Just one week until May Day, friends! (Which will also be my 28th birthday. A general strike: great birthday present, or best birthday present ever?) As Betsy mentioned below, the People’s Library will be out and about at Bryant Park, Madison Square Park (with Free University), and Union Square.
It’s going to be a big, exciting day. But, since the NYPD doesn’t like us to have nice things, we expect to see some of our friends end up in jail (again). If anyone out there has a few bucks to spare, we’d all really appreciate contributions to the OWS May Day Legal Expense Fund. That’s the bail fund, folks, and more money means more of our people bailed out, on May Day and in the future. After trials are complete, bail money circulates back into the fund, so it’s a gift that keeps giving.
And, if you just can’t wait for May Day to hit the streets, there are a few actions between now and then.
Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 25, ACT-UP is holding a 25th anniversary action, and calling for a financial transaction tax to raise the funds needed to end the global AIDS epidemic. Meet at City Hall at 11am for a rally and then march down towards Wall Street. ACT-UP has always rolled pretty hard, and lots of folks are coming from out of town, so it should be very exciting!
Also tomorrow, 4pm at Union Square, the Occupy Student Debt Campaign is having a mocking party to recognize that the combined student debt in the USA has topped $1trillion. Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir, Plus Brigades, and Billionaires for Debt will all be in attendance.
And then, this Friday will be the last weekly Spring Training before May Day; meet at Liberty at 2pm. See you in the streets!
Occupy Wall Street Library 