Via Occupy Wall Street:

Schedule of Events:

10:00am - 10:30am: Occu-Evolve Speakout Against Law Day @ NYU

10:30am - 11:00am: Young Workers: March with TWU! @ Bryant Park

11:00am - 2:30pm: Free University @ Copper Union

12:00pm - 2:00pm: Immigrant Worker Justice Tour

12:00pm - 4:00pm: May 1 Coalition Activities @ Union Square

12:00pm - 2:00pm: Occupy to Save the People's Post Office @ Washington Square Park

1:00pm - (?): Anti-Capitalist March @ Tompkins Square

2:30pm - 4:00pm: 99 Pickets Solidarity Swarm @ Union Square

3:00pm - 4:00pm: Citywide Student Convergence @ Peter Cooper Park

3:00pm - 5:00pm: Resistance Is Fertile: Love Bomb Seed Bombs

4:00pm - 5:30pm: Unified Rally for Immigrant Rights & Worker Rights @ Union Square

5:15pm - 7:00pm: Unified March for Immigrant & Worker Rights

6:00pm - 7:30pm: Rally for Labor & Citizen's Rights @ City Hall

7:00pm - 8:30pm: May Day People's Assembly / Asamblea del Pueblo del 1ero de Mayo @ Foley Square

7:30pm - 8:30pm: Occu-Evolve Kimani Gray Memorial Assembly @ Zuccotti Park

Additional Info:

http://maydaynyc.org/
http://occuevolve.com/upcoming-actions/
http://occupyguitarmy.tumblr.com/post/48872398039/may-day-schedule
http://may1.info/
https://www.facebook.com/events/448314865245294/
http://maydaynyc.tumblr.com/
http://actionresourcefund.org/

Our May Day NYC demonstrations and events are coming up on May 1st!

Check out details on all the ways to get involved, such as the schedule of the day and how to support OWS May Day activities financially.

You can also RSVP on Facebook to Occupy May Day NYC 2013, and peruse the litany of Facebook pages for specific May Day actions, including: The NYC Student May Day Convergence, the Immigrant Worker Justice Tour, the People’s Puppets Celebration of May Day, the Occupy May Day Guitarmy, the May Day Rally for Worker and Immigrant Rights, as well as the May Day People’s Assembly and the Kimani Gray Memorial City-Wide Assembly.

Hope to see you there:

http://maydaynyc.org/

-- from the ‘Your Inbox: Occupied’ team

Occupy in the News

OWS Alternative Banking picketed Citigroup’s Annual Shareholders meeting. Read their rationale for ‘Why Occupy the Citi?’ on the Alternative Banking NYCGA.net blog.

Check out the organizer guide on InterOccupy.net to help anyone organize and plan actions this spring, put together by Occupy The Economy in collaboration with the upcoming Occupy Love film.

Reported in Forbes, SEC commissioner Luis Aguilar thinks that investors should be able to sue their investment advisors: “In light of the SEC’s actions to shut out investors’ voices...it is now more important than ever that defrauded investors have the ability to seek redress against those who participate in defrauding them.”

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Rachel Maddow reports on Occupy Wall Street's The Illuminator and the Light Brigade's messages to Boston.

May Day 2013 is fast approaching. This is a day to celebrate and further the struggles of the 99% by coming together to support immigrant and worker struggles, and fight the injustices of the 1%.

Learn more about the plethora of May Day events and actions in store:

http://maydaynyc.org/

Occupiers took part in May Day en masse last year, and it was quite an amazing occasion. Check out our media roundup from last May Day for a reminder, and get ready!

-- from the ‘Your Inbox: Occupied’ team

Featured Occu-Project

This week, NYC’s own beloved Illuminator, the “spectacularization machine” and mobile instrument of dialogue and inspiration, found its services in extreme demand. Back in use after a contentious custody dispute, as well as after being targeted by the Intelligence Division of the NYPD for lighting up Mayor Bloomberg’s home, the Illuminator joined other members of the Light Brigade coast to coast to project their dissatisfaction with corporate tax dodgers on banks and overpasses across the country. Here’s the OWS Light Brigade on Twitter.

The amazing folks who were responsible for illuminating the foul recesses of tax dodging corporations this week also took it into their hands to make manifest what all of New York City was feeling about our sister city, Boston. In a moving series of light projections, they sent our love and thoughts to our neighbor. NYC does indeed love Boston!

Occupy in the News

The ‘Brooklyn loves Boston’ projections received major media coverage, including theatlanticwire.com, thehuffingtonpost.com, The Rachel Maddow Show and Today.

