May Day, May Day: All-purpose, left-wing grievance day; West Coast port shutdown

[CactusCarlos]

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/01/may-day-may-day-all-purpose-left-wing-grievance-day/

May Day, May Day: All-purpose, left-wing grievance day; West Coast port shutdowns expected
By Michelle Malkin  •  May 1, 2008 07:36 AM Scroll down for updates…

Illegal immigration activists and anti-war activists will lead the parades today, but May Day attracts all grievance-mongers.

Here’s another all-purpose, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink “list of demands” (I feel like I’m at Oberlin again) from the “National Immigrant Solidarity Network:”

On May Day 2008, National Immigrant Solidarity Network is calling for a multi-ethnic, decentralized, multi-topic and multi-tactic national day of mobilization to support immigrant workers rights.

1. No to anti-immigrant legislation, and the criminalization of the immigrant communities.
2. No to militarization of the border.
3. No to the immigrant detention and deportation.
4. No to the guest worker program.
5. No to employer sanction and “no match” letters.
6. Yes to a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
7. Yes to speedy family reunification.
8. Yes to civil rights and humane immigration law.
9. Yes to labor rights and living wages for all workers.
10. Yes to the education and LGBT immigrant legislation.

We acknowledges that there’ll be multiple call to actions from across the country to organize May Day 2008, and each coalition will present their sets of demands. We should respects each other organizing and encourage and supports everyone’s issues:

1) Multi-ethnic, Decentralized and Multi-topic mobilization: while everyone will pledge to support immigrant workers rights at May Day 2007, local groups can choose to includes any other topics for their mobilizations: civil rights, anti-war, Katrina, labor rights, health care…., etc.

2) Decentralized Multi-Tactic May Day organizing: We will encourage everyone to organize their actions at May Day, but will let local groups to decide what they want to do at the day: march, boycott, strike, lunch action, vigil, community event, conference or congressional lobby day, etc.Understanding the connections between our individual conditions of life and the lives of people everywhere in the word allows us to come together and organize across all borders. WE NEED to link the connections between: wars in Africa, south America, Asia, Iraq, Palestine & Korea with sweatshops in Asia as well as in Los Angeles, New York; international arm sales and WTO, FTAA, NAFTA & CAFTA with AIDS, hunger, child labors and child solider; multinational corporations and economic exploitation with racism and poverty at home–then we can win the struggle.Let’s all come together, on May Day 2008, to build a new immigrant rights and civil rights movements!

Their calendar includes the “Festival of Tolerance and Unity” in Aurora, CO; a nationwide call to walk out of school to protest standardized testing; and a protest by longshoremen in San Francisco.

Good luck to the law enforcement officers across the country–especially in L.A.–who will have to contend with the attention-craving, law-ignoring ruffians and thugs turning out today for the annual p.c. powwow. They’ll need it.

[Lauri]

we saw that on the news last night... since its against union contracts to walk out, why dont they just fire all those walk outs and replace them? although, around here finding extra bodies may require that we go to the border states and round up illegals.

[franksolich]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they do something like this every May 1; with varying intensities over course.

The primitives and sub-primitives might think this is a brand-new sort of thing, but I don't think so.

[Odin's Hand]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they do something like this every May 1; with varying intensities over course.

The primitives and sub-primitives might think this is a brand-new sort of thing, but I don't think so.

It has been a "progressive" world holiday ever since the Chicago Haymarket Riots in 1886.

[Lord Undies]

This was the day two years ago when the militant wetbacks were going to shut down this nation by going on strike.  No one noticed.  At all. 

edit:  Oops!  Maybe that was May 5th.  I get them mixed up. 

[megimoo]

This was the day two years ago when the militant wetbacks were going to shut down this nation by going on strike.  No one noticed.  At all. 

edit:  Oops!  Maybe that was May 5th.  I get them mixed up. 

So, why Cinco de Mayo?  And why should Americans savor this day as well?  Because 4,000 Mexican soldiers smashed the French and traitor Mexican army of 8,000 at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City on the morning of May 5, 1862.

[Chris_]

This was the day two years ago when the militant wetbacks were going to shut down this nation by going on strike.  No one noticed.  At all. 

edit:  Oops!  Maybe that was May 5th.  I get them mixed up. 

So, why Cinco de Mayo?  And why should Americans savor this day as well?  Because 4,000 Mexican soldiers smashed the French and traitor Mexican army of 8,000 at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City on the morning of May 5, 1862.

Cinco de Mayo is just a good excuse to sell mas cervesa.   

[Chris_]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they do something like this every May 1; with varying intensities over course.

The primitives and sub-primitives might think this is a brand-new sort of thing, but I don't think so.

It has been a "progressive" world holiday ever since the Chicago Haymarket Riots in 1886.

Possibly, it has also, been a celebration of the victory of communism over the proletariat in the former USSR since the "peoples revolution" in 1917....

doc

[DixieBelle]

once around the fishbowl and the whole world is new again. Oy.

[Chris_]

This was the day two years ago when the militant wetbacks were going to shut down this nation by going on strike.  No one noticed.  At all. 

edit:  Oops!  Maybe that was May 5th.  I get them mixed up. 

So, why Cinco de Mayo?  And why should Americans savor this day as well?  Because 4,000 Mexican soldiers smashed the French and traitor Mexican army of 8,000 at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City on the morning of May 5, 1862.

Cinco de Mayo is just a good excuse to sell mas cervesa.   :cheersmate:

It is not celebrated in Mexico.   They sort of scratch their heads.

But May 1, 2 years ago is the gift that keeps on giving.  And the blowback from this list of "demands" will be wonderful to behold.

They should have parked ICE buses in downtown L.A. today.

[CactusCarlos]

Cinco de Mayo is just a good excuse to sell mas cervesa.   

Y mas tequila! 

[Odin's Hand]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they do something like this every May 1; with varying intensities over course.

The primitives and sub-primitives might think this is a brand-new sort of thing, but I don't think so.

It has been a "progressive" world holiday ever since the Chicago Haymarket Riots in 1886.

Possibly, it has also, been a celebration of the victory of communism over the proletariat in the former USSR since the "peoples revolution" in 1917....

doc

That is because the Second International meeting by the International Socialists' Bureau, whose alumni include one Vladimir Lenin, deemed it to be a day of rememberance for the Haymarket Riots' dead protagonists by all socialists/communists in 1889.

[Tess Anderson]

I heard most of these commie May 1 protests fizzled out, they must be waiting for the next POTUS to come along and grant them all amnesty. Cinco de Maya is just a overblown holiday America adopted to be able to tell themselves how multicultural they really are - it has nothing to do with independence for Mexico