May 1st is traditionally an international day of struggle for labor rights and a celebration of workers. In light of the continued oppression of the 99% as a whole in the form of foreclosures, mass unemployment, low wages, racial, gender, and sexual discrimination, environmental destruction, and restriction on public assembly and speech, we echo the call for 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.” (www.occupymay1st.org)
