On the 24th of May, activists particpating in Mountain Justice Summer and activists from RAMPS, Radical Action for Mountain People's Survival blockaded both a road and a transport barge associated with a mountaintop removal coal mining project on Kayford Mountain.

RAMPS/Mountain Justice video
Second video from RAMPS/Mountain Justice

On the 25th of May, about 25 riders took part in the Critical Mass bike ride for the last Friday of May, which is Memorial Day weekend. Some of the regular riders must have been out of town and were not present, but the rest of the pack ride anyway.

Video of the ride

Ethical human rights, development, globalization to replace neoliberalism. Establishment will not discuss the many rights omissions. Now a distinguished NZer supports the ethical approach which includes all omitted rights and unleashes human potential (and creates many jobs) by emphasizing bottom-up development.

Three Part Harmony Farm had its first farm stand on May 20, 2012 at the Grey Market, which took place at the Emergence Community Arts Collective in the Shaw neighborhood of DC.

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Interview with Carl J. Mayer, an attorney who filed a lawsuit on behalf of seven plaintiffs challenging Section 1021 of the NDAA, conducted by Scott Harris

On the 23 of May,DC Vote activists showed inside the Rayborn Building, outside the offices of GOP Rep Trent Franks. His door was locked and his answering machine "full."

Afghanistan, Monday: A NATO soldier of unreported nationality was killed by insurgents in eastern Afghanistan.

Yemen, Monday: A suicide bomber killed more than 100 people at a rehearsal for a military parade in the Yemeni Capitol.

All the new rules put into place by the act were directed against employees, despite the neutral-sounding language. Proponents of the act claimed it was a response to the Wagner Act primarily circumscribing management, but such circumscription was the point: Employees had possessed no rights, and the 1935 act was intended as rectification. Taft-Hartley was an attempt to take back as many of those hard-won rights as possible.

CNET on May 22, 2012 released the following:
“CNET has learned that the FBI has formed a Domestic Communications Assistance Center, which is tasked with developing new electronic surveillance technologies, including intercepting Internet, wireless, and VoIP communications.