Tomorrow is likely to be one of the biggest international days of action yet for the Occupy movement: the massive May Day General Strike. This action has been in the works for months, with protests planned by Occupy groups around the world. In Boston, several major actions are planned:

7 to 11AM: Financial District Block Party [info]

At least one group of protest fans expects Occupy to stage a significant Spring comeback. The gushing observers were out in force yesterday, tailing rally-goers on a march through downtown and Faneuil Hall. Sure, Boston police have shown appreciation for Occupy before. But it was still impressive to see so many of them dedicate their whole Sunday to the cause, and to playing along with their very own April Fools' stunt.

Chris Faraone, our fabled staff writer, embedded Occupy correspondent, and author of the newly-published 99 Nights with the 99 Percent -- out now, get a copy tonight when he reads at Brookline Booksmith -- was sparring with WRKO's Tom & Todd this morning when they called in reinforcements: for the last ten minutes of an hour-long talk-radio battle over the Occupy movement, Faraone went mano-a-mano with right-wing provocateur and all-around awful human ANDREW BREITBART, last seen outside CPAC screaming at Occupy protestors to "stop raping people

As some Phoenix readers might know by now, my first book, 99 Nights with the 99 Percent (Write To Power, $14.99), drops softly around New England this week. Subtitled “Dispatches from the First Three Months of the Occupy Revolution,” at its core the project is a time capsule from the center of last year's biggest news story, written and presented with an irreverent stank on it.

I hope that the Boston Police Department had a few undercover officers embedded in the Occupy Boston First Night operation. Whoever they sent deep into the heart of last evening's activism would have found a whole mess of juicy goods to bring back to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, which is apparently investigating its local Occupy outpost

At the noon start time there are hardly more than 100 folks milling around Duarte Square, an obscure triangular slice of real estate on the northwest corner of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. It's a certifiable Occupy event, complete with street theater, balloon metaphors, and an impromptu curbside teach-in on the evolution of the American police state.

After more hours than I care to count I finally went to warm up in a press crash spot at around four in the morning. When I got back to Dewey Square fifteen minutes later, a female member of the media team had been assaulted by a never-seen-before stranger in a dark suit. It was an extraordinarily strange occurrence by all accounts.

It's a mob scene at Occupy Boston tonight. A peaceful mob scene. The terrain is mostly muddy, with remnants of more than two months of revolution scattered over Dewey Square. The signs are packed up. So are most of the larger working group tents, including the enduring food operation, which now consists of just a table with some meager offerings.

Occupiers are clearing tools out of the logistics and media hubs, unplugging chords and carting off their operations. The canopy of blue and green tarps atop Dewey Square is being dismantled, revealing bright tents that haven't seen sunlight in months. A bucket of butternut squash gets loaded into a van. So do the canned goods, which are headed to the Pine Street Inn.

As just reported by David S. Bernstein: "Suffolk Superior Court Judge Frances McIntyre ruled against Occupy Boston this afternoon, declining to issue an injunction and lifting the temporary restraining order that has barred the City of Boston from evicting the campers from Dewey Square." We dug through the 25-page ruling, and identified some eyebrow-raisers.

Occupy Boston went to court today. The case -- Occupy Boston and Others vs. the City of Boston and Others -- ended with Judge Frances McIntyre extending the temporary restraining order currently prohibiting the city from evicting the camp at Dewey Square. McIntyre's decision is currently under advisement until December 15; until then, the restraining order remains in place and in full effect.

^{Anti-nuclear power demonstration; 1974 Kendall Square, Cambridge}

John Ford of the Occupy Boston library tent raises the issue of drug use and idleness at an impromptu emergency meeting last Saturday afternoon

As was expertly identified in veteran activist Sara Robinson's recent indictment of Occupy's asshole epidemic, the problem with horizontal democracy is that a lot of folks are lazy alcoholic douchebags.

It's a fair trade vegan anniversary cupcake - we swear!

While everything is fine and sunny down at Dewey Square today, the beginning of this weekend was hellish, as rain, sleet, snow, and even hail howled down on tent city. As happens every time the weather fouls up in these parts, new challenges arose and tempers got tested.