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Showing posts with label May Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label May Day. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Sick Lefties At May Day Rally Call For Assassination And Beheading Of Trump

LEFTIST’S T-SHIRT AT MAY DAY RALLY SHOWS ISIS BEHEADING DONALD TRUMP

"Decapitate the Don"

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It’s May Day – and that means leftists are out on the street all across America throwing yet another collective temper tantrum.
Celebrating Communism – an ideology that led to the deaths of almost 100 million people in the 20th century – just isn’t as much fun if you don’t dress the part.
Project Veritas’ Laura Loomer snapped this guy getting in the mood at a rally in New York by wearing a t-shirt that depicts an ISIS terrorist beheading President Donald Trump next to the words “BEHEAD THE BRO,” and “DECAPITATE THE DON”.
So peaceful. So progressive. After all, love trumps hate.
All joking aside, this is yet another example of how the left decries the “extremism” of the right while itself embracing the most violent extremism imaginable.
It’s no surprise that ISIS has previously called on its adherents to recruit, radicalize and arm left-wing protesters because the two groups broadly share the same goals.
Images taken amidst violent unrest in Washington DC during inauguration week showed an anti-Trump Antifa protester displaying a photo of an ISIS flag and an ISIS beheading video on his phone to intimidate Trump supporters.
That doesn’t mean hordes of chicken-necked leftists are about to leave en masse for Syria to fight alongside jihadists, but it shows how the two America-hating mindsets often make for friendly bedfellows.
The right is constantly lectured about disavowing its fringe extremists, while the left embraces, lionizes and amplifies their own.

Monday, May 1, 2017

May Day Failure

A May Day Tale: Seattle Worker Loves $15 Minimum Wage — Until He Loses His Job

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Devin Jeran, an employee at Z Pizza in Seattle, was stoked to get a raise, from
 $11 to $15 an hour as part of a new law that takes effect today.
He was happy to get a raise, when Seattle’s minimum wage went up to $11 an
 hour at the beginning of the month.
“I definitely recognize that having more money is important,” he told local TV
 station Q13-Fox, “especially in a city as expensive as this one.”
But that didn't last long. "Unfortunately, he’ll only enjoy that bigger paycheck 
for a few more months. In August, his boss is shutting down Z Pizza and putting
 him and his 11 co-workers out of work," the station reported.


Today, across the country, workers are striking. Some 21,000 AT&T Wireless
 workers were expected to walk off the job, WZVN reports. And the protests 
occurred around the world as workers demanded better pay and better working conditions, ABC reported.
But for Jeran, things are going to get worse, RedAlertPolitics reports.
"[Z Pizza] owner Ritu Shah Burnham said she just can’t afford the

city’s mandated wage hikes.
“I’ve let one person go since April 1, I’ve cut hours since April 1,

I’ve taken them myself because I don’t pay myself,” she told Q13.

“I’ve also raised my prices a little bit, there’s no other way to do it.”
Small businesses in Seattle have up to six more years to phase in the new $15 an hour minimum wage, but even though she only has 12 employees, Z Pizza counts as part of a “large business franchise.” As

a result, she is on a sped up timeline to implement the full raise.
“I know that I would have stayed here if I had 7 years, just like

everyone else, if I had an even playing field,” she said. “The discrimination I’m feeling right now against my small business makes

me not want to stay and do anything in Seattle.”
The organization that pushed for the higher minimum wage, 15 Now Seattle, wouldn’t comment directly on the closing to Q13 and

didn’t offer any sign of sympathy.
“Restaurants open and close all the time, for various reasons,” 

Director Jess Spear said.
May Day began in the late 19th century, sharing the date with the International 
Workers' Day, set up by Socialists and Communists. The goal was noble: To 
secure the eight-hour work day and improve horrific conditions in some factories.
 But the day has morphed into unions in America demanding ever-increasing wages for workers. That, in turn, has led to a move to raise minimum wages to much higher levels.
But it hasn't helped Jeran.
Jeran wonders about all the rallies that were supposed to be about making life better for people like him.
“If that's the truth, I don't think that's very apparent. People like me are finding themselves in a tougher situation than ever.”
Shah Burnham is concerned about where her employees will end up when she does close.
“I absolutely am terrified for them. I have no idea where they're going to find jobs, because if I’m cutting hours, I imagine everyone is across the board.”

Sunday, April 30, 2017

May Day Protesters Follow The Communist Tradition!


Fears highlighting workers’ rights. But on Monday, the impetus for the U.S. marches span from immigrants' rights to LGBT awareness to police misconduct.

“There’s a real galvanization of all the groups this year,” said Fernanda Durand of CASA in Action, which will lead a march of about 10,000 people for immigrants' rights through downtown Washington. “Our presence in this country is being questioned by Donald Trump. We are tired of being demonized and scapegoated. We’ve had enough.”
Durand’s protest is part of the Rise Up umbrella movement that promises 259 events in more than 200 cities in 41 states focusing on immigrants' rights, she said.
Another widespread effort, dubbed Beyond the Movement, will feature a collection of racial-justice groups and include protests and marches in more than 50 cities, from Portland, Ore., to Miami. 
Erick Sanchez, another Washington-based organizer, said he’s seen the melding of different groups in previous events this year, from the Women’s March on Washington to climate change awareness protests. Monday will be the culmination of gelling these disparate groups, he said.
“There’s really a sense that we’re in this together,” he said. “That an attack on one is an attack on all.”
Trump released a statement Friday declaring May 1 “Loyalty Day” as a way to “recognize and reaffirm our allegiance to the principles” upon which America was built, calling on all government buildings to display the U.S. flag and schools to observe the holiday with ceremonies.
The holiday has been proclaimed by every president since Dwight D. Eisenhower, on differing dates, but Trump’s critics skewered the timing of the proclamation on social media.
Wrote @LibyaLiberty: “They said 'Loyalty Day' is to uphold 'the inherent dignity of every human being' -- a few days after launching a hotline for 'removable aliens'”
“If I were like, the worst president ever & wanted to make my critics look like traitors, I would declare May 1st Loyalty Day,” wrote @Onision.
Originally a pagan celebration dating back two millenniums and heralding the return of spring, May Day has morphed into a global observance of workers’ rights. But its emergence as an international worker’s rights day actually arose from a May 1, 1886, Chicago strike for the eight-hour workday.
“The fight for leisure — clearly lost today — was a great unifying aspiration of the immigrant workers movement a century ago with its slogan, ‘eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will,’” Nelson Lichtenstein, professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, wrote in a 2006 essay in Slate.com.
Demonstrations by U.S. workers followed in coming decades, including a walkout by Arab workers in 1967 protesting U.S. support of Israel during the Six Day War and millions of black workers protesting after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
In 2006, the focus of May Day demonstrations shifted to immigration when roughly 1 million people, including nearly half a million in Chicago alone, took to the streets to protest federal legislation that would have made living in the U.S. without legal permission a felony.
Immigration-themed May Day gatherings dwindled since but are expected to ramp up Monday as groups protest executive orders signed by Trump and seen as attacks on immigrants' rights.
Durand, the Washington-based organizer, said her group’s march will start at Dupont Circle, travel down to Lafayette Square near the White House and culminate with speeches from immigrants and elected officials. Marchers will be joined by other groups, swelling their numbers by tens of thousands, she said. More than 200 immigrant-owned businesses in the area will also shut down.
“We’re going to be able to show we are one voice, one people speaking for those whose lives are being trampled on,” Durand said.