May 01, 2007
May Day
Viewed by a red-diaper baby, for whose parents' circle the 20th Congress was as traumatic as the Dodgers' and Giants' departure from New York the next year was for me and my friends - but even more disillusioning for us as we realized how much of what we had accepted as the foundation of our world was crumbling - May Day is a complicated and poignant occasion for reflection.
As the United States slides further and further toward the kind of outrageously unjust income distribution my parents and grandparents fought against, and every day's news has another injustice by the strong against the weak, what's worth remembering is the generations of people who paid some real dues trying to make a better world. They were misled by their leadership more than once, and there's a lot they didn't understand about how societies and people really work, but they were brave and their hearts were in the right place. Click here and spend a few minutes remembering much good work done and more remaining for us.
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