Lauren Hynde
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On Tuesday May 4, 1886, at the Haymarket Square in Chicago, twelve demonstrators on general strike for the eight-hour day were shot dead by Chicago police. Each year, millions of people around the world -- although rarely in the United States or Canada -- celebrate on May 1st the social and economic achievements of the international labor movement. For this Survivor Bonus Round Challenge, your mission is to write a poem, without any formal requirements, that specifically mentions a known historical event of the struggle of the people for a better tomorrow and, moreover, is about that struggle. A poem worthy of Senna Jawa's "homelessness, poverty, soc/polit st. anthology" thread.
You don't need to be participating in Survivor to take this challenge. If you are participating in Survivor, for your poem to be eligible for points under the Special Bonus Rounds heading, it needs to be submitted to Literotica.com and be posted between 04/22/2009 and 05/20/2009.
Feel free to use this thread to workshop this challenge, to banter about this challenge, to post links to your submissions to this challenge, and to give your opinion on poems submitted to this challenge.
You don't need to be participating in Survivor to take this challenge. If you are participating in Survivor, for your poem to be eligible for points under the Special Bonus Rounds heading, it needs to be submitted to Literotica.com and be posted between 04/22/2009 and 05/20/2009.
Feel free to use this thread to workshop this challenge, to banter about this challenge, to post links to your submissions to this challenge, and to give your opinion on poems submitted to this challenge.
