The Occupy Movement has revived May Day. For far too many years, this holiday, which was of course also a solidarity-building occasion, has been ignored by the US labor movement. Ironic, given the fact that May Day actually began in the US. >>

Today I walked through Union Square, which is filled with tables distributing information for Occupy May Day. There's a very exciting series of events planned, as well as an immense amount of wonderful cultural production. The radicalism of the various booklets I picked up was so inspiring, with articles about the ecological crisis, resistance to foreclosure, the international military industrial complex, etc. >>

Why do we strike on May Day? What is that strike? We strike in solidarity with global labor, our own histories and with each other. The action of striking is not just a withdrawal of labor but what Marina Sitrin calls "striking new relationships." The actions of refusal to play the part expected of us, in whatever way we can, and imagining other ways of relating to each other are what will constitute a day of generally striking, a striking day. >>

"What does it mean to be uninvited?" This is the question Benjamin Buchloh posed in response to the work of Christopher D'Arcangelo exhibited at Artists Space in October 2011. D'Arcangelo created unauthorized anarchist interventions into the gallery and erased his name from its exhibition records in order to reject the systemic circulation of artwork as capital in the 1970's. In his commentary, Buchloh decried the "hidden violence inherent in display and cultural values" and lauded Arcangelo for "re-radicalizing the Duchampian principle that anyone can bring anything at anytime into a gallery space." >>

It has been through my participation in Occupy that I've first come to feel my citizenship, not in the narrow national sense, but in a broader sense of intentional political subjectivity in the world. Through my adult life I've voted, marched, worked for an economic justice NGO, and read/written/thought about capitalism in particular during my PhD and its immediate aftermath. But the sustained political Q & A that participation in Occupy has demanded of me - what does it mean not only to recognize the systemic and historical character of our economic system but also to act on it, daily? - has engendered in me and others I've spoken to a certain experience of embodied citizenship that I hadn't felt... >>