Continuing to shift the discussion from austerity to economic inequality, Occupy Wall Street and dozens of NY-based organizations join global days of action, May 10th-15thBeginning on May 10th and culminating on May 15th in a mass convergence at Times Square, NYC organizations and individuals from all across the city will join together in action around the many issues we face: from cuts in social services, to an austerity agenda that redistributes your tax revenue into private hands, to the financial institutions (that we bailed out) that continue to make record profits at our expense. Actions on May 12th and 15th are in conjunction with global calls for action–coinciding with coordinated protests across Europe and the Mediterranean. Watch the video here.
as you now NATO is holding a summit in chicago may 19-21. Occupy Chicago has planned several actions to highlight the local effects of NATO’s global policies. check chicagospring.org for up to date info, oroccupychi.org for more information.
> Comrads!
>
> After what I think was a huge triumph yesterday, I wake up today to find
> that (unsurprisingly) the mainstream media has decided to almost completely
> ignore our M1 celebrations, the huge mass of people that hit the streets,
> the series of protests, workshops, pickets and marches that took over the
> day and the tons of powerful and hopeful scenes that seem to signal the
> coming of a militant spring/summer. So, in true OWS fashion, we must be the
> change we wish to see, and flood the airspace with our media.
>
> Which is why we've decided to launch an *emergency campaign to collect
> testimonies, opinions and observations of all of those that took the
> streets yesterday* around the country to publish them on IndigNación (
> www.indig-nacion.org). We would like to turn this into an opportunity to
> turn our new platform into a real space of dialogue between what we know
> are very different perspectives within our community -- and I'm not talking
> exclusively of the Latino community. Although our content is exclusively in
> Spanish, we want to hear from everyone. Texts in English (or any other
> language, for that matter) will be translated and posted in both. Let's
> fill the silence of corporate media with the voices of the people!
>
> *PLEASE* take 15 minutes from your day today to write us at least a few
> sentences about what you saw, heard, thought or felt yesterday. Also,
> please share this email with all of your friends who were on the streets
> yesterday here in New York or in any part of the world, celebrating
> International Worker's Day. If you have photos or videos you want to share,
> we'd also love to see them. You can send all of your contributions to
> editores@indig-nacion.org and we ask that you please do it *TODAY if
> possible*.
>
> much love to you all and onwards!
>
> * www.indig-nacion.org*
>
> *¡Conéctate! *
> www.facebook.com/ows.indignacion
> @INDIG_NACION
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On May 6-9 people from across the country and world will be converging in Charlotte, NC, home of Bank of America’s Headquarters and their annual Shareholder meeting, to demand an end to their practices that are bankrupting our economy and wrecking our climate.
On the 12th of May we’re back on the street with a creative, non-violent, people’s demonstration. Progressively working towards the 15th of May in the people’s defense.
Este sábado 14 y el domingo 15, a las 20:00 horas (CET hora peninsular) vamos a celebrar 2 debates a través del servidor de Mumble “tomalplaza.net” para impulsar una tarea compartida: “Mayo Global: Un nuevo comienzo?”
Los temas específicos de debate serán establecidos por los participantes, quienes tendrán plena libertad y responsabilidad de elegir y debatir los temas que verdadera y apasionadamente nos interesan.
Faltando solo un mes para la primavera global de 2012, tenemos dos oportunidades para reunirnos con gente de diferentes recorridos de vida y lugares del mundo, y pensar juntos la historia que se escribiremos colectivamente en mayo de 2012. Trascendiendo las diferencias de idiomas, nuestros puntos de vista políticos y filosóficos y nuestra relación con esta ola de cambio, tendremos un espacio abierto donde dialogar, para construir juntos los cimientos de esos mundos posibles que anhelamos.
The world is changing faster and faster, and we are right on time to decide how we want that change to be. In recent years, thousands of people stepped forward, from words to action, launching numerous projects with the aim of creating the foundations of a fairer society: ecovillages, popular schools,
alternative media, “artivists“, hacktivists and “heartivists“, time banks, etc. Now is the time to share all these experiences and start building up something even bigger together.
(Jakarta, 2 March 2012) April 17 is the International Day of Peasant Struggle, commemorating the massacre of 19 peasants struggling for land and justice in Brazil in 1996. Every year on that day actions take place around the world in defence of peasants and small-scale farmers struggling for their rights.
* Transnational call to action in Frankfurt, May 16-19 * International solidarity in our common struggle *
We are calling for massive protests in Frankfurt this May against the crisis regime of the European Union. We are activists representing a multitude of movements and struggles from different European countries and elsewhere, who have risen up in the past months and years to protest the assaults on our freedoms, jobs and livelihoods that have become fiercely intensified in the global crisis. We have joined together and shared our struggles and experiences, and we have realized that in a multitude of local forms, we are fighting the same fight. Like never before, our movements are starting to strengthen each other: a truly transnational opposition is beginning to emerge.