Posted: Thu May 1 23:15:28 2008
As most of you know, today is May Day, or International Worker's Day. Started in the 1870s, it commemorates the struggle for the 40 hour workweek, vacations, and all the other benefits we enjoy as working people. Labor groups worldwide generally commemorate the day with demonstrations and demands for better working conditions. These days, immigrant groups hold rallies to end the scapegoating of immigrants and improve their working conditions. But not according to Fox News. According to them, there's no such thing as May Day. There's "Law Day", some obscure holiday begun by Eisenhower to commemorate the rule of law. And they've taken full advantage of this to mock immigrant groups for wanting "amnesty" for illegals on such a holy day of commitment to law and order. They ran much further with it as you can imagine but I don't need to go much further. So don't forget May Day. Without a labor movement we'd all be working our whole lives for starvation wages.