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Billy wrote:
In article , Charlie wrote:
On Fri, 01 May 2009 17:47:54 -0700, Billy
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May 1, 1886
The Struggle for the Eight-Hour Day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_Riot
May Day parade and strikes
In article , Charlie wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty_Day
Loyalty Day is observed on May 1 in the United States. It is a day set
aside for the reaffirmation of loyalty to the United States and for
the recognition of the heritage of American freedom.
The holiday was first observed in 1921[2] as "Americanization Day,"[3]
and was intended to counterbalance the celebration of Labour Day on
May Day (May 1), an internationally celebrated holiday which was
perceived as communist.
Loyalty Day is celebrated with parades and ceremonies in several U.S.
communities, although many people in the United States remain unaware
of it. Although a legal holiday, it is not a federal holiday, and is
not commonly observed.
It was made an official holiday by the U.S. Congress on July 18, 1958
(Public Law 85-529).[4][5] Following the passage of this law,
President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed May 1, 1959 the first
official observance of Loyalty Day. [6]
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I was one of the many who had never hear of this atrocity, a perfidious
sham celebration to obscure class warfare, and what the workers of the
world knew to be a true working person's victory.
Workers of the world, who enjoy eight hour days, and forty hour
weeks, owe the victim's of the Haymarket Massacre the debt to never
forget their sacrifice.
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I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men
have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years.
I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when
the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest
qualities of man can flourish only in free air - that progress made
under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no
permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another
into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields
up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a
slave.
- H. L. Mencken
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- Billy
"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being
is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the
moment of conception until death." - Rachel Carson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI29wVQN8Go
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072040.html