For much of the planet, today is not just the first day of May, it's International Labor Day, and that means marches and protests to honor the (mostly) downtrodden worker. Here are some of the images captured at the various demonstrations around the world.
It was a colorful, tiring, largely peaceful day in New York, where Occupy Wall Street and May Day activists had sprawling marches, massive rallies, and a couple scuffles with police, all to protest corporate greed and money in politics.
A day that is expected to be filled with anti-establishment protests all around the globe, began early last night with a roving band of "anarchists" smashing car windows and store fronts in San Francisco's Mission District.
The next major action planned by Occupy Wall Street is a nationwide general strike set for May 1, and to promote it they've started producing a lot of great-looking works of propaganda that largely downplay the involvement of Occupy itself.
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