Red_Canadian posted:So tomorrow's Mayday, supposed to be a lot of shit going down. I don't want to talk about what I've heard too much, since loose lips sink ships and all that, and I'll look dumb if it all fizzles, but there are things planned, and I'm going to a pre-protest in an hour or so.
I'm calling in sick tomorrow, obviously, since the IWW voted for a strike and well, they are calling for a general strike and I'd hate to break that. I tried to talk a couple of my coworkers into doing the same, but of course I kept it quiet.
Courage friends, tis not too late to build a better world!
My workers will be allowed to participate in their first Casual Friday of the calendar year.
Red_Canadian posted:Haha both Canada and US have labour day in September. And apparently australia. But all leftists still celebrate the correct one, obviously.
so we celebrate the american worker, but not workers in general or the idea of workers. got it.
as an overt recognition of labor aristocracy, its a little bit funny. or ironic or something. im gay
shriekingviolet posted:don't you americans have a fascist history erasing Loyalty Day to celebrate or some bullshit name like that. or is masturbate-into-the-flag day not a stat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_Day_%28United_States%29 it's law day lol
The Wobblies blocked the parking lots of the parking police for a couple hours in the morning, which was decent. Might have cost them a bit of money anyways.
Did a manif which went around a bit downtown, wasn't repressed and ending peacefully.
Had a barbeque in the park, set up a barricade on an adjoining one way street for 3 hours.
The night manifs were a bit of a mess. Tried to do the separate crowds that meet and keep snowballing, but the cops kept shutting them down. I saw a few black bloc beating a cop with signs, and one got arrested. After that pretty much any on street protest was getting shut down pretty quick, teargas and all.
I can't say it was an unqualified success, but at least it was something. I didn't really take many pictures, but I did get a lot of sun. I even managed to make a couple people laugh by saying I'm red on the inside and outside. Even a picture in the montreal gazette, thought hopefully my bosses don't recognize me because I'm in profile.
discipline posted:Nah man. I'm glad you went. You did a good job. I'm just a veteran of both BDS and OWS, in fact, I cut my teeth protesting the fucking invasion of Iraq (where I live now) and so I'm just sort of touched that anyone goes to protests for any reason but a sense of obligation to get into "la rue" anymore ;(
I haven't been to one but my heart is screaming for it. We tried to get to a march yesterday but arrived too late. The reason is to feel the spirit in others, talk and learn and teach and think with other people. Bring some books and information and become alive.
thirdplace posted:shriekingviolet posted:don't you americans have a fascist history erasing Loyalty Day to celebrate or some bullshit name like that. or is masturbate-into-the-flag day not a stat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_Day_%28United_States%29it's law day lol
I just want u guys to know that May 1st is *both* Law Day and Loyalty Day in the US.
Red_Canadian posted:The worst thing about me is I have lived a charmed life. Things will always work out for me, I've encountered no true challenges. I was born white, male, tall and healthy (actually extremely sick, but canadian healthcare put me into an incubator until I survived long enough to live without it without putting my family in the poor house, thanks Tommy Douglas!) I know capitalism could work for me if I wanted it to, but I don't want to step over other people for my own satisfaction.
wow, cool. lucky you. every other heterosexual anglo saxon white middle class male is also living a strangely charmed life. it sure is cool that it's unusually great for us and that it's not some sort of system or class or something that establishes this order and then uses propaganda to constrain our thoughts to the point that the only reason for this that's acceptable to ourselves is luck. phew
tpaine posted:we're all gonna die donny!!!!
I have mentally prepared myself.
•Stares off with vacant dumbass eyes•
drwhat posted:wow, cool. lucky you. every other heterosexual anglo saxon white middle class male is also living a strangely charmed life. it sure is cool that it's unusually great for us and that it's not some sort of system or class or something that establishes this order and then uses propaganda to constrain our thoughts to the point that the only reason for this that's acceptable to ourselves is luck. phew
Uh, I acknowledge all of those things. That doesn't mean winning the genetic lottery isn't lucky? The whole thing with it is that I was lucky that the whole system was in my favour from the moment I was born, and not born in a different part of the world or in a different time or to different parents. I didn't have any control over these things, so it's lucky that it went the way it did. Now I have the tools and a pulpit (based on the things I was born with) to attempt to change the world. I can't change the fact that I was born with these advantages, only attempt to prevent them being the most important to a successful life.
Bablu posted:i didn't know white guilt was anything besides a conservative troll
Unpack Your Invisible Knapsack of Privelege for more info