Occupiers Hold a Slumber Party Near Union Square

Citing a judge's ruling that the First Amendment protected "public sleeping as a means of symbolic expression," protesters laid down their sleeping bags outside bank branches.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/occupiers-hold-a-slumber-party-near-union-square/

After the largest online protest in history, the Obama administration is still voicing support for SOPA.

Just the other day, the administration sent a letter to Congress to demonstrate their support for new internet censorship legislation. Victoria Espinel, Obama's so-called "copyright czar" just said: "We still need legislation for blocking foreign websites."

http://a.fightforthefuture.org/sign/obama-sopa/?akid=69.1301108.8JY2aJ&rd=1&t=6

May 1st, 2012 People’s General Strike

Worldwide, May 1st is traditionally a ‘Workers’ day – a day of Labor Solidarity, and a public holiday. It’s a day to celebrate and march in support of im/migrant rights. In protest against the corruption of the worldwide marketplace, which has led to illegal foreclosures, mass unemployment, low wages, high taxes and a penalization of all those who do not own the ‘99%’ of the world’s resources, and in solidarity with the im/migrant movements of May 1st, we decided to declare May 1st, 2012 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.

http://www.occupymay1st.org/

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Occupy Student Debt Campaign Day of Rage

Hosted by: Occupy Huntsville

https://www.facebook.com/events/371866546186934/

The goal of the Occupy Student Debt Campaign is to restore free public higher education in the US through a campaign of student debt refusal.

On April 25, 2012, student loan debt is due to surpass one trillion dollars. Please join us for a "day of rage" in mock celebration of this grim milestone at the big ass concrete slab on UAH Campus (#12 on this map: http://www.uah.edu/images/friends_visitors/color_map_large.png)