Are You "Spring Trained" For May Day?
By Danny Schechter, News Dissector
Our Own Stand Your
Ground Message, 1894
...Let the winds lift your banners from far lands
With a message of strife and of hope:
Raise the Maypole aloft with its
garlands
That gathers your cause in its scope....
...Stand fast, then, Oh Workers, your ground,
Together pull, strong and united:
Link your hands like a chain the world
round,
If you will that your hopes be requited.
Walter Crane, The Workers' Maypole, 1894
New York, New York: When you
hear the term "Spring Training," most of us think baseball, but, this year, it
has a different context because the Occupy Movement has appropriated the term
to describe educating and preparing activists for non-violent nationwide
protests and a hoped for General Strike slated for May Day 2012, this May 1.
This idea of "Spring" is more connected to the "Arab Spring," a time of revolt than the season we've entered.
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