Out Of Our Lives” flanked an angry group of 30+ who marched to local rapist and St. Louis University student Josh Puchetta’s fraternity house. Voices were strong and complicit fratboys were confronted. Later, there were sightings of informative stickers with a link to http://joshpuchetaisarapist.noblogs.org and large graffiti on the side of his frathouse reportedly stating “RAPE HAPPENS HERE!” MAY 1 Bloomington: Actions, workshops and film screenings took place all over town throughout the day. In the morning, an attempted occupation of a section of a gentrifying walking trail lead to an eviction by an exorbitant number of cops, slashing tents and weilding a pepperball gun. Later in the day, a festive but confrontational parade snaked around town, ending with a picnic and dance party on the courthouse lawn. Graffiti reading “General Strike 2012” was spotted downtown. 1 St. Louis: After a strike-themed picnic in a south city park, 30 or more comrades rallied on Cherokee Street for an annual May Day March. A low intensity disruption, including loud music, proud bodies, screaming voices, wheat-pasted propaganda and sporadic fireworks sprayed this gentrified strip of commerce in celebration of those all over smashing targets of capital and the state. 4 Memphis: ATMs belonging to Bank of America, First Tennessee, and Wachovia Bank were smashed and glued in various locations around Memphis on Thursday night in solidarity with the recent police raids and arrest that took place in Portland. 7 Chicago: Vandals loosened lugnuts on squad cars at a Morgan Park neighborhood police station there and plunked a large piece of concrete spray-painted with a circle-A in the station parking lot. “It weighs every bit of 50 pounds,” said a Morgan Park District officer. “It’s a big hunk of concrete found in the middle of the parking lot.”
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