Today marks the 120th anniversary of the demonstrations and strikes that first established May 1st as the international workers' holiday. The original May Day protests were organized in support of labor's campaign for an eight-hour work day.
This year, the focus, at least in the U.S. is on the struggle of immigrant workers for social justice and dignity.
To celebrate, here is some music appropriate to the occasion:
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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