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Y! Big Story: Occupy actions on May Day

May Day, also known as International Workers' Day, is a holiday in 75 countries, except for the country where people may work the hardest of all. Occupy though has a notion to take the day for its Spring Reawakening. Its General's Strike Facebook page sums up the mission: "NO WORK - NO SCHOOL - NO [...]
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Ahead of the curve: The next 7 days

News : CNN's This Just In (last year)

Here is a look at some of the stories that CNN plans to follow this week: Occupy movement plans mass rallies for May Day Occupy organizers say they plan to use the labor movement's International Workers' Day - also known as May Day ... Read Post

Flooding hits north east as one month's rainfall of nearly TWO INCHES falls in just 24 hours... and there's no sign of warmer weather to come

News : The Coming Crisis (2 hours ago)

The elusive spring weather is still showing no signs of appearing in Britain, with the north of the country hit by torrential rain and flooding today.Heavy downpours turned a busy dual carriageway in Newcastle into a virtual river t... Read Post

Striking for Dummies: How to skip work to join Occupy Wall Street’s May 1 General Strike

News : The Coming Crisis (last year)

On May 1 (May Day), or the International Worker’s Day holiday, Occupy Wall Street will stage a general strike. Oddly, though, union workers suffer under the yolk of a piece of 1947 GOP legislation called the Taft-Hartley Act, which ... Read Post


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