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While Media Looks for Encampments, Occupy Helps Build the Popular Resistance [View all]
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers - Dissident Voice, May 3rd, 2013
Yesterday, a media outlet contacted us to be on a show about how Occupy had “fizzled coming into this year’s May 1”. The media keeps looking for encampments or last year’s protests and is missing how popular resistance is growing and demonstrating all over the country.
This year there were actions in many cities on May Day. On Occupy Washington, DC we have reports from New York, NY, Denver, CO, Portland, OR and Richmond, VA as a few examples among many.
Allison Kilkenny, the movement writer for the Nation, got it right when she wrote, “Now is actually the time when the most exciting grassroots workers’ actions are taking place.” She points to the low-wage worker, fast food andnon-unionized workers actions as examples. As you will see in this weekly report there are many more examples of the growing popular resistance.
Kilkenny also points out that the FBI counter-terrorism unit in Washington State remains concerned and was interviewing activists about their plans for May Day. In the end, in Seattle, there was a mass peaceful march on immigration and an anti-capitalist march marred by police violence and property destruction.
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http://clearingthefogradio.org/while-media-looks-for-encampments-occupy-helps-build-the-popular-resistance/This year there were actions in many cities on May Day. On Occupy Washington, DC we have reports from New York, NY, Denver, CO, Portland, OR and Richmond, VA as a few examples among many.
Allison Kilkenny, the movement writer for the Nation, got it right when she wrote, “Now is actually the time when the most exciting grassroots workers’ actions are taking place.” She points to the low-wage worker, fast food andnon-unionized workers actions as examples. As you will see in this weekly report there are many more examples of the growing popular resistance.
Kilkenny also points out that the FBI counter-terrorism unit in Washington State remains concerned and was interviewing activists about their plans for May Day. In the end, in Seattle, there was a mass peaceful march on immigration and an anti-capitalist march marred by police violence and property destruction.
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