Occupywallstreet.net covers the national network of Light Brigades and their actions leading up to tax day.

Check out the fantastic footage of the Tax Evaders game projected on banks across the country.

Watch video and analyis on OccupyWallStreet.net of an interesting and timely panel discussion on how to create and share videos of great activism from the recent Organizing NY conference. A diverse group of Occupy media makers took part, discussing topics such as the attributes of an engaging and “hyper-shareable” video, what you need to know to avoid problems while filming at actions, as well as a how disseminating media is activism in and of itself.

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Since their first issue in December 2011, Tidal has made it their practice to give name to our struggle, wrestling with the big ideas that propel us into the streets, with what we should do when we get there, and with where there in fact is.

This Friday, the folks at Occupy Theory will release their fourth issue of the magazine, featuring original pieces by organizers of Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Sandy, Strike Debt and Free University. Join them that night for conversation as we move together towards the empowerment that greater clarity and the free exchange of ideas can bring.

-- from the ‘Your Inbox: Occupied’ team

Occupy in the News

Jenna Pope documented last Sunday’s Forward on Climate Rally. Beautiful sights--the vistas of activists in D.C. to make their voices heard about climate change--beautifully captured.

Kevin Gosztola writes at FireDogLake’s The Dissenter blog about the recent history of climate change actions and points out just how high the stakes are. Our only hope to defeat the monstrosity of the Keystone XL Pipeline is continued, passionate action, that is to say, “...if everyone demonstrating channeled the spirit of the Occupy movement...”

Les Leopold of the Huffington Post explains why “the raison d’etre for Occupy Wall Street is proving correct. Much of high finance is based on a ‘corrupt business plan.’” Proof of Wall Street’s corruption continues to mount, with ratings agencies on the take, money laundered for drug cartels, and rampant insider trading, among many other ethical and moral malignancies.

On occupywallstreet.net Heather Marsh argues for a society with no financial system at all, a currency-free system in which the endless cycle of excessive consumption and meaningless busywork is ended. The proof that this could work already exists. “With no financial incentives,” Marsh says, “the internet has managed to create collaborative efforts which have pushed the potential of society far beyond what could have been possible before the internet.”

On the OWS Direct Action Blog, Mark Adams gives us the push we need to meet, to talk, to plan for spring.

Revisit Liberty Plaza in full swing in Why We Occupy, an open-source book of interviews gathered in the park in 2011. See the park grow and change in real-time through the heartfelt words of the participants.

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[Tony Dokoupil reports on the little-known rules the government can use to shut down phone networks.]

According to the Daily Beast on Wednesday, Chicago law enforcement officials could shut down cell phone networks as part of their "security" operation in Chicago during the NATO summit.

Reporter Tony Dokoupil writes "Much of the cat-and-mouse game will be technological, with people in the streets wielding smartphones to coordinate actions and publicize what's happening, while law enforcement mulls whether to take the power of those phones away—disrupting service in the name of public safety."

While the tactic is usually associated with digital dictators abroad—and the Obama administration has sharply criticized such interruptions, even proposing sanctions against countries that curb their peoples' wireless freedom—shutdowns are a creeping American phenomenon as well.

Often a perfectly legal one.

Not only do the FBI and Secret Service have standing authority to jam signals, but they along with state and local authorities can also push for the shutdown of cell towers, thanks to a little-known legacy of the Bush administration: "Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) 303," which lays out the nation's official "Emergency Wireless Protocols."

“It’s the nature of law enforcement to push the envelope… It’s act first and litigate second.”

We've certainly seen this "act first" move in play more often than not during Occupy Wall Street protests alone. Dokoupil also writes that "Rumors of cellphone jamming also swirled around the Occupy protests in New York earlier this month; five people told The Daily Beast that they struggled to send photos, tweets, and basic text messages." It wouldn't be shocking, if the rumors are true, after all we've witnessed at the NYC protests and rallies. Cell phone jamming as a possibility during the NATO summit shouldn't really be a question at this point. Expect it.

Get Ready to Fight for #AnotherNYC May 10th to 15th. Another world is possible. Starting this Thursday May 10th, the week is centered around the theme of envisioning alternatives to austerity in NYC and the world over and each day of the week takes on an issue being effected by auserity measures from housing and human services (5/11) to Food and Health (5/12) to Stop and Frisk War and Immigration (5/13) to Education (5/14) to Banks (5/15) and is being put together by the folks who worked on the May 12th campaign last year, NYC Community Labor and Occupy Wall Street coalition.

More on each day's actions as plans are finalized, and in the meantime, enjoy the epic video footage of actions the coalitions have done in the past year.