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May Day

May 1st, 2007 at 18:24

Today is May Day, International Workers’ Day, and a day of massive demonstrations in U.S. cities (for the second year in a row) in support of immigrant rights. Throughout the United States, it is also Law Day. The New York Times today ran the best editorial on Law Day that I’ve ever seen in a mainstream newspaper. “President Dwight Eisenhower established May 1 as Law Day to co-opt the biggest day on the socialist calendar. . . . It is marked today most notably by the American Bar Association, and it is perilously close to becoming a celebration of lawyers.”  And oh, yeah—it is also Loyalty Day.

One Response to “May Day”

  1. Ol' Dale Says:

    Huzzah! In the words of Clarence Darrow, “I am a friend of the working-man; and I would rather be his friend than to be one.”