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OCCUPY MAY 1ST GENERAL STRIKE

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Worldwide, May 1st is traditionally a ‘Workers’ day – a day of Labor Solidarity, and a public holiday. It’s a day to celebrate and march in support of im/migrant rights. In protest against the corruption of the worldwide marketplace, which has led to illegal foreclosures, mass unemployment, low wages, high taxes and a penalization of all those who do not own the ‘99%’ of the world’s resources, and in solidarity with the im/migrant movements of May 1st, we decided to declare May 1st, 2012 a People’s General Strike. Instead of calling upon unionized Labor to make a specific demand (illegal under Taft-Hartley), we are calling upon the people of the world to take this day away from school and the workplace, so that their absence makes their displeasure with this corrupt system be known.

Website: http://www.occupymay1st.org/
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Comment by Orsan Senalp on April 9, 2012 at 23:42

Comment by Orsan Senalp on April 9, 2012 at 23:41: Dear fellow workers, comrades,

Comment by Orsan Senalp on April 9, 2012 at 23:40: apr092012

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Comment by Orsan Senalp on April 9, 2012 at 23:37: [Occupy/Inidgnados] [May'12] #12M15M Newsletter – issue No 3 | via ...

Posted on April 9, 2012

Dear comrades,

Here goes!! Already the third issue of the Newsletter dedicated to offer updates form Assemblies around the world that are preparing actions next May 2012.

Please share and spread, paste it in your facebook groups, send it to all your mailing lists and invite others to subscribe through this link:http://eepurl.com/klvBr

PS: the NL is long, you don’t have to read it all at once!! take is slowly, you have one whole week to find out what your comrades are up to

Online version: http://www.globalmay.org/blog/item/59-occupy-inidgnados-may12-#12m1...

PLEASE pay attention to this invitation: what if we take a break together? for a moment, gather in an Open Space where everyone is welcome to contribute and learn and effectively boost the Global May we envision. The more we are and the more diverse our points of views and backgrounds, the richer the dialogue will be. Is this Saturday 14th.

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Comment by Orsan Senalp on April 7, 2012 at 10:32: A message from Gaye Yilmaz to all members of OCCUPY MAY 1ST GENERAL STRIKE on UnionBook!

At a time when only few weeks remain to May 1st 2012 I am so sorry to share another death news with you all...On 4th April Wednesday 5 workers put out pond of Karasu Dam in Erzurum city of Eastern Turkey. They tried to reach a power pole by driving a sea-bike. But the lake was full of broken ices and it was too hard to get the power pole by a simple bike. When they came to the middle of the lake sea-bike overset and five workers fall into the water full with ices. They resisted to survive for two hours by hoping a helicopter world bu sent to rescue them. However it was too costly to rent a helicopter for their employers that one of them was working for the State other four were working for a subcontractor firm. .. Beyond they failed to rescue workers, there was another fact in this event: why these five workers had to go to to the middle of the lake in order to localize the problem in electricty network? The only reason of that was the construction of this dam left many settlements, houses, streets and also electricity poles under the water... In sum, commodification of natural resources and land dispossession go hand in hand with dying of workers... Lets devote this May 1st to our comrades who dead because of work murders and reject to use of "health and safety" thetoric which is"death and precariousness of workers" in fact...