May Day 2006 KPFA 94.1 FM News All Day on First Day of 2d US Revolution

Happy May Day! Today, the Frst Day of the Second American Revolution and hopefully the First Worldwide Socialist Revolution, America's first national General Strike will be broadcast all day on KPFA, 94.1 FM. See below for details.

KPFA can be heard not only on your radio, but also online at http://www.kpfa.org. Take your radio with you wherever you go.

The list of events nationwide may be found at KPFA's website and at:
http://www.actionla.org/Campaigns/NoHR4437/events.html

The list itself is a tribute to the decades of peace movement organizing that has brought us all together for this historic, milestone moment that we have all waited for all our lives as there have been no serious labor oriented May Day parades in this country in 60 years. Our peace and immigrant rights movements have finally brought May Day home to its birthplace, the USA, where it was founded largely by immigrant workers in the struggle for the 8 hour day in Chicago in the 1880s. From Alaska to Wyoming, from New York to California, from Alabama to Washington, from Louisiana to Vermont, from Tennessee to Texas, the entire USA will celebrate May Day as it is celebrated around the world, namely as International Workers' Day. We expect that this will be an ANNUAL EVENT and that our Labor Day holiday will be changed from the first Monday in September to May Day.

Now that the American workingclass is ready to join the rest of the world's workingclass united in a common struggle to put an end to the private profit system that oppresses us all and is destroying the planet, we can also join the rest of the world in singing the workers' anthem, The Internationale, in any language you wish, waving not the bosses' national flags (American, Mexican, etc.) but the international workers' red flag. If anybody can provide a translation to any other language, it would be much appreciated. Here it is in English (It is sung in F major, 4/4 march time):

Arise ye prisoners of starvation! Arise ye wretched of the earth!
For justice thunders condemnation; A better world's in birth.
No more tradition's chain shall bind us;
Arise ye slaves; no more in thrall!
The earth shall rise on new foundations;
We have been naught; we shall be all.
Chorus
'Tis the final conflict;
Let each stand in one's place.
The international workingclass shall be the human race.
(Repeat entire chorus once.)

Happy May Day!