Hey p_pman whats with all the May Day Protests?

[bored1]

No wonder the EU will fail. Your underclass spends to much time protesting instead of working. Protests in England , Germany and France just to name a few that I've read about today. With such a social utopia why all the protests? Europe slowly drifts back to its roots.

 

[p_p_man]

No wonder the EU will fail. Your underclass spends to much time protesting instead of working. Protests in England , Germany and France just to name a few that I've read about today. With such a social utopia why all the protests? Europe slowly drifts back to its roots.

It's a world-wide event.

Don't you have them in America? Still out of step with the rest of the world eh?

Traditionally May 1st is a day of protest. Some big, some small. I haven't caught up on what's been happening here yet but I did see that one of the first ones this morning to hit London was a "go-slow" for cyclists with the intention of snarling up the traffic.

But there were others due during the day.

But as I said it's happening in most countries in the world apart, apparantly, the good old US of A.

I would have thought that you had more to protest about than any of us...

 

[Starblayde]

Touche, ppman

 

[metal_minx]

yeah whats with all the protests? why dont they just put their heads down and work all day then drown any doubt in beer, fastfood, and jerry springer at the end of the day like we do

 

[Starblayde]

yeah whats with all the protests? why dont they just put their heads down and work all day then drown any doubt in beer, fastfood, and jerry springer at the end of the day like we do

You get to smash stuff this way

 

[metal_minx]

btw we dont celebrate may day because its an evil godless communist holiday

 

[Starblayde]

btw we dont celebrate may day because its an evil godless communist holiday

God Bless America....

'cos nobody else is going to

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[metal_minx]

You get to smash stuff this way

we like to save our big riots for when our team wins a championship...be watching after the nba playoffs then you'll see looting and burning cars like there's no tomorrow

 

[p_p_man]

btw we dont celebrate may day because its an evil godless communist holiday

No that's only between 04.30 and 05.30 in the morning.

The rest of the time is for us democratically elected, freedom loving, leaders of the Free World.

The EU I mean...

 

[metal_minx]

LMFAO! Does anyone else see the irony?

do you see the sarcasm as well? lol

 

[metal_minx]

No that's only between 04.30 and 05.30 in the morning.

The rest of the time is for us democratically elected, freedom loving, leaders of the Free World.

The EU I mean...

haha the EU free? not while we control things ;-)

 

[wizbit9]

went down to the may day protests today in oxford st london and it went all smoothly for a change.

Maybe it had something to do with the 5000 police in attendance

I agree with them all as its the only way us brits are able to voice our concern over the ever increasing capatalist society that we live in

 

[p_p_man]

I agree with them all as its the only way us brits are able to voice our concern over the ever increasing capatalist society that we live in

Yeah now that Speakers Corner has been taken over by a bunch of foreigners who have no idea of the concept of free speech we need our May Day...

ppman

 

[REDWAVE]

U.S. May Day protests

International Workers Day is honored much more in other countries than in the backward U.S., it's true. However, there are some May Day protests even here in the U.S. Raise The Fist (www.raisethefist.com) has a listing of them.

 

[p_p_man]

Re: U.S. May Day protests

International Workers Day is honored much more in other countries than in the backward U.S., it's true. However, there are some May Day protests even here in the U.S. Raise The Fist (www.raisethefist.com) has a listing of them.

If I had known about it in time this is the the one I would have gone to:

When: May 1ST
Where: Orange County

Gather in front of Loretta Sanchez Office, Reclaim the Streets march begins at 6PM (after rally)

Location: 12397 Lewis St #101, Garden Grove, CA

The Spirit of Mayday is ALIVE in Orange County! We invite everyone to come together in the spirit of mayday & join in this CELEBRATION of resistance. There will be a protest against Loretta Sanchez because she enlisted the help of the Immigrant working class community in Orange County to place herself into office. The community trusted her, and supported her, and she has failed to fight for the community that put her into office. She has voted for laws that target the Immigrant working class community, and has even helped for an INS to be built in Anaheim, she has turned her back on the people that put her where she is today, and on top of that she has also betrayed them by making their struggles even greater.

Down with Loretta Sanchez. A corrupt politician and one who has turned her back on the workers' struggle...

Venceremos o Muerte!



ps But you're right Redwave. Not much of a list of events for a nation that prides itself on protesting against injustice...

 

[SexyChele]

Re: Re: U.S. May Day protests

If I had known about it in time this is the the one I would have gone to:

When: May 1ST
Where: Orange County

Gather in front of Loretta Sanchez Office, Reclaim the Streets march begins at 6PM (after rally)

Location: 12397 Lewis St #101, Garden Grove, CA

The Spirit of Mayday is ALIVE in Orange County! We invite everyone to come together in the spirit of mayday & join in this CELEBRATION of resistance. There will be a protest against Loretta Sanchez because she enlisted the help of the Immigrant working class community in Orange County to place herself into office. The community trusted her, and supported her, and she has failed to fight for the community that put her into office. She has voted for laws that target the Immigrant working class community, and has even helped for an INS to be built in Anaheim, she has turned her back on the people that put her where she is today, and on top of that she has also betrayed them by making their struggles even greater.

