05-01-2012, 09:18 AM
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OWS: GENERAL STRIKE at 08:00. No Work, School, or Shopping. All out in the streets!
Seems OWS members decided they were less interested in getting wet hanging out in parks today, and more interested in staying home, playing COD, and having their mothers make them sandwiches.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Occupy Wall Street will join labor groups for a day of protests on Tuesday to mark International Workers Day and to try to breathe fresh life into the movement that sparked a wave of nationwide protests against economic injustice eight months ago.
Scheduled actions ranged from a "pop-up encampment" in a New York City park to a promise to "occupy" San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
A text message alert broadcast late Monday from an Occupy Wall Street address said: "All civilians stand by for GENERAL STRIKE at 08:00. No Work, School, or Shopping. All out in the streets!"
Activities were set to kick off early in New York at Bryant Park in midtown, where protesters plan to set up an encampment emblematic of the movement's early days in lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park near the Wall Street financial district.
But, as a light morning rain fell on the city, the park was largely empty, populated by a handful of police officers and half a dozen maintenance workers in yellow rain slickers who were emptying trash cans. About a dozen people milled about at a pair of coffee kiosks at the corner of 42nd Street and 6th Avenue, just outside the park.
Across the street, the new Bank of America tower was encircled by steel crowd control barricades and police were stationed at each the building's entrances. The building is one of six bank locations protesters planned to target Tuesday.
Later, activists planned to join organized labor for a march starting at Union Square. Some in New York have vowed to disrupt commuter traffic, but Occupy said it would not take part.
In California, Occupy Oakland has called for protesters to "occupy" the Golden Gate Bridge in a show of solidarity with bridge workers engaged in a contract dispute over wages and benefits.
Police in New York declined to say if any unusual security precautions were planned, but the city's financial community was making preparations. At the Deutsche Bank building in lower Manhattan, the atrium used for much of the winter as an Occupy meeting spot will be closed to the public on May 1.
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