Off the release of his new publication, OCCUPY (Occupied Media Pamphlet Series), Laura Flanders (GRITtv) sat down with MIT professor Noam Chomsky to reflect on the grim state of America, and the role activists have to play in turning it around.

Fatster compiles links and stories with news about Occupy Wall Street, home ownership, pension funds, US manufacturing, fracking regulations, babies born addicted, Rupert Murdoch, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Mother Jones and more.

Dustin Slaughter continues FDL’s live blogging of the May Day events around the country, with the latest links and videos. For additional videos as specific locations, check at the many May Day posts over at MyFDL.

Firedoglake is continues liveblogging all the May Day actions involving the Occupy movement. Check for updates from around the country.

May Day has traditionally been known as a day of mass workers’ strikes – otherwise known as the General Strike. But in an economy where, by some estimates, the unemployment rate hovers at close to 13%, and many Americans are precariously underemployed, how will the Occupy movement redefine what a General Strike looks like? Dustin M. Slaughter and I will be taking turns live blogging May Day.

[Editor's Note: Be Here or Be Square. Check out FDL's May Day 2012 coverage page. Brian Sonenstein has more on May Day 2012 at Firedoglake.]

May Day, a holiday created in part to commemorate the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago, Illinois, has become a global celebration in almost every country except, ironically, the United States.

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My name is John Washington from Occupy Buffalo and I will now be hosting the weekly Occupy Supply Webinars. As an Occupier I can bring a new perspective to the Occupy Supply Webinar. Guided by my experience with Occupy Buffalo I hope these webniars can become an online skill share for organizers around the country.

An order against Occupy Wall Street has been signed by the superintendent of the National Park Service in Washington, DC. The order is likely to result in the removal of protesters, who have been demonstrating on the Federal Hall steps on Wall Street. The protesters moved there after the NYPD cracked down their “sleepful protest” on the sidewalks, which was legal but deemed an unlawful assembly by police.

Protesters from Occupy Wall Street and attorneys from civil and human rights groups filed a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request for information on the policies the New York Police Department (NYPD) is using and has used to control and handle Occupy demonstrations since the movement grew in Zuccotti Park last September.

Tonight at 8pm eastern, Occupy Supply will be hosting a free, online discussion titled, “Beyond Signs & Flyers: Media and Marketing for the Occupy Movement.” Guest presenters include Andrew Boyd, Adam Lansky and Morgan Burke-Beyers. You can register for tonight’s free session here.