May 2012
“History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them.”
—Martin Luther King Jr.
“Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.”
—Molly Ivins
“If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.”
—Abraham Lincoln
“If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!”
—Mother Jones
“It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.”
—President Theodore Roosevelt
“What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.”
—Samuel Gompers, American labor leader and first President of the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
“If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.”
—
Joe Hill
Happy May Day/International Worker’s Day!
Oh sweet jeebus
“Bag Full of Thoughts” by The Flaming Lips just came up on Pandora.
Must… not.. dance…
I assume that’s your husband? He’s adorable.
Yes. And yes he is — I love him, anyhow. The cat is groovy as well.
Original here.
Just received another anti-Obama email forward...
Basically, Barack Obama’s lawyer’s admitted the birth certificate is a forgery. Blah, blah, blah…
But it had the best graphic EVER:
Actually, needs to be a gif with flames.
Email grade: F
Facts grade: F
Graphics: B+ (add flames and glitter, then we’ll talk.)
Cheers,
Meg
