HAPPY MAY DAY COMRADES

[dcsmart]

Please see post
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=367x19687

[Hardrada]

1. Hurray! Happy May Day and thanks!!

[dcsmart]

2. u r welcome

:toast:

[Dogmudgeon]

3. Hooray! Hooray! It's the First Day of May!

Outdoor fucking begins today!

--d!

[Hardrada]

4. About the maypole we will go with merriment

With glee and merriment
With glee and merriment

Thyrsis and Chloris
Thyrsis and chloris

Fine together footing it!

With a fa la la la la!

[TankLV]

5. May Day is LEI DAY in Hawai'i!!!

[Puregonzo1188]

6. We're doing a reading from Howard Zinn's Voices of A People's History of the United States

to commemorate May Day. I'm reading Debs' Canton Antiwar speech that landed him in jail.


Happy Mayday everyone!

[dcsmart]

8. great choice.....here is something for you

http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/marxists/archive/debs/index.htm


i hope you like it

[JVS]

7. Happy May Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVAD4sdTW4M&feature=PlayList&p=835EC66E46B12B09&index=4

[oxygen destroyer]

9. Don't you mean happy Law Day?

If so, happy Law Day! If not, then happy Loyalty Day instead!

[hfojvt]

10. Parsons and Spies?

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/hfojvt/47

[Hannah Bell]

11. The Eagle That Is Forgotten

By Nicholas Vachel Lindsay

(on John P. Altgeld)

SLEEP softly … eagle forgotten … under the stone.
Time has its way with you there, and the clay has its own.
“We have buried him now,” thought your foes, and in secret rejoiced.
They made a brave show of their mourning, their hatred unvoiced.
They had snarled at you, barked at you, foamed at you, day after day.
Now you were ended. They praised you … and laid you away.

The others, that mourned you in silence and terror and truth,
The widow bereft of her crust, and the boy without youth,
The mocked and the scorned and the wounded, the lame and the poor,
That should have remembered forever,… remember no more.
Where are those lovers of yours, on what name do they call,
The lost, that in armies wept over your funeral pall?

They call on the names of a hundred high-valiant ones,
A hundred white eagles have risen, the sons of your sons.
The zeal in their wings is a zeal that your dreaming began,
The valor that wore out your soul in the service of man.
Sleep softly … eagle forgotten … under the stone.
Time has its way with you there, and the clay has its own.

Sleep on, O brave-hearted, O wise man that kindled the flame—
To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name,
To live in mankind, far, far more than to live in a name!—

[Elwood P Dowd]

12. Thanks for the reminder.

I just printed out a May calendar. Old farts like me still prefer a calendar on a bulletin board instead on one on the desktop of the computer.

[asteroid2003QQ47]

13. The Internationale

The Internationale

Arise ye workers from your slumbers
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise
We'll change henceforth the old tradition
And spurn the dust to win the prize.

So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.

No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we'll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They'll break ranks and fight no more
And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We'll shoot the generals on our own side.

No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver
Chains of hatred, greed and fear
E'er the thieves will out with their booty
And give to all a happier lot.
Each at the forge must do their duty
And we'll strike while the iron is hot.