Down with Loretta Sanchez. A corrupt politician and one who has turned her back on the workers' struggle...

Venceremos o Muerte!



ps But you're right Redwave. Not much of a list of events for a nation that prides itself on protesting against injustice...

OMG! Get me some asprin and let me lay down somewhere before I faint! Okay, folks a momentous day in history, and one I almost hate to admit.

I agree with ppman.

Damn, that was hard to get out!

The beginning of this is actually going down as I type this. But Sanchez truly is underhanded and does not deserve the office she was elected to. The accusations in this report are entirely true. When she first ran for office, she did so under her married name only - and was soundly defeated. She ran again, this time under her maiden name, Sanchez, and won. She ran on a platform of working for the immigrants in her district, many of them here illegally. She has indeed forgotten them and has not kept her campaign promises.

Okay, I need to go and lie down for a while until this feel of faintness passes......

 

[Problem Child]

Re: U.S. May Day protests

International Workers Day is honored much more in other countries than in the backward U.S., it's true. However, there are some May Day protests even here in the U.S. Raise The Fist (www.raisethefist.com) has a listing of them.

DROP DEAD!


heeeheee, hooohooo!

lol!

 

[JazzManJim]

I actually enjoy working hard for a living.

I wish I could work more for myself than I do to fuel my country's bloated governments.

I find it fairly ironic that the countries in which May Day protests are so widely celebrated/held are countries which are wholly, or in large part Socialist. For a holiday which purports to celebrate the working person (and we have that in the US. It's called Labor Day), I find it odd that it's celebrated so widely in countries which place such heavy tax burdens on the working person.

 

[kotori]

Re: Re: Hey p_pman whats with all the May Day Protests?

Don't you have them in America? Still out of step with the rest of the world eh?

Traditionally May 1st is a day of protest. Some big, some small.

No, we made sure that when we finally did invent a Holiday to honor working men and women, it was far away from the Bolshie Day. (1st Monday in September.)

 

[Sateema Lunasi]

JazzManJim said it perfectly.

And Problem Child said it practically.

 

[Pyper]

The communists here are alive and well and completely powerless under the conservative absolute majority in congress. But they still enjoy dancing down the streets waving their flags and calling for a general strike.

 

[p_p_man]

I actually enjoy working hard for a living.

I wish I could work more for myself than I do to fuel my country's bloated governments.

I find it fairly ironic that the countries in which May Day protests are so widely celebrated/held are countries which are wholly, or in large part Socialist. For a holiday which purports to celebrate the working person (and we have that in the US. It's called Labor Day), I find it odd that it's celebrated so widely in countries which place such heavy tax burdens on the working person.

There's always something to protest about. Taxes are one, Corporate control another, Politicians always.

Once the have-less class stops protesting then you have a truely complacent and stagnant society. A society in which the have-mores are able, and more likely, to tighten their grip to retain the status quo.

People should protest about something, anything, to show the Establishment that they will only be allowed to get away with so much, but no more. A sort of shot across the bows every so often. And protests can be as local or as national as you want them to be.

It's not the size that matters, but the voice.

I've always thought that since Bush, America has been fairly meek. Not wishing to rock the national boat, even before the Twin Towers.

Yet in the past the student protests that started in the States in the late 60s took hold worlwide and were adopted by students everywhere. Almost leading to the downfall of the Government of France.

America was the home of protest.

I don't think you're living in Utopia so all I can think is that you've given up and are willing to accept your lot.

Whatever it may be.

 

[Pyper]

I agree with ppman (uh oh) that protests are a sign of a healthy country. Something can always be changed.

Having said that, people go on strike WAY too much in Spain. And the worst thing about it is: the government, corporation, whatever, never budges. Nothing changes. All that happens is that the people themselves are inconvenienced, sometimes seriously. The latest transportation strike in Madrid left thousands of people WALKING along the highways to work, because the intercity buses weren´t running, and the working class here usually don´t have cars. I myself got stuck in that mess and had to fly back to Granada, because no trains or buses were running out of Madrid. The only thing the strike achieved was really really pissing people off, and turning public opinion against the workers.

 

[Closet Desire]

Damp squibs...

Just got a call from Closetdesirable (my partner) as she left her offices in Harley Street on the way to Oxford Circus. She reports that as earlier in the day police officers outnumbered protesters. In fact, she thinks she actually saw a protester as she approached the underground but wasn't sure.

She is happy to report that the police were having a marvelous time.

Hurry home for supper dear...