mold free blood video for your media project c.d.o. don carty dot com. rallying in spring protesting for change it's may first and you know what that means for the big apple to bangladesh madrid to moscow people around the world are celebrating and we'll take you to the heart of the rallies including a stop at occupy wall street. it's tuesday may first seven pm and washington d.c. i'm having martin you're watching our t.v. no work no school no shopping no banking it's may day today marks the first nationwide strike and u.s. history it's a day that's been long dormant in the u.s.

but celebrated internationally since one thousand nine hundred nine now the occupy wall street movement has resurrected the workers' holiday calling it a day without the ninety nine percent made it actually originated in america in the one nine hundred century when capitalism ran amuck. needless to say the true origins of may day were long forgotten until now today there's a historic occupy general strike in over one hundred thirty five u.s. cities for the first time workers students immigrants and the unemployed are standing together for economic justice and it's happening globally and france thousands took to the streets demanding economic integration workers there are upset over policies many feel are strangling any hopes of economic recovery and this was the scene in indonesia some one hundred sixty one thousand people took part in events across the country occupy oakland things turned a little bit violent earlier today there was a standoff between the police and protesters where reportedly tear gas was used when protesters tried to take over can't fail café and seattle more news of the

standoff between police and the protesters there as well the seattle mayor actually issued an emergency declaration saying that he could take anything that was deemed weapons away from the protesters artie's web producer andrew blake is a new york city for more on the day's events andrew be able to happen and nothing much seems like things are really exciting over there i was wondering if that was going to go toward the spirit i was wondering if you could comment on you know how is it that a mayor can say that anything that's deemed a weapon i mean what about keys what about pens and pencils i mean that's all agree just let me tell you something i've had many cars in my time and you can do some serious damage. so yeah i think that's a little bit over the top it's kind of really weird to compare things with what's happening out on the west coast of what's happening out here on the east coast because as i told you earlier we have had some incidents out here earlier today but

from what i've seen from the luminary reports there's really been not a big to do here in new york city i'm actually standing as close as i can get right now it's a cody park which was the initial hub of occupy wall street and the. higher three for us far as i can see in either direction is more or less closed down to the public and there are a sion around every ten feet as far as i can see so we might see something here in new york but. maybe if it's just need king a couple cars that's going to be so so what's been going on so far andrew have there been any arrests what have you seen going down and what's to come. i have not personally seen any arrests yet today i know that they have existed though they do exist it's been a very long day abbie there have been arrested new york city. but right now it's nothing compared to what we're seeing on the west coast i have seen a couple incidences where protesters and law enforcement in manhattan will trying

to get on each other's nerves were defending changed i think cops get a little pushy with people i saw one incident earlier today just north of union square where cops started driving through on their cute little tutors and protesters didn't feel like getting out of street so the cops through the protesters granted their goal maybe eight nine ten miles an hour for the snow riding one thousand pound piece of metal so that is probably not the best best thing that you want to see especially so early in the day i know if we go back to how activities were last year during the height of the whole occupy movement things seemed more or less to be kind of a kind alright during the daytime no one once the sun set so to speak things started getting a little bit screwy so are we going to see that tonight i really don't know do i have my fingers crossed for blood i don't know about that either but i i have

a feeling that given how things have picked up momentum over the last few hours i wouldn't be surprised if things start to get crazy here in new york city let's hope that there they are optimistic and positive and everyone. happy like i've seen them throughout most of the day but i mean i'm surrounded by cop that are checking i.d.'s everywhere if you want to walk down alleys walk into buildings i can imagine that as the day progressed things aren't going to be that much fun for anyone well andrew you know as we know the n.y.p.d. has been coming out in the last couple weeks as the occupy wall street movement has tried to retake wall street they've been sleeping within their total legal parameter you know ten feet away from the entry of the doorway not blocking the entire sidewalk and yet the n.y.p.d. continues to make up laws randomly even though there's been legal observers telling them that they're within their rights so what do you think should happen i mean at this point they're pretty much making up different laws hour by hour it seems i

mean well the thing about the new york police department that there are a disgrace that no one likes them so they're going to do whatever they want and is it gets more and more ridiculous the people you're going to imagine are going to get upset with that you know i've a lot of words exchanged and so if you still can you hear me ok there is a building you can me i'm assuming you must've heard what i said but anyway yeah you know i really get that i have some heated exchange here in new york city between law enforcement and protesters nothing too crazy but yes they are blocking off streets i just had a very very animated discussion with jack the cab driver a really nice fellow from morocco who told me not as nice words that michael bloomberg and and why p.t. police commissioner ray kelly are our jerk well bloomberg has called them his own personal army and you know tensions are definitely high with the four point six million dollar donation that was received from j.p. morgan chase the n.y.p.d.

