The first signs are beginning to emerge about how the Right intend to deal with the Great American Boycott: spin it into insignificance. The day isn't even underway properly and yet the Right are already writing it off as a non-event.
For example, check out this piece of pre-event spin on
Edward McGuire's website:
Has anyone noticed today's immigrant boycott? I haven't. Looks like we could live a day - or forever - without illegal immigrants. Oh well, I suppose the boycott backfired a bit, huh? Perhaps it would have been better for them not to advertise the fact that America can - and will - do much better if the 13 million illegals are deported, rather than messing around with half-measures of amnesty and "illegal worker programs".
If the Right think they can undermine what is clearly going to be the most significant day of worker protest for a generation, by spinning it out of existence, they've got another thing coming.
The truth is that where I live, pretty much every shop owned or run by immigrant workers has closed today. And if that's true here, then think what it must be like in LA and Chicago. May Day 2006 is an exciting day to be an American.