Peter
Cooper set up the school. Courses included “Organizing a NYC Student
Movement,” “Understanding Basic Economics and Finance,” “Imagining a
Student-Worker Run University,” “Climate Debt/Climate Justice,” and
“Building a Commons in NYC.”
[ Recently, the trustees of Cooper Union, which was free to all
for 154 years, having wasted the school's money and gone broke,
decided to start charging tuition ($19,000 per year) against the
express wishes of the founder, Peter Cooper. We have probably
not heard the last of this, either in the courts or in the streets. ]
The OWS Screenprinters Coop were busy at work in Union Square during the
May Day rally, screenprinting t-shirts and upcycled materials brought by
the public. ...
Want more May Day coverage?
Check out this piece on the Guitarmy with video and songs to play in your
community, and read on below!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?
v=2&c=s8m1GCezIJjzGuxC4rgZ8Fl63Y3%2FRj0R
-- from the ‘Your Inbox: Occupied’ team
Watch these ‘Vines’ for Visuals of OWS at #MayDayNYC
A taste of OWS May Day activities in Union Square
https://vine.co/v/bQmQLMwFewV
Sandy Survivors and Occupy Sandy leading a chant
https://vine.co/v/bQm0wDV79O9
The People’s Puppets march down Broadway
https://vine.co/v/bQKptAOKiig
May Day in the News
May Day Protests: Occupy Sandy's Fight to Restore New York is Still Going
Strong
Occupy Wall Street, Immigration Rights Activists Carry Messages To City
Hall
May Day Protests Hit Greece, Spain, Turkey, Bangladesh And Tokyo
To give you just a taste of what transpired, many Occupiers helped
organize and took part in a Free University in Cooper Square Park,
outside of Cooper Union, the art school besieged by their greedy and
inept Trustees who have decided to charge tuition for the first time
since its founding, against the express conditions under which Peter
Cooper set up the school. Courses included “Organizing a NYC Student
Movement,” “Understanding Basic Economics and Finance,” “Imagining a
Student-Worker Run University,” “Climate Debt/Climate Justice,” and
“Building a Commons in NYC.”
[ Recently, the trustees of Cooper Union, which was free to all
for 154 years, having wasted the school's money and gone broke,
decided to start charging tuition ($19,000 per year) against the
express wishes of the founder, Peter Cooper. We have probably
not heard the last of this, either in the courts or in the streets. ]
The OWS Screenprinters Coop were busy at work in Union Square during the
May Day rally, screenprinting t-shirts and upcycled materials brought by
the public. ...
Want more May Day coverage?
Check out this piece on the Guitarmy with video and songs to play in your
community, and read on below!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?
v=2&c=s8m1GCezIJjzGuxC4rgZ8Fl63Y3%2FRj0R
-- from the ‘Your Inbox: Occupied’ team
Watch these ‘Vines’ for Visuals of OWS at #MayDayNYC
A taste of OWS May Day activities in Union Square
https://vine.co/v/bQmQLMwFewV
Sandy Survivors and Occupy Sandy leading a chant
https://vine.co/v/bQm0wDV79O9
The People’s Puppets march down Broadway
https://vine.co/v/bQKptAOKiig
May Day in the News
May Day Protests: Occupy Sandy's Fight to Restore New York is Still Going
Strong
Occupy Wall Street, Immigration Rights Activists Carry Messages To City
Hall
May Day Protests Hit Greece, Spain, Turkey, Bangladesh And Tokyo
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