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It’s May Day and I expect my granddaughters will hang their May Day baskets through out the neighborhood after school. It’s a tradition I didn’t grow up with in AZ but since moving to MN I look forward to my basket every year. Now, you may be...
by josterberg
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on Mon May 01, 2023 at 11:50 AM PDT
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I joined DKos in late 2005 and in May 2006, posted a series of diaries about the Haymarket bombing. It’s important that we never forget what happened so, as I don’t write diaries here anymore, I felt like reposting one — the second of this series.
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by dannyinla
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on Fri May 03, 2019 at 10:42 AM PDT
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I joined DKos in late 2005 and in May 2006, posted a series of diaries about the Haymarket bombing. It’s important that we never forget what happened so, as I don’t write diaries here anymore, I felt like reposting one — the first of this series.
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by dannyinla
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on Wed May 01, 2019 at 03:03 PM PDT
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Today is not just Star Wars day.
Eugene V. Debs was not involved with the Haymarket affair , however, he rose to prominence shortly after that. If you don’t know the Haymarket affair, it was a ...
by RightAboutNow
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on Wed May 04, 2016 at 05:05 PM PDT
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Haymarket Tragedy
Note: This is being republished to commemorate May Day. This is not presented as a general overview of May Day history and the Haymarket Martyrs. For a general overview, please see my other diary on the topic.
The history...
by ZhenRen
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on Sun May 01, 2016 at 06:07 PM PDT
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In the United States, we celebrate Labor Day on the first Monday of September. School started after Labor Day, so I grew up thinking that date was a holdover from our idyllic agrarian past. The farm ...
by RakDaddy
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on Thu Sep 03, 2015 at 05:38 PM PDT
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Haymarket Tragedy
Note: This is not presented as a general overview of May Day history and the Haymarket Martyrs. For a general overview, please see my other diary on the topic. I'd also like to use this opportunity to announce a new group,...
by ZhenRen
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on Sun May 03, 2015 at 08:51 AM PDT
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One event that stands out in my mind was the Jackson State killings The Jackson State killings occurred on Friday May 15, 1970, at Jackson State College (now Jackson State University) in Jackson, ...
by don mikulecky
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on Fri Aug 15, 2014 at 06:27 PM PDT
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This is the final installment of a four-part series that I first posted in 2006. The Haymarket bombing in 1886 Chicago gave the powers-that-be the excuse to have the police round up the most ...
by dannyinla
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on Sat May 05, 2012 at 08:24 AM PDT
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This is the third in a four-part series about the Haymarket bombing in Chicago that I am reposting this week. The 2006 series originally coincided with a (still unproduced) screenplay I had written ...
by dannyinla
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on Fri May 04, 2012 at 05:10 AM PDT
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Two days ago, I reposted the first in a four-part diary series about the Haymarket bombing in Chicago. The 2006 series originally coincided with a (still unproduced) screenplay I had written about ...
by dannyinla
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on Thu May 03, 2012 at 07:54 AM PDT
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I rarely write diaries here anymore, but six years ago today I began a series on the history of the Haymarket bombing in Chicago. It coincided with a screenplay I had written (still unproduced, ...
by dannyinla
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on Tue May 01, 2012 at 09:50 AM PDT
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Start of Rant:
Fresh from the red carpet at the White House Correspondents dinner, AFT President Randi Weingarten monopolized this morning's conversation on the Chris Hayes' show with the kind of ...
by JoesGarage
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on Sun Apr 29, 2012 at 09:40 AM PDT
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The following essay was authored by Scott Johnson, publisher of the Occupied Oakland Tribune , and reprinted here with his permission as a lead up to M1GS events taking place on May Day, 2012 in ...
by jpmassar
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on Fri Apr 20, 2012 at 02:13 PM PDT
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Immigrants are yet another group that the right wants us to turn against, to keep working people from seeing that their interests—native-born and immigrant, working-class and middle-class, ...
by BentLiberal
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on Mon Sep 05, 2011 at 09:01 PM PDT
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Today is May Day, remembered in most of the world for the movement for an eight hour day, culminating May 1 st , 1886, with 80,000 people marching down Michigan Avenue in ...
by jayskew
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on Sun May 01, 2011 at 07:20 PM PDT
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On May 1, 2011 the Rededication of the Haymarket Memorial brought out about 1000 unionists, activists and government officials including the Chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court to ...
by Hyde Park Johnny
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on Sun May 01, 2011 at 06:23 PM PDT
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Do you know the origins of the celebration of May 1, May Day, as a worker's holiday? (everywhere but the US, of course, where the origins of the day lie....) It is derived from the events ...
by KibbutzAmiad
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on Fri Mar 11, 2011 at 04:17 PM PST
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Apparently this is the philosophy behind the right in the US today. Housing market collapse? Unemployment skyrocketing? Impose "austerity" measures on working people while enshrining historically ...
by KibbutzAmiad
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on Fri Feb 18, 2011 at 01:51 PM PST
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Why is today a federal holiday?
It all goes back to a financial collapse, a ConservaDem, a labor leader and blood on the streets of Chicago.
by goinsouth
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on Mon Sep 06, 2010 at 07:08 AM PDT
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