Month: May 2012

Occupy actions planned on May Day are tied to the generations-long movement for the eight-hour day, to immigrant workers, to police brutality and repression of the labor movement.

By Jacob Remes / AlterNet / April 27, 2012 |

American general strikes—or rather, American calls for general strikes, like the one Occupy Los Angeles issued last December that has been endorsed by over 150 general assemblies—are tinged with nostalgia.

The last real general strike in this country, which is to say, the last general strike that shut down a city, was in Oakland, California in 1946—though journalist John Nichols has suggested that what we saw in Madison, Wisconsin last year was a sort of general strike.

Here is an up to date schedule and calendar of May Day actions and activities in San Diego:

• 11 am – May Day Rally at City College – 11 am

• 12 Noon- Stand in Solidarity with Janitors – Rally at Civic Center and March to Sherman Heights Market

SEIU-USWW will be hosting a rally 12 pm at the Civic Center in Downtown San Diego and will be marching to the Sherman Heights Farmer’s Market.

• 2:00 pm – Bank Action Against Bank of America and Wells Fargo – March from Civic Center to 5th & B Street

• 3:3o pm – Stand in Solidarity with Teachers at their Teacher Lay Off rally at Roosevelt Middle School in Balboa Park,

The San Diego Education Association is hosting this rally.

• 5:30 pm – Chicano Park Festival