As I've said before I think Haslam has been good, if nothing else he has put good people in charge. But I wish the MP voters could be more creative than voting for Haslams or Vol coaches year after year. I voted for Ashley Capps this year. As for May Day, I appreaciate the film Michael showed a few years ago called The Uprising about local millworkers. The only May Day demonstration I've seen here is when the Hispanics demonstrated 3 years ago as part of a national event, it was huge.

Dear talidapali,
I liked the FSM link.

You might like to check out this:
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Or visit /www.rationalists.org and check the May 3 calendar item.

Forrest Erickson

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michael kaplan: I salute you and your apparent concern for the workers of the world.
Andy: the small minority of trade union members that have engaged in violence (the Haymarket thing you referenced), are NOT representative of the masses of union members that work hard to bring home the bread and ask to be respected as human beings and to EARN decent wages with which to pursue the Great American Dream.
The motto of most union members is simply this: "A decent day's wages for a decent day's work."
Early union organizers are the primary reason that we now have laws to protect workers.
Think about it!

Bill Haslam actually is a decent guy and a good mayor. Perhaps for a small entrenched few wearing stitched-on partisan blinders, the possibility that Haslam's been good for Knoxville is too much of a heresy to reconcile with pre-conceived notions. For the rest of us, it's kind of reassuring to know there are still good people on both sides of the aisle who will work together to find the common good.

As for calling Neely's piece fluff, doesn't it seem somehow unreasonable to expect that Neely or anyone else would go about verbally hammering the winners of their publication's "best-of" contest in the actual "best-of" issue? Oddly, reading the piece, Neely sort of indicates that he did consider whether anyone has any major complaints about Bill Haslam, and found none. Maybe you're just all mad because he didn't ask you.

recognized in every country except the United States ... the holiday began in the 1880s in the United States, with the fight for an eight-hour work day.

And that would be because there was no way that the Chambers of Commerce throughout freedom's land/bravery's home would tolerate the commemoration of one of the first successful general strikes in the world.

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