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May Day 2006 KPFA 94.1 FM News All Day on First Day of 2d US Revolution
Happy May Day! Today, the First 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.
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!
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!
For more information:
http://www.kpfa.org/highlights/index.php?a...
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The sharper the struggle, the better the literature and art, and this is certainly true for May Day 2006. In the birthplace of the struggle for the 8 hour day that gave us May Day, namely Chicago, the May Day events are numerous and large. There are reports that whole factories are closing as their labor is overwhelmingly foreign born. Chicago Indymedia is doing a good job of carrying the whole story at http://www.chicago.indymedia.org/. You will note Chicago's logo in the upper left corner is the Haymarket statute, Haymarket Square being the site of a police riot in the 1880s that caused the frame-up of labor leaders, all but 1 of whom were not even there, with the 1 remaining being on the speaker's platform. Some of the labor leaders were murdered by the State of Illinois. See http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/71657/index.php
The leaflet for Chicago's May Day is in English, Spanish and Polish (Chicago has a large Polish immigrant population), with the Statue of Liberty covered with all the flags of the world. It is, of course, the Statue of Liberty that is the leading immigration symbol in this country.
The leaflet may be found at: ttp://http://www.caaelii.org/events/volante_en_es.pdf
When those of you who are students return to school, in literature class, please demand that the poem on the Statue of Liberty, "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus, be part of the curriculum, or simply contribute it to the class discussion. It is always a good poem to recite whenever asked to recite anything before the class, and in these times, it is downright revolutionary! Here it is:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek frame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightening, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon hand
Glows worldwide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
The leaflet for Chicago's May Day is in English, Spanish and Polish (Chicago has a large Polish immigrant population), with the Statue of Liberty covered with all the flags of the world. It is, of course, the Statue of Liberty that is the leading immigration symbol in this country.
The leaflet may be found at: ttp://http://www.caaelii.org/events/volante_en_es.pdf
When those of you who are students return to school, in literature class, please demand that the poem on the Statue of Liberty, "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus, be part of the curriculum, or simply contribute it to the class discussion. It is always a good poem to recite whenever asked to recite anything before the class, and in these times, it is downright revolutionary! Here it is:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek frame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightening, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon hand
Glows worldwide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
For more information:
http://www.caaelii.org/events/volante_en_e...
Today's poll on the MSNBC site, promoted on cable television, asks whether the people attending immigration rallies should be arrested. It is presently standing 71% in favor of the position "No, it's disruptive to the economy, and any illegal immigrants at those events should be rounded up and sent home."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12576781/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12576781/
apparently there are a fair number who're fine with undocumented workers so long as they're dociley slaving away for peanuts.
Ok, let’s be honest. The MSNBC poll did not ask “whether the people attending immigration rallies should be arrested.” It did ask “Do you support the activities organized for the 'Day Without Immigrants'?”
Please, try and have some honesty involved with this debate.
Please, try and have some honesty involved with this debate.
the post quoted the polling question
"rounded up and sent home"
the question didn't specify during or after today's marches, but everyone knows that a large percentage of participants are probably undocumented
"rounded up and sent home"
the question didn't specify during or after today's marches, but everyone knows that a large percentage of participants are probably undocumented
or full native born underclass who are also expected to be docile and not protect themselves from police state abuse
Immigration Protests: Should illegal immigrants be arrested at today's demonstrations? * 13267 responses
Yes 68%
No 32%
[as of 12:50 PDT) t
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3080261/#survey
You folks who say that's not the question must be going to a different site!
Yes 68%
No 32%
[as of 12:50 PDT) t
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3080261/#survey
You folks who say that's not the question must be going to a different site!
The first and second links are different. The person who posted the first link must have confused the two.
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