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So Marcos, if Latino, if Hispanic, if Latinx are not appropriate terms then what word should we apply to those communities from so many various countries?
Our blog has addressed this question
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2015/09/their-holiday-and-ours.html
Labor Day began in 1882, four years BEFORE Haymarket and eight years BEFORE the first international May Day in 1890.
The origins of Labour Day can be traced back to April 15, 1872, when the Toronto Trades Assembly organized Canada’s first significant demonstration for worker’s rights. The aim of the demonstration was to release the 24 leaders of the Toronto Typographical Union who were imprisoned for striking to campaign for a nine-hour working day. At this time, trade unions were still illegal and striking was seen as a criminal conspiracy to disrupt trade. In spite of this, the Toronto Trades Assembly was already a significant organization and encouraged workers to form trade unions. In December 1872 a parade was staged in support of the Toronto Typographical Union’s strike for a 58-hour work-week. The Toronto Trades Assembly called its 27 unions to demonstrate in support of the Typographical Union.
Americans first celebrated Labor Day Tuesday, Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City. A parade with 10,000 workers marched from City Hall to Union Square. In July of 1882 Peter J. McGuire, the co-founder of the American Federation of Labor was invited to speak in Toronto at a labour festival and was impressed. He organized the first American Labor Day Parade in New York in September 1882.
In the USA, following the deaths of a number of workers at the hands of the military during the 1894 Pullman Strike, Congress unanimously rushed through legislation that made Labor Day a national holiday; President Grover Cleveland signed it into law a mere six days after the end of the strike. The September date originally chosen because Cleveland was concerned that observance of the latter would be associated with the nascent socialist workers movements that rallied to commemorate the Haymarket Affair on May, 1st, the International Workers’ Day.
Another article about the apathy towards Biden, this time from Hispanic voters
“Am I really going to waste my vote on this guy?”
“But I’m so far pretty blah about this election,”
“As a Latina, this election makes me feel like I have no choice…There is no way I’d ever vote for racist xenophobic, sexist Donald Trump, but how do I also justify voting for Joe Biden, when he also has a track record of dismissing people of color and making women feel uncomfortable and unsafe?”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/06/bernie-or-bust-left-democrats-biden-trump
“But my bigger fear is that Biden is going to represent four more years of a weak and useless Democrat party that … just sets up the conditions for someone worse than Trump.”
“He’s been doing all of these horrendously centrist things and surrendering to the Republican narrative of protesters being rioters,”
“I don’t see how he’s that much better than Trump. At least with Trump we see it out front.”
“There’s no one who has done more damage to the Black community in the last 40 years than Biden,”
“I don’t want to vote for Joe Biden and I don’t want to vote for Trump…I think either choice is going to lead to human extinction.”
We do have an audience if only we can reach them
The State’s back-lash. A similar response to Trump’s wish to re-classify Antifa as terrorists, Johnson wants XR defined as a criminal enterprise.
I won’t blog it until it actually happens but as we always said it will be the workers who will pay for the pandemic
“…the Treasury reportedly considers backtracking on a planned pay rise for the lowest paid…spokesman for the manufacturer’s organisation Make UK said firms would back moves to keep the national living wage down..”
Rather than “the rapidly-heating planet”, would it be more accurate instead to say “the rapidly-melting planet”
Former Republican Governor of Michigan Rick Snyder endorses Biden.
Under Snyder the Flint contaminated water supply scandal and cover up took place
Where are those progressives? Biden – Obama 2.0
Biden hires Pete Buttigieg, along with senior officials who served under President Barack Obama, to an expanded White House transition team.
Biden added four new co-chairs to the team led by his longtime ally Ted Kaufman: New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, former Obama economic adviser Jeffrey Zients, Louisiana Representative Cedric Richmond and his campaign adviser, Anita Dunn, as well as, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, and Susan Rice, national security adviser to Obama. Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, who has been advising Biden on the pandemic response, has also joined the transition team.
Perhaps this is the sop to the left. I don’t know their histories
Teresa Romero, president of the United Farm Workers; Lonnie Stephenson, president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; and Tony Allen, president of the historically black Delaware State University.
People here will recall that i was a denier as well and it took some time before i was persuaded otherwise by the convincing arguments that challenged my view . In my defence, it was at the early phase of the pandemic and before the mortality rates became significant.
Perhaps Dave B has changed his views but is a bit embarrassed to admit he was wrong.
When evidence is produced to refute your own opinions, there is nothing wrong in changing one’s position and admitting an error. It is how science works and progresses.
I earlier mentioned the religious imagery of Biden’s speeches and once again he returns to such metaphors.
“We’re finally now getting to the point where we’re going to be addressing the original sin of this country, 400 years old … slavery and all the vestiges of it,” Biden said at Grace Lutheran Church. “I can’t say if tomorrow God made me president, I can’t guarantee you everything gets solved in four years,” Biden said. But “it would be a whole better, we’d get a whole lot further down the road”
https://apnews.com/2373c9517d2781ab11b92e1ee0dd5273
I once read in a poll that the very last person Americans would elect as President would be an atheist.
An interesting take on Netanyahu’s divide and rule strategy
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/netanyahu-pitting-jews-jews-200901155252820.html
pitting Jews against Jews…Netanyahu has repeatedly depicted himself as a victim of persecution by the liberal left, which many dub “the Ashkenazi elites”…”forgetting what it means to be Jewish” given their penchant for Western, liberal values and left-wing politics…His son Yair tweeted against the founders of the kibbutzim and the state, calling them “damned communists who stole half state lands at the expense of the development towns”, referring to the towns built for Mizrahi immigrants in the 1950s…