there's numerous lawsuits going on pending against the n.y.p.d. for their grievances. violations against the first amendment and against the civil disobedience acts. that's been happening and you're really quickly to wrap of the segment i'm wondering if you could mention or just describe your thoughts about the n.y.p.d. actually entering activists homes last night to try to get more information about what was going on today it's kind of ridiculous really it's a shame that the news broke so late yesterday evening that enough people weren't able to fully get the coverage that deserved but yeah i believe there was at least five incidents according to the new york civil liberties union where the n.y.p.d. did enter the homes of known activists questioned sometimes they answered with warrants that seemed kind of questionable clearly they're trying to make an example before things are going to get crazy but but going in a couple different homes isn't going to do anything we learned last time that after

the massive arrest on the brooklyn bridge last year they went and had to go to twitter for their assistance but this time they're taking a preemptive strike and if they can actually accomplish anything with that there would be a big surprise to me but as i've seen i know this might not be the best example you can see to many people where i'm standing right now but the numbers i saw down to union square madison square park bryant park today amazing there's going to be a lot of people down here any minute now it's rallying all throughout manhattan right now and i think we still only have a sampling of what the. how many people would you say are out there andrew at union square at around four o'clock today just marching down the street i heard one person say around nine eighty and that was early on in the march by my estimate i think at least two thousand that was just marching down the street over the course of a couple of minutes there i don't know if you're too familiar with new york city but you're in the. union square park pretty decent part of the land in the middle of manhattan and it was pretty difficult to move throughout most of it around four or

five o'clock. well definitely watching as things unfold that was our team web producer andrew blake. events been unfolding all day in new york artie's honest churkin a has been on the streets getting a feel of the may day protests here's a report. this is just the beginning of may day action in new york city by occupy wall street and already a major street was blocked off all of this traffic right here waiting to get through but they happen about two hundred fifty people blocking the street right now and you can only imagine how much bigger this is going to get considering the fact that tens of thousands of people are expected to join along with unions later on throughout the day challenging corporate person challenging the big ones igniting. city like if i was shut out. of the city i think it's really great to get everyone together in one place and see

the potential that we as individual humans can have to create new systems by just coming together and making things happen with office workers looking down on them this i'm. so sad the company inside the. immigrant workers one of the major issues may take taking place hundreds are right. where one of them. are everywhere getting ready for action and if we do remember of course that ever since occupy wall street kick started in september of last year as many as twenty one hundred people have so far already been arrested the think it's going to remain peaceful to . this main action yes but there's supposedly other groups around the city that maybe not so much this is a police attempt by occupy wall street to bring attention to the issues that. they're saying that ninety nine percent against the.

united states right now. except. right now we're seeing the crowds walking through avenue if not shy. bring it down we're seeing all these tribes here and. the market going to continue all the way down fifth avenue and homes out in the trucks more attention to the people walking by because we know of course that many of the tourists who come to new york city are going to be and having these people are staying there onto the streets to occupy their city and their homes the crowds are chanting a lot of mail that we've got sold out years after the bombing of a lot of there's been no real accountability street and among bankers in the united states that people are on the streets of the crowds to express their outrage when occupy wall street first started prayers were saying it will go away quickly but

these demonstrators here today believe that this is the second stage of the biggest protest america has seen in years they're seeing those critics who are saying that they would become a thing of the past very quickly saying this is proof that these people represent the working americans of the presidents and they will be the ones who end up making up is not determining america's future as they see churkin at r.t.e. new york. the may day occupy protesters are making their voices heard here in the nation's capital our christine went out for a long for part of the much. we are here in the caribbean to help hard and the mood here today is actually pretty celebrate tory right here i'm about to play a game of inequality pong room. trying to make it in the wine glass i think that will make me into the one percent there are also so many other things here going on today a series of workshops and teach and they're really focusing on the labor movement itself its history as well as workers' rights today now there are

