In cities all around the world yesterday, people took to the
streets for May Day demonstrations, protests, and rallies. Members of
the Occupy movement, leftists, labor groups, students and more made
their voices heard from Jakarta to Berlin, and from Lagos to Seattle.
Frustration with financial institutions, sluggish economies, and harsh
austerity measures were aired, and some rallies became violent,
resulting in a number of arrests. Collected here are scenes from
yesterday, May Day, as it happened cross the globe. [40 photos]
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A police lieutenant swings his baton at an Occupy Wall Street activist
on May 1, 2012 in New York. Hundreds of activists with a variety of
causes spread out over New York City Tuesday on International Workers
Day, or May Day, with Occupy Wall Street members leading a charge
against financial institutions. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Demonstrators march down Broadway during a May Day protest on May 1,
2012 in New York City. Occupy Wall Street demonstrators joined labor
groups in a march to protest economic injustice and observe
International Labor Day. (John Moore/Getty Images) #
A trade union activist dances during a rally organized by various trade
unions affiliated to the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) to
mark May Day in Katmandu, Nepal, on May 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi) #
Activists, maids and workers rally during a May Day protest in Hong
Kong on May 1, 2012. About 5,000 workers, domestic helpers and activists
held a noisy procession and marched through the city center to call for
better working conditions and a raise of the minimum wage which was
implemented in 2011. (Laurent Fievet/AFP/GettyImages) #
Occupy Wall Street activists, one wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, rest on a
sidewalk during a May Day demonstration in New York, on May 1, 2012. (Reuters/Allison Joyce) #
An Occupy Wall Street activist yells at police who are guarding other
policemen making an arrest in downtown Manhattan, New York, on May 1,
2012. (Reuters/Adrees Latif) #
Protestors sit with red flags during a May Day rally in central
Istanbul, on May 1, 2012. Tens of thousands of workers gathered at
Taksim square in the heart of Turkey's biggest city Istanbul to
celebrate May Day. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images) #
An Oakland police officer pauses after being hit in the face with paint
as officers advanced on Occupy protesters blocking an intersection
during a May Day demonstration on May 1, 2012 in Oakland, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) #
Workers raise their caps as they march to salute Lagos State Governor
Babatunde Fashola during workers rally to mark May Day in Lagos, Nigeria
on May 1, 2012. Nigerian workers joined their counterparts in other
parts of the world to mark May Day with a rally held in different parts
of the country. The theme of this year May Day is "Right to Work, Food
and Education: Panacea to Insecurity." (Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images) #
People march down Spadina Street with the financial district skyline in
the background as they take part in May Day protests organized by the
Occupy Toronto and the No One Is Illegal groups in Toronto, on May 1,
2012. (Reuters/Mark Blinch) #
Riot police stand guard in front of the Rote Flora alternative cultural
center during May Day demonstrations in the Schanze district in
Hamburg, Germany, on May 1, 2012. (Reuters/Fabian Bimmer) #
A protester associated with the Occupy Wall Street movement is arrested
while marching through traffic in lower Manhattan, on May 1, 2012. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) #
Seattle Police officers gather near Pike Place Market, on May 1, 2012,
during May Day protests in downtown Seattle, Washington. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) #
Protesters break windows during a rally for International Worker's Day,
May 1, 2012 in Oakland, California. Occupy Wall Street has joined with
unions during the May Day protests, a traditional day of global protests
in sympathy with unions and leftist politics. (Eric Thayer/Getty Images) #
Militants and labour union members gather around a burning the effigy
of Philippine President Benigno Aquino in Manila on May 1, 2012 as part
of the May Day protests demanding higher wages and policies that would
make it harder to fire workers. Aquino has said he is trying to help
labour but has warned that giving too many benefits will make the
country less competitive, costing more jobs. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images) #
A woman affiliated with Occupy Toronto is arrested for trespassing
after she tried to erect a structure in Simcoe Park during May Day
protests in Toronto, on May 1, 2012. The protesters were told by police
they would be allowed to stay at Simcoe Park as long as they did not
erect any structures. (Reuters/Mark Blinch) #
Protesters taunt police with donuts on fishing lines during an
anti-capitalism rally on May Day in downtown Montreal, Quebec, on May 1,
2012. (Reuters/Christinne Muschi) #
A broken door, after it was damaged by a group of Occupy demonstrators
during a May Day protest in Oakland, California May 1, 2012. (Reuters/Stephen Lam) #
Riot police watch as left-wing demonstrators march past Axel Springer
headquarters during a May Day anti-capitalism protest on May 1, 2012 in
Berlin, Germany. This year marks 25 years since a 1987 Berlin May Day
demonstration turned violent and has been followed by clashes between
participants and police on May Day in Berlin almost every year since in
what has become an annual ritual. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) #
An Occupy Wall Street activist with a bloody nose is arrested by New
York City police during a May Day demonstration in New York, on May 1,
2012. (Reuters/Andrew Kelly) #
Members of the Tunisian General Labour Union, UGTT, demonstrate to mark
International Worker's Day, or May Day, in Tunis, Tunisia, on Tuesday,
May, 1, 2012 (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi) #
Protesters yell at police after arrests were made in downtown Miami, on
May, 1, 2012, as activists marched from bank to bank demanding justice.
(AP Photo/J Pat Carter) #
Tom Morello (center) of the rock band Rage Against the Machine marches
with Occupy Wall Street demonstrators during a May Day rally on May 1,
2012 in New York City. (Monika Graff/Getty Images) #
A Seattle police officer wearing riot gear tangles with a woman after
other masked protesters used bats and wooden poles to destroy the glass
storefronts of several downtown businesses, during May Day
demonstrations that went violent in downtown Seattle, on May 1, 2012.
Several hundred demonstrators, including hundreds in black masks, hoods
and armed with bats destroyed the windows of a Wells Fargo Bank,
NikeTown and an American Apparel store during one of the numerous
marches throughout downtown Seattle. (Reuters/Anthony Bolante) #
Indonesian workers march towards the presidential palace during the May
Day protests in Jakarta, on May 1, 2012. Thousands of Indonesian
workers held a peaceful rally in Jakarta on May 1 demanding better pay
and a halt to outsourcing to contractors. (ADEK BERRY/AFP/GettyImages) #
A student demonstrator tries to stop fellow protesters from throwing
stones and paintballs at riot policemen during clashes on International
Workers' Day, or May Day, in Bogota, Colombia, on May 1, 2012. (Reuters/Jose Miguel Gomez) #
Los Angeles Councilman Bill Rosendahl (right) and Representative Janice
Hahn (left) address members of the Service Employees International
Union (SEIU) United Service Workers West labor union and their
supporters during a protest on an one-day general strike at Los Angeles
International Airport in Los Angeles, California May 1, 2012.
Approximately 1,200 protesters took part in the demonstration to protest
working conditions and to lend support to other May Day rallies. (Reuters/Gus Ruelas) #
Seattle riot police shoot pepper spray at masked protesters that used
bats and wooden poles to destroy the glass storefront of an American
Apparel store during May Day demonstrations that turned violent in
downtown Seattle, on May 1, 2012. (Reuters/Anthony Bolante) #
A California Highway patrol officer stands near the Golden Gate Bridge
waiting for possible May Day demonstrations in San Francisco,
California, on May 1, 2012. May Day actions began with a strike by ferry
workers Tuesday stranding commuters who usually take ferry boats to
work. (Reuters/Robert Galbraith) #
A demonstrator yells during a May Day march on May 1, 2012 in Chicago,
Illinois. About 1,000 people joined in the march which worked its way
for about two miles from the city's West side into the Loop. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) #
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