Happy May Day 2009!
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY! Happy May Day! This day is one of my favorites of the year, and not just because it marks the (3rd) anniversary of this Unapologetic Blog, but because of the positive energies that blaze through our streets.
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WORKER’S DAY which is a day Latin@s (and others) march to show solidarity and press for rights in many areas. This is also UMX’s 3-year anniversary. And a reflective day for me, for sure. And yet, I cannot blog more on this now because I have my hands full with dos hijas, with my two youngest daughters. Hey, that’s familia and life for ya! Once in a while, these things might just preempt studious blogging.
But I’ll be back later! Just wanted to shout and and send strength and positive vibration your way this day. Enjoy la marcha en tu ciudad, or whatever rallies you attend or way you have of contributing to la lucha.
Please drop your links to your own May Day posts if you swing by today!
Tags: Gente, May Day, Solidarity, Worker's Rights
Posted in Blogs, Borders, Human Rights, Immigration, Strikes, Marches, Parades, and Protests
A little May Day history and… for YOU GUYS (hee-hee) … the Mexican-American labor organizer who emerged from that first May Day in 1886.
Humans Unite!
http://mexfiles.net/2009/05/01/humans-unit/
great post!
I’m excited about May Day and “Presente” as opportunities to stand together for something important to many Latinas/os! In my work today I happened to read this passage from “Zoo Island,” a cuento by Tomás Rivera that was never published in …y no se lo tragó la tierra (1970):
“Bueno, si vieran que me gusta lo que andan haciendo ustedes[the census]. Al contarse uno, uno empieza todo. Así sabe uno que no sólo está sino que es”
Workers of the World unite!
right on!
want to pass on the sombrero tip for the 3 yrs and my gratitude to you for your perseverance.
you are a source for my part for la lucha… keeping me conscious…