Danny Schechter - Are You “Spring Trained” For May Day?
April 25, 2012 Listen to Danny on "The News Dissector" every Friday at 1pm (Eastern Time)
Our Own Stand Your Ground Message, 1894
...Let the winds lift your banners from far lands
With a message of strife and of hope:
Raise the Maypole aloft with its garlands
That gathers your cause in its scope....
...Stand fast, then, Oh Workers, your ground,
Together pull, strong and united:
Link your hands like a chain the world round,
If you will that your hopes be requited.
When the World's Workers, sisters and brothers,
Shall build, in the new coming years,
A lair house of life -- not for others,
For the earth and its fullness is theirs.
Walter Crane, The Workers' Maypole, 1894
New York, New York: When you hear the term "spring training," most of us think baseball, but, this year, it has a different context because the Occupy Movement has appropriated the term to describe educating and preparing activists for non-violent nationwide protests and a hoped for general strike slated for May Day 2012 this May 1.
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