May Day is the holiday
that working people around the world celebrate for international worker’s
solidarity. The US is one of the few countries that do not celebrate this with
a legal holiday. The US government moved our Labor Day to September, many years
ago, hoping to kill its meaning. Although most Americans no longer celebrate
this holiday, many of us still do. We realize that Labor Day is supposed to be
a day set aside to honor the struggle for worker’s rights, including the hard
earned fight for an eight hour work day, an end to child labor, a five day work
week and the right to organize ourselves into labor unions. The US right-wing
has worked hard to reverse most of these gains and this is one day we can come
together and support our rights as workers.
This celebration will be at the Peace and
Social Justice Center, May 1st, 5:30pm, at1407 N Topeka St, Wichita, KS 67214,
(316) 263-5886.
Come and bring a dish.
Or just come and join in.
-SJ Otto
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