[Vision2020] Institute for Public Accuracy: 7, 000 Occupy Arrests: Return of May Day

[Ted Moffett]

Institute for Public Accuracy
980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045
(202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa at accuracy.org
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Thursday, May 3, 2012

* 7,000 Occupy Arrests * Return of May Day

CHRIS ERNESTO, chris at stpeteforpeace.org, http://OccupyArrests.com
Ernesto is with OccupyArrests.com which just released these findings: "With
the May Day arrests of at least 116 people at Occupy protests around the
country, there have now been a minimum of 7,106 Occupy arrests in 114
cities across the United States since the Occupy movement began in New York
on September 17, 2011."

HEIDI BOGHOSIAN, director at nlg.org, http://www.nlg.org
Director of the National Lawyers Guild and author of the forthcoming book,
"Spying on Democracy, Protest and Dissent in the New Era of Government
Surveillance," Boghosian said today: "The piling on of Occupy arrests can
be seen as a barometer of this government's intolerance for the First
Amendment. Aggressive policing tactics, including frequent gratuitous
assaults on protesters and bystanders, are making our parks and streets
hostile to the Constitution."

JOHN KNEFEL, johnknefel at gmail.com, https://twitter.com/#!/johnknefel
Knefel can address media coverage of May Day and the Occupy protests. He
wrote "Bored With Occupy -- and Inequality: Class issues fade along with
protest coverage" in the current issue of the media watch group FAIR's
magazine Extra! http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4533-

FAIR recently posted two additional pieces on May Day coverage: "May Day
Media" and "Fox Host Leaps to Link Occupy to White Powder Mailings."
http://www.fair.org/blog

MARINA SITRIN, marina.sitrin at gmail.com, http://marinasitrin.com
Sitrin wrote the piece "May Day 2012 -- A Success Before it Began in the
U.S.," which states: "We succeeded before we began. May Day has been
retaken in the U.S. We are now again a part of the rest of the globe --
where May Day is one where we celebrate our power -- people’s power -- that
of workers, precarious and unionized, immigrants and migrants, radicals of
all sorts, from the anarchist to the democratic socialist. People around
the world were talking about May Day in the U.S. before May Day began. And
now, those of us here in the U.S., have begun something new, something that
is old, and yet has been reinvented ... the future of which is still being
determined, as so many things are in our new movements. But the question is
again posed – as with democracy and power."
http://uninomade.org/may-day-2012-a-success-before-it-began-in-the-us

Sitrin is co-author of the forthcoming "May Day: The Secret Rendezvous,"
which is part of the "Occupied Media" pamphlet series from Zuccotti Park
Press. See was on the recent IPA news release "May Day Is Coming Home."
http://www.accuracy.org/release/may-day-is-coming-home

See video "May Day Protests Around the World Pt.1"
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=8272

For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
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