Mayday Mayday

[sheshe2]

BMDC will join the rally in East Boston immediately following Boston City Hall rally

Supporters: ANSWER Coalition, Boston Anti Authoritarian Movement, Boston Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Committee, Greater Boston Stop the Wars Coalition, Harvard No-Layoffs Campaign, Industrial Workers of the World, Latinos for Social Change, Mass Global Action, Sacco & Vanzetti Commemoration Society, Socialist Alternative, Socialist Party of Boston, Socialist Workers Party, Student Labor Action Movement, USW Local 8751 - Boston School Bus Drivers Union, Worcester Immigrant Coalition, National Immigrant Solidarity Network, Democracy Center - Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridge/Somerville/Arlington United for Justice with Peace, International Socialist Organization, Community Church of Boston, Dominican Development Center

http://www.bostonmayday.org/

We have work to do!

[Warpy]

1. There is not much May Day stuff going on here in NM

It should be a pretty day, cooling off a bit, so I'll be wearing my Communist Party t-shirt.

http://www.threadless.com/product/383/The_Communist_Party

[socialist_n_TN]

5. Yep. I'm planning on wearing my "Workers of the World, Unite!" tee......

I still haven't found anything going on around here yet either. Either that or the Trotsky tee.

[NoPasaran]

2. Deep in my heart I do believe

We shall overcome someday

[freshwest]

3. Join Together For Mayday... This Is Why We Fight...

#!

UFCW International Union

http://www.youtube.com/user/UFCWInternational?feature=watch

This Is Why We Fight - The Decemberists

Come the war
Come the avarice
Come the war
Come hell

Come attrition
Come the reek of bones
Come attrition
Come hell

This is why
Why we fight
Why we lie awake
And this is why
This is why we fight

When we die
We will die
With our arms unbound

And this is why
This is why
Why we fight
Come hell

Bride of quiet
Bride of all unquiet things
Bride of quiet
Bride of hell

Come the archers
Come the infantry
Come the archers
Of hell

This is why
Why we fight
Why we lie awake
This is why
This is why we fight

And when we die
We will die
With our arms unbound
And this is why
This is why we fight
Come hell
Come hell

This is why
Why we fight
Why we lie awake
This is why
This is why we fight

When we die
We will die with our arms unbound
And this is why
This is why we fight

So come to me
Come to me now
Lay your arms around me
And this is why
This is why
We fight

Come hell
Come hell
Come hell
Come hell

[burrowowl]

4. And to think that May Day

originated in the USA!

[freshwest]

8. Yes, and in a way, it has been part of America for many years before that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day#United_States

We were taught about May Day and majority of this entry in Wikipedia in public school in the sixties:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_socialist_movement_in_the_United_States

[byeya]

6. "People Before Profits" still works for me. Billy Bragg wrote some fine updated lyrics to

The Internationale which I would like to recommend.

[byeya]

7. The Internationale

Stand up, all victims of oppression
For the tyrants fear your might
Don't cling so hard to your possessions
For you have nothing, if you have no rights
Let racist ignorance be ended
For respect makes the empires fall
Freedom is merely privilege extended
Unless enjoyed by one and all

Chorus:
So come brothers and sisters
For the struggle carries on
The internationale
Unites the world in song
So comrades come rally
For this is the time and place
The international ideal
Unites the human race

Let no one build walls to divide us
Walls of hatred nor walls of stone
Come greet the dawn and stand beside us
We'll live together or we'll die alone
In our world poisoned by exploitation
Those who have taken, now they must give
And end the vanity of nations
We've but one earth on which to live

And so begins the final drama
In the streets and in the fields
We stand unbowed before their armour
We defy their guns and shields
When we fight, provoked by their aggression
Let us be inspired by like and love
For though they offer us concessions
Change will not come from above

(Billy Bragg and others)

[freshwest]

9. Sheshe, how about crossposting this in Labor?