Happy Labor Day! Solidarity Forever! "l eat, bye and bye, In that glorious land…

Happy Labor Day! Solidarity Forever!

“l eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray, live on hay,
You’ll get pie in the sky when you die”

– “The Preacher and the Slave”, a parody hymn written by rebel singer and labour icon Joe Hill


Labor Day and the spirit of Joe Hill
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Clancy Sigal: Joe Hill, workers’ martyr, was executed by firing squad nearly a century ago, but his message lives on: ‘Don’t mourn – organise!’

"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you…

“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop.”


Mario Savio on the operation of the machine
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“We asked the following: if President Kerr actually tried to get something more liberal out of the Regents in his telephone conversation, why didn’t he make …