NY unions, Occupiers to mark May Day

“The Occupy Wall Street has joined with all the major unions and labor unions in New York City and it is going to be quite a massive day of action, with actions all over the city, people demanding justice against Wall Street bankers and corporations,” said activist Caleb Maupin from the International Action Center in New York in a Saturday interview.

The event is expected to trigger a remarkable public participation as the Occupy movement has gained a significant momentum over the past five months, Maupin added.

Meanwhile, anti-corporatism protesters have begun spending the nights on sidewalks of the Wall Street, near the New York Stock Exchange and in front of banks.

The US has been grappling with an ongoing economic crisis which is America’s worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

The exacerbating economic conditions, corruption, poverty as well as social and economic inequality in the West has sparked the anti-capitalism Occupy movements in major cities across the US and other Western countries since September 2011.

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