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 Post subject: Happy 1st May! PostPosted: 2009-05-01 12:29pm
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Day of Labour, day off here officially. It's ironic that I'm still working on this day because I don't have enough of a wage if I were not doing it. :) Anyways, happy holidays to those who have days off.



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 Post subject: Re: Happy 1st May! PostPosted: 2009-05-01 12:31pm
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It's ironic that I am a proud Trade Unionist, and I'm working today, too.

Well, maybe not exactly ironic, but...something.

I'm not sure why May Day seems to be practically ignored in the USA...probably some kind of ick that's socialism/communism sentiment...



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 Post subject: Re: Happy 1st May! PostPosted: 2009-05-01 12:36pm
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^ Got it in one - association of May Day celebrations with communism, socialism, workers' rights, the Haymarket Riots....

That's why the US has Labor Day in September.



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 Post subject: Re: Happy 1st May! PostPosted: 2009-05-01 12:40pm
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In honor of the occasion - The Internationale

Arise ye workers from your slumbers
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise
We'll change henceforth the old tradition
And spurn the dust to win the prize.

So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.

No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we'll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They'll break ranks and fight no more
And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We'll shoot the generals on our own side.

No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver
Chains of hatred, greed and fear
E'er the thieves will out with their booty
And give to all a happier lot.
Each at the forge must do their duty
And we'll strike while the iron is hot.



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 Post subject: Re: Happy 1st May! PostPosted: 2009-05-01 01:06pm
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I missed the speeches in the city. Bah. The socialists had a parade and everything...

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 Post subject: Re: Happy 1st May! PostPosted: 2009-05-01 01:27pm
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Kanastrous wrote:
I'm not sure why May Day seems to be practically ignored in the USA...probably some kind of ick that's socialism/communism sentiment...

For some reason, they have a day off of school today, at least the public schools. Which sucks because these neighbor kids (or at least kids who go over to the next door house...Christ knows who actually lives there, but that's another story) are a bunch of stupid jackasses.

I don't know why, as their website only says it's a Non-Student/Non-Teacher day. Maybe they don't have to pay them for today, or something. Or there are dirty Commies on the School Board. Either way, they got the day off.



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 Post subject: Re: Happy 1st May! PostPosted: 2009-05-01 02:38pm
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I got laid off today. Irony of ironies.

Ah well. Laid off in the morning, went and secured a new job by afternoon, so it's not all bad.



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 Post subject: Re: Happy 1st May! PostPosted: 2009-05-01 03:19pm
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My great grandfather was apparently, quite the communist back in his day. I always enjoy telling people who get apoplectic about the eeeeevils of socialism that I'm one-eighth communist. It's particular apt on days like these.



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 Post subject: Re: Happy 1st May! PostPosted: 2009-05-01 04:24pm
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It's ironic that the whole May Day/Worker's Day started as an international show of solidarity for a bunch of... American workers slaughtered by cops in Chicago while protesting for an 8-hour work day (the Haymarket affair Broomie pointed out earlier). It became so successful and popular that it became a regular international phenomenon and the US government didn't want the association so they conjured up the kinda blah and meaningless "Labor Day" in September instead.

Now, stupid voters across the USA can take their 8-hour work days and their weekends off, buy TVs with their wages guaranteed never to fall below certain minimums, and watch Glenn Beck and grouse and grumble about "them damn Lefties and Socialists ruining everything!" and then go have "tea parties" in publicly-funded parks.



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 Post subject: Re: Happy 1st May! PostPosted: 2009-05-01 04:39pm
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I'd like to think that actual union members have a bit of a different perspective. Every time I look at a paycheck I'm reminded that people had to fight and die so that labor could actually have some say in how the system works.



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 Post subject: Re: Happy 1st May! PostPosted: 2009-05-01 04:39pm
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The onset of May also means we get new Armageddon soon.



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 Post subject: Re: Happy 1st May! PostPosted: 2009-05-01 05:08pm
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Slaving away on May Day for the good of Capitalism and Vladimir Gusinski.

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 Post subject: Re: Happy 1st May! PostPosted: 2009-05-01 05:08pm
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Yay! May 1st, a true worker's holiday...and my anniversary. And a week before my wife's birthday, and mother's day. Ahh May 1st, a day to remind me how truly broke I am by the end of the month. :) I kid of course, I love this month.

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 Post subject: Re: Happy 1st May! PostPosted: 2009-05-01 05:19pm
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 Post subject: Re: Happy 1st May! PostPosted: 2009-05-01 06:21pm
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My great grandfather was apparently, quite the communist back in his day. I always enjoy telling people who get apoplectic about the eeeeevils of socialism that I'm one-eighth communist. It's particular apt on days like these.


That makes you 1/16, not 1/8. To get to be 1/4 like me you need both grandparents as party members.

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so they conjured up the kinda blah and meaningless "Labor Day" in September instead.


I thought that was made up to try to win some voting points?



