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Workers Unite! It's International Socialism Day!
International Workers' Day, also known as Labour Day in some countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every year on 1 May, or the first Monday in May.
Traditionally, 1 May is the date of the European spring festival of May Day. In 1889, the Marxist International Socialist Congress met in Paris and established the Second International as a successor to the earlier International Workingmen's Association. They adopted a resolution for a "great international demonstration" in support of working-class demands for the eight-hour day. The 1 May date was chosen by the American Federation of Labor to commemorate a general strike in the United States, which had begun on 1 May 1886 and culminated in the Haymarket affair four days later. The demonstration subsequently became a yearly event. The 1904 Sixth Conference of the Second International, called on "all Social Democratic Party organisations and trade unions of all countries to demonstrate energetically on the First of May for the legal establishment of the eight-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for universal peace".
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Where are the board's 'dog lovers' ?
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4 minutes ago, SCBills said:
Where’s ya boy?He had a lot to say about Charlottesville..
We've got Jews being chased on campus, blocked from entering buildings, beaten unconscious at protests..
Haven't seen him in days. Might be nice to hear from the guy who claimed he ran for President based on a day of antisemitism .. we’re going on weeks of it and it’s getting worse.
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To quickly recap, demonstrators who were upset over early morning arrests at an attempted encampment took down the American flag at the main campus and replaced it with a Palestinian flag.
Though the agitators were amused, the university's interim chancellor, Lee Roberts, was not. Roberts proceeded to walk to the flag pole himself, remove the Palestinian flag, and re-fly the U.S. flag, to the appreciation of the Jewish students nearby. In another defining moment, Roberts later told reporters that the American flag would continue to fly over the campus as long as he was in charge.
What hasn't been widely reported is what happened once Roberts walked away from the flag pole.
The pro-Hamas radicals proceeded to try and take the U.S. flag down again.
But a student-led group, as it turns out, did not make it easy for them.
Guillermo Estrada, a student at the university, wrote about his experiences in an incredibly powerful thread. Here's his recounting of what happened:
..but it upset me that my country's flag was disrespected in order to advocate for another.
Shortly after, Chancellor Roberts came with police officers to hang the flag once again. They were met with profanity, middle fingers, thrown bottles, rocks, and water.
When the flag was raised once again, the greek community began singing the National anthem. As the Chancellor left, the quad erupted into chaos as protestors began removing the flag once again, preparing to destroy it.
My fraternity brother and others ran over to hold it up, in order for it not to touch the ground. People began throwing water bottles at us, rocks, sticks, calling us profane names. We stood for an hour defending the flag so many fight to protect.
My parents started a new life in the United States, a country that has helped them flourish and raise two kids. I grew up in a Military community and saw first hand the sacrifices they make. I will not stand for the disrespect these "protestors" cause for the sake of another country.
My LDOC will be memorable in knowing that my fraternity brothers and others fought to keep the flag up. But it was also be memorable in knowing that so many yearn to disrespect it.
For anyone wondering where the patriotic Americans were as the pro-Hamas protesters were trying to rip the American flag down again, here's your answer.
They were there, making us proud, and giving us a glimmer of hope that not all is lost in this increasingly crazy world.
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Hundreds of NYPD cops storm Columbia campus to clear out anti-Israel mob.
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Back to the protests thread.
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Biden Has Been 'Officially' Corrected in White House Transcripts 148 Times in 2024 Alone
If it weren't for the fact that they are running interference for the worst president in the history of the republic, and one of the most deeply and fundamentally corrupt political figures since Huey Long - maybe Caligula - I'd almost feel sorry for White House staffers. These poor saps are trying to cover up President Joe Biden's mental and physical decline, and it's getting harder by the day. Every time the president speaks, it's another Gaffe-A-Palooza, and the problem is this: Every time he speaks, the White House has to issue an official transcript.
Now we learn that, just since January 1, 2024, the President's remarks have had to be "corrected" in those transcripts no fewer than 148 times. And it's not just the fact that he had to be corrected - it's the why.
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Down the Drain: After Billions in U.S. Aid, Ukraine Army Chief Says Tactical Retreat Underway
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/04/30/ukraine-army-chief-says-tactical-retreat-underway-n2395707
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Columbia 'Revolutionaries' Want Their Meals Catered or Else
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It's the SLOGAN that fell flat
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Kill-the-Jews protesters at Columbia have taken over that school’s main administration building, Hamilton Hall. Scenes from the campus are horrifying:
It will be interesting to see whether these vandals are punished as harshly as the January 6 protesters.
These riots are a disaster for Columbia. This is true in several respects; for one thing, the demonstrators are robotic morons, mindlessly repeating pro-genocide chants. Intellectually, they are about on a par with Joe Biden reading “pause” off the teleprompter. I wonder whether Columbia’s academic reputation can recover. For another, the university’s administration has behaved spinelessly throughout the crisis. Columbia administrators have thus joined those from Harvard, MIT and Penn as objects of ridicule.Perhaps most notably, campus riots like the ones at Columbia could be a disaster for the Democratic Party. That is what happened in the late 60s. Voters hate these childish and destructive outbursts. Conservatives like Ronald Reagan (and moderates like S.I. Hiyakawa) who stood up to student tantrums became heroes, while soft-on-crime Democrats suffered. That likely will happen again.
Worst of all, the antiwar (ar, more accurately, pro-Viet Cong) riots that engulfed the Democratic National Convention in 1968 likely dealt a death blow to Hubert Humphrey’s candidacy. The same thing could happen again, in the same venue–Chicago.
Democrats had better figure out a way to deal with their pro-genocide left, or they could be in trouble.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/04/disaster-at-columbia.php
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Biden regime gives antisemites the green light to go after Jews. "Migrants" are ILLEGAL ALIENS
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