From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/story/155182/may_day%27s_radical_history%3A_what_occupy_is_fighting_for_this_may_1st_/ 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 April 27, 2012 American general strikes—or rather, American calls for general strikes, like the one Occupy Los Angeles issued last December [...]
