atd - Webb's little candle

[Ian Livingston]

Right on Michael. I share your sentiments--except that I have no
insurance, and neither holiday nor holiday pay. I celebrate the men
and women who break sweat to make things work. For Those Who Profit on
the sweat and blood of others I have only the sentiment of hope for
their eventual improvement in some future we all might work for, as
you say. Happy Laborers' Day!

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> mistakes were made
>
> but the labor movement is responsible for a lot of good
>
> thank you all you gompers cigar-chompers, overpass battlers,
> picketers, pamphleteers, and bless the labor temples (are there any
> left?) thank you for my holiday pay today and thank you for my
> vacation days and my health insurance
>
> thank you honest and concerned union functionaries who didn't and
> don't affiliate with the mob or embezzle or
> discriminate; thank you who resist oppression and organize and come up
> with nifty logos and resist the temptation to oversimplify, to give
> up, to write the other side off,
>
> for those who stooped like Webb to violence may you come to see the
> error of your ways
> for those like Vibe who failed to realize that greed is really not
> good really really not good, may you have a change of heart...
>
> solidarity forever
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYWiUErA9Kw
>
> for those like Lenin and Mother Superior who jumped the gun, that
> other Labor Day in May celebrates your vision, clotted in memory with
> streets full of tanks - let us address our Marx and improve on his
> vision till it can be implemented sans bloodshed
>



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant