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[nadinbrzezinski]

Brass tacks... to brass tacks...

The action is ongoing. The teachers are not going back to work for the rest of the week. There were also thirty thousand people on the streets TODAY. Now I want you, my dear reader, to read that again. There were ThIRTY THOUSAND people on the streets today. This is quite possibly the largest action in a generation.

Now historically, from what people are telling Ed Shultz, this is the most people have seen in over fifty years. This is not a minor thing. This is the tip of the spear where WORKERS start to fight back. This is the tip. Now I must add, as a historian I have read on the Haymarket Affair

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair

I have also read on the ten and eight hour movements.

http://www.berwickacademy.org/millgirls/ten_hour.htm

and the eight hour a day movement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day

I know that this just as big as those. I also know that workers are starting to realize that if we do not fight back, we will be working from dawn to dusk, and children will go back to the factories. Nothing will stop the return of indentured servitude and slavery. We are, I am not kidding, at a point where we fight back... or all those gains from our forefathers will be taken away.

There is no right you have, unless you are willing to fight for it.

Workers, it is time to chose, what side are you on?

I will continue to blog as I learn more about this. But just like we saw history last week in Egypt, we are watching the most important fight of organized labor in the modern United States. So the time to stand on the sidelines is very much over.

Oh and to our elected leaders in DC... better figure this out fast. Or you too will be left in the dust when it settles.

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