May Day 2012: Love in a Hopeless Place? May Day 2012: Love in a Hopeless Place?
May Day in New York was chaotic, creative and diffuse. Was it a glimpse of what’s to come? Or a the wreckage of what’s left on the left?
May 3, 2012 / Blog / Laura Flanders
May Day Protests in Europe May Day Protests in Europe
Across Europe May Day brought out demonstrators, strikers and even some picnickers marking the labor movement celebration and demanding an end to the austerity agenda sweeping th...
May 2, 2012 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
Tens of Thousands March in Oakland, New York for May Day Tens of Thousands March in Oakland, New York for May Day
Occupy Wall Street, unions and immigrants rights groups collaborated in massive protests around the world on Tuesday, though no one would know that from the establishment media.
May 2, 2012 / Blog / Allison Kilkenny
End the Cover-Up at Walmart End the Cover-Up at Walmart
Join the call from Walmart workers for a thorough and accountable investigation into the company's reported cover-up of bribery in its Mexico operations.
May 2, 2012 / Take Action / NationAction
Free Pussy Riot Free Pussy Riot
A feminist punk band rocks Russian politics and the Orthodox Church.
May 2, 2012 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
May Day 2012, New York City May Day 2012, New York City
Footage from New York City's massive May Day protests.
May 1, 2012 / Video / Francis Reynolds
NYU Kicks Off May Day With Bobst Picket Against 2031 NYU Kicks Off May Day With Bobst Picket Against 2031
The group expressed their opposition to NYU’s 2031 plan, which its opponents characterize as aggressive real estate expansion that threatens the historic character of the Vi...
May 1, 2012 / StudentNation / Brett Chamberlin
Memory and the May Day Martyrs Memory and the May Day Martyrs
May Day, we must remember, was a holiday written in blood.
May 1, 2012 / Blog / Dave Zirin
Welcome to the 2012 Hunger Games Welcome to the 2012 Hunger Games
Sending debt peonage, poverty and freaky weather into the arena.
May 1, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Solnit
May Day Warning From the University of California President: ‘Avoid All Protests’ May Day Warning From the University of California President: ‘Avoid All Protests’
The May Day danger seems to rank with Fukushima’s nuclear meltdown.
May 1, 2012 / Blog / Jon Wiener