May Day, 2006

Today is International Workers' Day all over the world. Here in America it's just another day. Somehow, even though this day commemorates a police riot in Chicago's Haymarket Square in 1886 that killed people on both sides. Funny how our Labor Day is the first Monday in September, and there's virtually no mention of May Day at all.

Except this year it's more in line with the rest of the world. Immigrants are staging a work stoppage for this day. I don't know yet the amount of participation, but I expect it to be significant. So, perhaps our immigrants remembered what we've forgotten: That May Day is an American day for workers to demand respect.