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 Post subject: Re: Happy 1st May! PostPosted: 2009-05-01 11:52pm
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buy TVs with their wages guaranteed never to fall below certain minimums,


In Ohio it is even better! Our minimum wage is tied to inflation, and can never go down. It's in the state constitution. :D



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 Post subject: Re: Happy 1st May! PostPosted: 2009-05-02 01:02am
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Since nobody's posted it yet, you Europeans know how to celebrate in style!

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May Day turns violent in Turkey, Germany, Greece 01 May 2009 12:47:43 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Tear gas, warning shots, water cannon in Turkey

* Early-morning clashes in Germany, 50 police hurt

* Greek police clash with self-styled anarchists

* In France, even managers take to streets in protest

By Thomas Grove

ISTANBUL, May 1 (Reuters) - May Day protesters clashed with riot police in Germany, Turkey and Greece on Friday while thousands angry at the government's responses to the global financial crisis took to the streets in France.

Rising unemployment across Europe and beyond has added intensity to May Day marches as last year's market crash and banking meltdown rolls into the real economy.

There were early morning clashes in Germany and protests in Istanbul swiftly turned violent. Greek police clashed with self-styled anarchists.

Turkish riot police fired water cannon and tear gas, firing shots and pepper spray to disperse masked protesters. Young men hurled stones and Molotov cocktails, smashing bank and shop windows in side streets. [ID:nL172509]

An Istanbul police spokesman said 68 demonstrators were detained and 11 police wounded. Leftists and Kurdish separatists regularly clash with police at demonstrations in Turkey and the May Day protest last year also turned violent.

Turkey's government had declared May Day, traditionally marked across Europe and beyond by rallies by labour unions, a public holiday this year under pressure from the unions.

"Those who are here are unemployed and need work," said Mehmet Guleryuz, a film director. "These are students who cannot pay tuition fees. Things are bad everywhere but it hits Turkey hard."

Almost one in three young people in Turkey is without a job and the government fears social unrest and increased ethnic tension because of the downturn. Labour unions, traditionally weak, have become increasingly vocal.

GERMAN CLASHES, FRENCH MARCHES

In Berlin and Hamburg, scattered violence erupted in the early hours of the May Day holiday injuring more than 50 riot police, authorities said. [ID:nL143043]

Some 200 demonstrators chanting anti-capitalism slogans threw bottles and stones at riot police in Berlin, police said, torching five cars. Germany is facing its worst economic crisis since World War Two.

"On the one hand there are people out in the streets protesting peacefully against the economic crisis and there is nothing wrong with that," said police spokesman Frank Miller.

"But when people burn cars and trash containers and commit other criminal acts -- that has nothing to do with political protests."

German police were braced for further violence later when members of far right parties, labour unions and Leftists march.

French unions organised nearly 300 marches targeting President Nicolas Sarkozy's social policies and crisis management, with the opposition Socialist party calling on its members to join the protests for the first time since 2002. [ID:nL1587768]

France's headline jobless total rose to almost 2.5 million in March, 2.7 percent up on the previous month. The number of jobseekers under 25 increased 36 percent year on year. [ID:nLR739225]

In a sign of how far disillusion has spread, even staff in management positions are expected to take part in the marches.

"It is absolutely not in our tradition to protest on May 1, but given the economic context in France and crisis we decided to join in," said Carole Couvert, a leader of the CFE-CGC union for executives.

"It is a first for us because our method is negotiation."

Greek police said they fired tear gas in a clash with 300 people at Athens Polytechnic. [ID:nL1716011]

Elsewhere in Athens, nearly 6,000 protesters, mostly members of a communist trade union, gathered under the watchful eyes of 4,000 police. Many were angry at bank bailouts.

"We won't pay for their crisis," read banners from the country's main trade union GSEE. (Reporting by Reuters bureaux, writing by Peter Apps; editing by Robert Woodward)
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 Post subject: Re: Happy 1st May! PostPosted: 2009-05-02 02:35am
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It's ironic that the whole May Day/Worker's Day started as an international show of solidarity for a bunch of... American workers slaughtered by cops in Chicago while protesting for an 8-hour work day (the Haymarket affair Broomie pointed out earlier). It became so successful and popular that it became a regular international phenomenon and the US government didn't want the association so they conjured up the kinda blah and meaningless "Labor Day" in September instead.

At least our Labor Day isn't annually celebrated with wanton property destruction, as seems to be popular with May 1. :|



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 Post subject: Re: Happy 1st May! PostPosted: 2009-05-02 02:39am
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Bah. 8 May is the true day to celebrate.



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Bah. 8 May is the true day to celebrate.

Let me guess. The Battle of the Coral Sea? Nixon ordering the mining of Haiphong Harbor? The Battle of Palo Alto? The invention of Coca-Cola? :P



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Let me guess. The Battle of the Coral Sea? Nixon ordering the mining of Haiphong Harbor? The Battle of Palo Alto? The invention of Coca-Cola? :P


My mistake, 9 May. Always forget that the Soviets ended WW2 a day later than the West, where it's 8 May.

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Oh, duh. Don't know how the hell I forgot V-E day. :oops:



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