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emmbrr · 1 year

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happy beltane & may day! 🌿

#my art #artists on tumblr #illustration #art #beltane #bealtaine #folk art #procreate #cottagecore #maypole #may day #quilt borders #goat

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1mnobodywhoareyou · 4 days

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ok tumblr.

settle a disagreement

(if it doesn't even have a name where you live, select the 'no' option please!)

(if YOU have to work but most people in your region don't, select the yes option)

reblog for sample size! THANK YOUUUUUUUU

(i forgot to change the time this runs for NOOOOOOO)

#polls #may day #ok battling the anxiety and.... POST NOW

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politijohn · 2 years

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Look at this winning streak

#unions #working class #current events #solidarity #news #unionize #the left #Starbucks #Amazon #international workers day #may 1 #may day

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erensbich · 11 months

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come on! go easy on the kid, he had a terrible teacher

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amatesura · 1 year

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Grace Jones and Christopher Walken in A View to a Kill (1985)

#a view to a kill #filmedit #80sedit #bondedit #007edit #filmgifs #grace jones #christopher walken #james bond #max zorin #may day #*

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without-ado · 1 year

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Your May Day Moon l Roger Hyman (May 1st 2023)

#moon #may day #space #nasa #astrophotography #astronomy #solar system #stars #night #sky #galaxy #planets #universe #international labor day

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whywalkwhenyoucanride · 1 year

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#international workers day #may day #first of may #socialism #i felt inspired by theoccasion

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lazycowboynerd · 1 year

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It's gonna be

#it's gonna be may #it's gonna be mei #turning red #may day

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lepetitdragonvert · 2 months

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Queen Guinevere’s Maying

1900

Artist : John Maler Collier (1850-1934)

#john maler collier #john collier #english artist #english art #arthurian legend #arthurian lore #guinevere #guenièvre #1900 #idylls of the king #may day #procession #cortège

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thefugitivesaint · 2 years

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Happy May Day all. Solidarity and all that jazz. For your brain, some history on May Day and how it came to be: 1. The Zinn Education Project: May 4, 1886: Haymarket Tragedy

2. IWW Historical Archives: The Brief Origins of May Day

3. NPR : What is May Day? For the most part, the opposite of capitalism

#may day #unionization #star trek #star trek memes #iww #elmer season

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todayontumblr · 1 year

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Monday May 1.

May Day.

Today is a day that requires little introduction. It is #may day, otherwise known as #international workers day or Labour Day. Celebrated every year on May 1, or the first Monday of May, it marks a day of celebration and solidarity between laborers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labor movement. It is a national public holiday in many countries across the world and has a fascinating, inspiring history. The Marxist International Socialist Congress met in Paris in 1889, where they established the Second International as a successor to the International Workingmen's Association. It was here they established a resolution for a "great international demonstration" to support demands for an eight-hour working day from the working classes. Today's date, May 1, was selected by the American Federation of Labor to mark a general strike in the United States. This strike began on this date in 1886, and subsequently became an annual event. In 1904, the Sixth Conference of the Second International called for "all Social Democratic Party organizations and trade unions of all countries to demonstrate energetically on the First of May for the legal establishment of the eight-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for universal peace". But it is not just consigned to history, by any means, because #may day continues to this day.

There are strikes, marches, rallies, and protests across the world today marking May Day. The struggle continues, but today is also the celebration. Wherever you are across the world, and however you're spending International Worker's Day 2023, we wish you love, light, and solidarity in the fight for better.

#today on tumblr #may day #international workers day #marxism #socialism

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eric-i-guess · 10 months

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"That kid's an anarchist"

Headcanon that Hobie babysits Mayday and reads her theory as a bedtime story, this is canon to me

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elennemigo · 1 year

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Happy International Labour Day! / Feliz día Internacional del Trabajo! 🛠️

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geopsych · 1 year

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We made it to May. Happy May and happy Beltane to those who celebrate it!

#pennsylvania #landscape #may #may day #springtime

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ex0skeletal-undead · 1 year

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Beltane, Walpurgis Night (Walpurgisnacht), and May Day illustrations by Iren Horrors

This artist on Instagram

#art #illustration #digital art #dark art #pagan #witch #beltane #walpurgisnacht #may day #fantasy #mythology #folklore #demon #wings #horns

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decolonize-the-left · 20 days

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GENERAL STRIKE TIME BABEY. READ THE WHOLE POST.

While we're all mad at government sending money to Israel that police budgets are so inflated because of how often they pay settlements.

