OccupYrCorner: From Earth Day to May Day

So many awesome things have been going on in OYC, let's break it down by event:

Earth Day, San Diego

OccupYrCorner, Women Occupy San Diego, and Occupy Encinitas had a table at this years Earth Day which was an enormous success! We had Occupiers from OSD and beyond helping us let everyone know "We're still here!" as we handed out 1,000s of non-GMO seed packets, gathered hundreds of signatures on petitions ranging from ending Corporate Personhood to GMO labeling to saving local landmarks from the 1%er wrecking ball.

We handed out tons of flyers, sold tons of badges, and informed the thousands at the event how political crookedness was bending the environment into a mess. Which was well-received at this years very politically charged Earth Day. We even mic-checked the Wal-Mart booth into leaving!

The badges that were sold were made a few days earlier at a OYC Badge-making party where we had a pile of unstoppable Occupiers help create over 500 badges to sell to the public for funds to be used for future events.

One very special Occupier, our friend Fish, was later that week sentenced to 90 days in jail for a misdemeanor... but really his crime was standing up for people's rights. Occupy did what it does best: repsond. Members of OSD and OYC have been working day and night to keep Fish informed through letters and postcards, well fed through commissary donations, and visited weekly. "An Injury to One is an Injury to All!"

Sidewalk March with Occupy City Heights for the World Beat Center

The next weekend we took to the streets for our second Sidewalk March: a sort of experiment on bringing our OYC message to all the corners of an area. The members of Occupy City Heights helped us map out a route, and after attending their GA we all walked through Farmers Markets, commercial areas, and public parks all around City Heights handing out hundreds of flyers about the institutional racism that is threatening one of San Diego's only multi-cultural landmarks, the World Beat Cultural Center.

Threatening to turn it and the Centro Cultural De La Raza into a parking lot, the Powers That Shouldn't Be in San Diego are trying to white-wash away any African, Asian, and Latino culture from the area. We wont stand for this injustice... so we march!

Sign the petition: http://chn.ge/savetheworldbeat

May Day 2102, San Diego

OccupYrCorner, Occupy San Diego, Women Occupy San Diego as well as many Unions for Janitors, Hotel Workers, Teachers, Taxi Drivers, and Students were invited to a full-day of events by the unstoppable Occupy San Diego Labor Solidarity Committee for this years May Day.

We literally marched all over downtown San Diego, standing up against unfair contracts, inhuman health care cuts, unbelievable education cuts, and over-bearing companies like Wal-Mart and I.C.E. Rallys, marches, street theater, concerts, Mariachi bands, bank shutdowns, sit-ins, sleep-ins... the day was packed!

San Diego held it's own with 125 other US cities as we helped the laborers of the world celebrate their true power!