Occupy May Day Protests, Stephen King On Taxing The Rich, Dow Sees Huge Surge

Tuesday, May 1, 2012 Occupy May Day Protests Bring Encampments Back To Zuccotti Park By Edith Honan NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters) - Occupy Wall Street sought to breathe fresh life into the movement that sparked a wave of nationwide protests against economic injustice eight months ago with May Day events across the United States on Tuesday and a call for a general strike that went unheeded. By mid-morning May 1, about 500 activists had gathered at Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan for a "pop-up encampment" emblematic of the movement's early days in lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park near the Wall Street financial district. Stephen King: 'Tough Sh*t... I'm Not Tired Of Talking About' Raising Taxes On The Rich Mark Gongloff: Alan Greenspan Says Something, People Listen For Some Reason One Tragic Consequence Of The Poor Economy Surprising Share Of Young People Are Struggling To Afford Basic Needs Dow Surges To Highest Close In More Than Four Years BLOG POSTS Robert Reich: The Tinder-Box Society May 1 may be a good day for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, but the future depends on the job prospects and wages of the average worker. Rebecca Solnit: Welcome to the 2012 Hunger Games: Sending Debt Peonage, Poverty, and Freaky Weather Into the Arena Collins's timely trilogy makes it clear that the 1%, having created a system of deeply embedded cruelty, should go, something highlighted by the surly defiance of heroine Katniss Everdeen who refuses to be disposed of. Dean Praetorius: Interconnected: Why Playing Nice Seals the Deal Google+ would like to satisfy these needs, but they're playing catch-up and actually proving that scratch is a poor place at which to start. Path might work with the big guys, but they don't add a significant value. So why bother with new networks? Dean Baker: Budget Bunk: The Old Pox on Both Your Houses Game The economy did not regain the jobs lost in the 2001 recession until 2005, and even then it was on the back of another unsustainable bubble, this one in the housing market. And we know how that one ended. Charles Gasparino: An October Surprise on Wall Street Coming this fall, as President Obama makes his final push for a second term, his Justice Department will finally give the public what it wants in the form of an arrest of a major Wall Street figure for his role in the financial crisis.

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