When is the last time May Day was celebrated in the United States? It's been a while, but yesterday I was lucky to have been a part of the biggest general demonstrations of the last 70 years.
I don't care what your stance is on illegal immigration, because more than likely, it doesn't even affect you. If you want to piss and moan about something [that hurts your wallet], maybe you should think about the billions of dollars spent subsidizing corporations that continue outsourcing jobs to Asia, Mexico and soon, central America. Anyway, yesterday was historic. Period. Why else did you and everyone in the world know about it?
Being in the Chicago march was really unique because I got to walk with 400,000-700,000 people I had never met before along the same stretch of roads and sidewalks that American workers demonstrated on 130 years ago. Haymart Square. Walked right past it. Sad to say, it looked like it had been turned into condos.
If the industrial revolution has been the story of the struggle of human vs. machine vs. employer, I would have to say that humans are far behind in the fight's tally. The almighty dollar is strong, but yesterday was definitely a victory for the people, hands down.
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