Occupy Wall Street activists on Monday called for supporters to skip work on May 1 to protest against alleged police brutality during 73 arrests in New York during the weekend. Several dozen activists joined members of New York’s City Council for a news conference in Zuccotti Park to complain about police tactics.  May Day is both an ancient rite of spring fertility and, in modern times, a celebration of the international labor movement. It also has been used to protest various issues. It’s impossible to gauge the expected response of the strike.

While the government is trying to suppress the protest, there is a chance that by the end of the winter, there will be once again an increasing of the protests.