May Day

Donald Trump returns to NYC for the first time since his inauguration on Star Wars Day, May 4. Protests and rallies are springing up all over the city to “welcome” him back, and on May Day, too.

Here’s their press release in full:Occupy Guitarmy Rocks May Day 2013 for Immigrant Worker Justice First Anniversary of the Popular Ensemble that “Turns the Revolution up to 11” This Wednesday, May 1st, the Occupy Guitarmy will gather in Bryant Park to celebrate their one-year anniversary and kickoff May Day with the Immigrant Worker Justice Tour that will wind its way through midtown stopping at corporations that are exploiting their workers…

#Guitarmy w Tom morello leaving the park (via)”The Occupy movement that mobilized thousands of protestors last fall was mostly quiet through the winter in New York, as both the cold and the NYPD chased demonstrators out of their makeshift camp in Zuccotti Park…

May Day in Union Square (right now) (photo via Claire Bryant) today in NYC * May Day * SWEET May Day * 99 Comics for the 99% * Bang on a Can @ City Winery * Father Murphy @ The Stone * Les Bonhommes @ The Stone * Bird Dog, The Pawns @ Cake Shop * Commander Cody Band @ BB King’s * The Shins, Real Estate @ Terminal 5 * Zula, Netherfriends @ Death By Audio * Barry Manilow @ Radio City Music Hall * Lower Dens, Matteah Baim @ Mercury Lounge * Green Lotus Project, The Essex @ Brooklyn Bowl * Doe Paoro, Rewards, Larry Gus @ Cameo Gallery * Bob Schneider, Laura Warshauer @ Bowery Ballroom * The Ryan Scott Four, Yula Beeri @ Rockwood Music Hall * Suckers, Acrylics, Turn To Crime, Paper Twin @ Glasslands * Acid Mothers Temple, Phantom Family Halo, Clang Quartet @ Mercury Lounge * Hurricanes of Love, Invisible Circle, Con Tex, Fuckton @ Big Snow Buffalo Lodge * Charlene Kaye, Theo Katzman, Alicia Lemke, Jillette Johnson @ Gramercy Theatre * International Affairs, The Bowery Riots, Prospector, Pill-oh, Wigmaker’s Son, Julian & Ben @ Pianos * Jeremiah Birnbaum, John Craigie, Michael Daves, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Dani Elliott, Abby Payne, Aly Tadros @ Rockwood Music Hall * Tom Morello, Dan Deacon, Das Racist, Immortal Technique, Bobby Sanabria Band, JD Samson’s Men (Occupy Guitarmy) @ Union Square Park * Diamond Terrifier/Kid Millions Duo, Mikael Jorgensen of Wilco, Silver Process, Robert Peterson @ Zebulon Mikael Jorgensen of Wilco plays Zebulon tonight…

Over 135 cities are celebrating International Workers Day with a general strike, and not working, and playing music and stuff…”While American corporate media has focused on yet another stale election between Wall Street-financed candidates, Occupy has been organizing something extraordinary: the first truly nationwide General Strike in U…

JD Samson in MEN @ Webster Hall (more by Amanda Hatfield) Occupy Wall Street reports:Occupy Wall Street is excited to announce that on May Day, ‘JD Samson & Men‘ will join the likes of Tom Morello, Das Racist, Dan Deacon, Immortal Technique, Bobby Sanabria and others by performing at events throughout the city marking this national day of protest…

Tinariwen‘s new album Aman Iman is out now. Clips from it are playing in a player at their site. Listen to a feature at NPR. Catch the band of Tuareg rebels at Highline Ballroom in NYC tonight (Nov 27, 2007)…