a lot of things that we're hearing that are really go to some of the messages that we've heard time and time again on our coverage of occupy wall street things like the one percent versus the ninety nine percent and he quality a broken system from here even going as far to say that capitalism needs to be done away with and i believe that capitalism is all about money and they. and profit making and humanity has and each to their level and that's the need to open your view chaired by finishing by ending capitalism. us to not celebrate it here where the historical events happened that brought about an international workers day and it is is really sad that some of the people i spoke to say today is simply about coming back together winter is now over and a lot of people were very active in the movement active in pointing out things they really saw wrong with this country things that they hoped to fix they done is out and now it's time to get back to what we're working more and campaigns are building

relationships with local organizers and community members and this is kind of a day to celebrate what we've done so far you know we had to do in the future and what would mayday be without the neighbor whole trial they've got one of those here with you now looking around here at the park more than a hundred people came to the flawless turnout compared to what we find in that like the caucus and that's really and things that we saw in other countries around the world where through the fountain people came to the streets for this message just celebrate workers' rights and. try to improve them now those who gathered here today say they will go from here and they'll march all the way to the white house and i'll repeat that message for change and read in the dark i'm christine is now the fifth. still ahead here on our tier we're going to take a short break but we'll continue our may day coverage when we get back and ask wall street occupy protester just about where does the movement go from here.

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burned your eyes right right i mean it's like a derivative of actual pepper it's a food product essentially. much stronger than anything you'd be by. thousands of times stronger than any kind of. real headline. the problem with the mainstream media today is that. legally

disconnected from the viewers and from what actually matters to those viewers and so that's why young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back to t.v. . the occupy movement is time today's general strike in the u.s. to coincide with may day so what does this say about the relationship between the occupy movement in the labor movement and where does the occupy movement go from here here to discuss more as activists and writer just from new york studio jesse so we've all heard about the. foiled terror plot in cleveland about the bridge blow up is the f.b.i. looking for you for any terrorist plots i should or not i'm not. anybody important myself so i find it a little less will you know it is interesting that that is you know they're tying him to the occupy wall street movement really making not the forefront of that

headline just the where do you see the occupy movement going from here in light of all these federalized crackdowns and now you know finally may day do we have a reemergence of the occupy movement. i would hope so i mean look at the problems that we face in this country it's not like they're going away and part of the reason that we need an active occupy wall street movement is because our political leaders aren't addressing these problems either one party likes to blame the president for high unemployment when they have no plan whatsoever to address it whereas the democratic party is in work declaring recovery already taking place wall street recovered so it will trickle down to the rest of us eventually and i think with the dearth of reality in the political conversation america we need to be out in the street pressuring our political leaders to do something that benefits the working class people as opposed to something that benefits the rich and the rich first so you know we've seen with the n.y.p.d. making out these random laws and they have fiction theater going on every night at midnight and union square i mean what's going to happen after may day i mean people

are going to be on the street anymore and they're going to be a small group of people still doing these small scale actions and in the light of this police state force you would say what can happen really well i think that it's not an easy struggle but it's one that actually has to happen and i don't think you're going to see blake live in patients the way we had there in the fall just months liable but i would like to see large targeted protests against specific individuals who are frankly creating the problem whether it's a large financial institution these too big to fail corporations or even our government itself you know many of our elected officials simply are not doing their jobs if you consider their job to be fighting for regular people so i think the the movement going forward in ways that we have yet to conceive but it with the same intention each time applying pressure to the powerful and demanding a side that benefits all of us just the the majority the overwhelming majority of the occupy wall street movement across the nation has been remarkably peaceful

other than these very small select group of people who are breaking windows and such so why is the establishment so afraid of a bunch of peaceful people getting together in public space to discuss things. because they absolutely do not want to have this conversation you know i've had a couple people ask me about the meatheads out in ohio i have no idea what they were doing planning a plot of. blow up bridges only that now imagine if every time the press addressed the republican senatorial leadership imagine if they asked every single time about david vitter the louisiana senator who sleeps with prostitutes while wearing diapers if they brought that up every time they mention the republican party and their minority control of the senate it would be difficult to have a conversation going forward if you were a republican senator same thing for occupy instead of discussing the growing income inequality america the growing poverty the death of the middle class or the amazing wealth that the one percent now enjoy today they would rather talk about in the red some unrelated idiots out in ohio or whatever else might be going on the fact of

