How important is May Day to American unionists and Democrats? Read for yourself...
It’s unfortunate that many Americans lost the memory of May Day because in failing to celebrate the holiday, U.S. workers are deprived of the spirit of solidarity they used to share with international workers. However, that doesn’t mean that May Day is completely forgotten within the United States.
The San Jose May 1 Coalition is hosting a march for immigration rights, while the protests of Governor Scott Walker continue in Wisconsin. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will speak at Milwaukee’s May Day march today in one of more than 100 marches and rallies that will be held across the country.
The AFL-CIO is live-blogging May Day actions and also tweeting updates under the hashtag #MayDay. In a written statement, the union’s blog reads: “These rallies and marches will show workers’ rights and immigrant rights are connected.”
Christine Neumann-Ortiz, founder and executive director of Voces de la Frontera, says that there is now “an unprecedented alliance” between labor and immigrant rights communities in the wake of Walker’s bill that eliminate bargaining rights for public workers. “We want to send a message to corporate America, politicians and others that working people will not be divided,” she says.
Even the New York Times posts a front-page story lauding the Communist Chinese Party.
Nicholas D. Kristof pens an editorial lauding statistics that prove Shanghai's life expectancy and infant mortality rates are better than New York City's (unless of course you add in Shanghai's migrant worker population, then those statistics change for the worse; but for comparison points, Kristof wants to use 'sanitized' data that allow him to bash and blame evil Conservatives and Corporations for America's faults). And, lo and behold! Chinese school systems are the best in a 65-nation survey! Why, we should adapt their school system's methodology forthright and post haste!
Let's start by getting rid of our teacher's unions. China has the best school system you say? China doesn't have unions you say? Hop to it, then. Break up these pesky unions; our schools will become more like China's.
And what of these statistics proving Shanghai, and China, have better, longer lives than poor oppressed-by-Capitalism Americans?
Given that the parents of Shanghai's (and the rest of China's) children are only allowed only one child per family, it's likely that that one child will have much more attention given to it (including prenatal care) than would a child in a multiple-child family (if such families were permitted for comparison's sake), because that child will be considered
'precious and few'. Unless it's a girl-child, of course; amongst female children in China that are allowed to be born in the first place, you might find a higher mortality rate. There's a statistic you won't find to be comparable to any other nation's birth-and-survival statistics, I'll warrant.
Is that a good thing, China's one-child-per-family rule? From a strictly biological point of view, yes it is. There are far too many people on this planet for long-term sustainability; just ask any honest scientist worth his various parchments. That's the underlying (and largely unspoken) principle driving many of the left's environment-first thinkers, from Al Gore to John Holdren; an opinion that is innate to many who believe in a biological existence. Atheists believe that humans are no more than a chance-evolved function of complex carbon-based chemistry, are sans a soul and, biologically speaking, are purposeless except for the species' basest expectations: be born, reproduce if you are worthy, then die. That's a clear separation from their faith-based God-bothering counterparts.
We here in the 'ever-enlightening' Western world will have to adapt that one-child rule of course, sooner than later. Why not? The Chinese, so far, seem much better off for it.
And the CCP is, of course, much better than any old Conservative - Tea Party- Republican-influenced government that's causing such massive butt-hurt for the 'enlightened' in our neo-socialist society, right, Kristof?
Snap to it, then. Work to see a United States sans any right-based thinking. You'll be right where you want to be, cradled by a Social Democratic Party that Cares, just like China's.
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