the matter is that the conversation we're having about the control that corporations have over government and the many different facets of society the mainstream media doesn't want to talk about it so they're just going to distract and troll and talk about anything else just i wanted to read a quote really quickly from noam chomsky who wrote about today's actions he said if you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend popular will you then have to eliminate the institutions what do you think about that quote i mean do you think that the institutions will bend popular will and if not what needs to happen for us to really make ourselves heard. at a certain point the system breaks down it just breaks down now our founding fathers intended that we should have a constitutional convention every few years they thought that the constitution is something that should be reviewed and updated i would like to see is citizens' constitutional convention even if it was kind of like a mach one just to have a large conversation now whether the functions of government changed to meet the needs of the people or not change is going to happen whether you like it or not

some people have dug their heels in since the president said that they one of them is the president so i think we need to really demand a major systemic change whether it's the way our financial institutions operate the way our campaign finance system works or a number of different pressing issues that are really weighing down the public today that change is going to happen whether it's in a little shift in a little nudge or spill you know a systemic change overnight it's going to happen in people in the street demanding it but how can it happen if both political parties are completely bought out by the same corporate establishment that we i mean the occupy movements fighting against it just seems really like a pipe in the sky idea to just say you know get money out of politics when it's so entrenched how is it possible this point to work within the institution and within the establishment to create this change unless you're working outside of it. well to me one thing that i really enjoy about occupy wall street is that it's a stark reminder that in order to participate in a democracy it's not once every two years where you go into about box you need to

be participating on every level that you have the more democracy the better so take grover norquist for it since he came up with his no tax pledge and he demands that each and every single republican and democrat is willing to do so signed his pledge to never raise taxes on the rich but what if we had something similar that on the other side what if we had a pledge where we went to the congressmen and said hey who do you stand work for who you work with the working class and the average person or the special interest that fund your campaigns maybe we should put these guys on the spot now some people within occupy wall street would say that's too reformist we need something more radical some people would say that's exactly need i'm not the one to judge that but i think it's one avenue that we can take among many that we should just rattle the system in a way that makes it work for us instead of just for the rich and obviously does this movement is not going away as a lot of people a lot of naysayers like to say that it was over the winter shut us down and all that looks like it's just just beginning jesse and i wanted to talk really briefly about nato and g eight

a lot of people in the occupy movement were saying that this was going to be an enormous pivotal point to really take you know the occupy movement in chicago and then you have this status and moving the g. eight to camp david i mean do you think that this is a trend that we're going to see to kind of squelch protests altogether. oh absolutely the one thing that the elite do not want is this conversation so they're going to move it into a place that's not easy to access for the average person you know let's remember after the events that took place in seattle in one thousand nine hundred nine lot of the g eight or i think it was was a g. twenty g. eight they moved to third world countries particularly third world countries that don't very highly value freedom of speech they don't want this conversation so it strikes me as no surprise that the g eight summit that was going to take place in chicago got moved again david it looks awfully bad for capitalism when you have to beat your citizens in order to make them except it doesn't. it does thanks thanks jessica. and activists and writer at daily kos and one definitely keep following

this conversation keep following the movement as it unfolds and we can't forget our friends on the west coast where the occupy movement has not been as peaceful as other actions and there are today clashes with police led to tear gas and arrests more to join us with updates of occupy oakland and occupy san francisco as joshua holland. joshua can you tell us about what happened today how did the standoff occur and why was tear gas fired because well it's been a rambling day of protests off the. i mean it's stock different protests today as far as i understand it's there let's start at once some police cars detached the main body your beliefs and in the middle of a bunch of protesters tear gas is reportedly. the climate system right now this morning and i'm.

mental health it's old but. it's been shut down and. there's a dozen police officers now standing stock for the moment a lot of. stopped. why did it seem like in oakland it's always the same story these militarized police crackdowns that are so much more harsh than anywhere else in the country i mean is it just what do you why do you think that is why is it so different in oakland than anywhere else. i think it's important to understand that tensions between.

protesters and not just the state is which. it's. still too tough just three after . bullets on him just things that tend to get. very little it's because police force you know when the police department shows up again. joshua we could definitely hear the high winds there and sirens cisco have actually from that area to you and i i have been numerous occupy rallies and can you just talk a little bit more about any arrests that have happened in either san francisco or oakland today can you elaborate on more on that. well i think it will get better. still like the biggest protest complaint it's got. so

as far as. the fourth of two arrests. that's not. going to happen. but there was one arrest. that was joshua holland senior writer and editor for alter net. and that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america or check out our website r.t. dot com slash usa you can also follow me on twitter at abby martin.

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