And also that it's a verified fact that our police train with Israeli soldiers. Remember when they were black bagging people in PDX? It reminded me of this ex-Israeli soldier talking about how they'd do the same thing to innocent Palestinians just to terrorize them and their neighbors. It was intentional terrorism when they did it.

Police budgets pay for all that.

Correction, we pay.

To put it more bluntly,

We pay for them to kill and terrorize people.

Just as our taxes pay for the deaths of Black and Brown people all over the world from Turtle Island to Sudan and Palestine.

In Dec. 2022, Louisville Metro Government agreed to pay Walker $2 million to settle lawsuits against the city. Metro government previously paid a $12 million settlement to Taylor’s family in Sept. 2020

We paid for Breonna Taylor's death.

And her murderers were never arrested btw. Not that there aren't still people trying to arrest them of course. But our money paid for their lawyers and wouldn't you know it, no charges have stuck.

Four years to the day after Breonna Taylor’s death, federal prosecutors are moving forward with a re-trial of one of the officers involved in the botched raid that ended her life. At a status conference Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings scheduled Brett Hankison’s final pre-trial hearing for September 13th. His re-trial is scheduled to begin on Oct. 15. In November of last year, Hankinson was tried for violating the Constitutional rights of Breonna Taylor, her boyfriend, and three neighbors when he fired through two covered windows during the raid. Prosecutors argued he used excessive force when he shot into the apartment complex blindly. Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, had fired at officers executing the search, claiming he thought they were intruders.

And Myles Cosgrove?

Yeah we're paying him to terrorize more people. He got a job as a fucking sheriff's deputy.

Myles Cosgrove, the former Louisville police officer, who was fired for fatally shooting Breonna Taylor in a botched 2020 police raid and hired earlier this year as a sheriff’s deputy in Carroll County, rammed a resident’s truck with his cruiser Monday and then pointed a gun at the owner and several bystanders, witnesses said.

Witnesses told The Courier Journal that Cosgrove barreled into Happy Hollow Private Resort Park trailer park at a high rate of speed without his emergency lights on, then struck William Joshua Short’s pickup truck with such force that it sent the vehicle flying into a building, breaking off two cinder blocks.

And Johnathan Mattingly wrote a fucking book about it to make money off of his role in her murder. $15 on Amazon.

He also wanted to sue Kenneth Walker, Breonna's boyfriend. You know why? For damages and injuries he sustained while killing Breonna Taylor.

WE PAID FOR ALL THAT. ALL OF IT.

Our power is in our dollar.

American politics and officials don't care for our lives. It's why they're content to watch us protest for months. Because we're still going to work. We are the worker ants simply fulfilling our duty, receiving the bare minimum to survive for our labor.

We're still building their bombs. Paying our taxes, so much that hardly any of us could afford more than rent.

We are just drones fulfilling our purpose to the upper class who doesn't give a shit about us beyond what we do for them and how little we will do it for.

If we want change we're gonna have to stop working. We're going to have to deprive them of products they sell, of our taxes, of our low cost labor.

And the strike that UAW is planning in May 2028 has inspired a lot of others to start looking at the opportunity to join in.

If you haven't heard of it yet, a strike is when workers organize and stop showing up for work. And a general strike is a mass strike across various industries around similar demands or bargaining positions.

There have been multiple calls for a general strike since then, predominantly from individuals and groups on social media, which has often resulted in confusion about what a general strike would actually look like. To be clear, a general strike is not a protest or a rally, a single picket line, or a boycott. It is, as I’ve previously defined, “a labor action in which a significant number of workers from a number of different industries who comprise a majority of the total labor force within a particular city, region, or country come together to take collective action.”

Throughout history, workers have used this tactic as a nuclear option to shut down entire cities when needed, including Philadelphia in 1835, Seattle in 1919, and beyond.[...]

If even four or five of the unions representing the workers mentioned above banded together in a nationwide general strike, the entire country would grind to a halt. When Shawn Fain asks his fellow unions to set the timer for May 2028, what he’s really saying is, get ready to shut sh*t down and level the playing field between bosses and workers once and for all.

JOIN A UNION. AND TALK ABOUT THIS.

And make one of the demands out to be an end of American support to countries participating in apartheid and genocide.

End the taxes for police budgets and settlements. If they want police departments so bad then they should FIND funding for themselves like the government makes USPS do.

One of the biggest pushbacks we hear is that there is never any official backing for calls to a general strike. Well here it is! Make sure you tell EVERYONE

This could be a global strike if other countries choose to participate on the same date

No, I don't think Palestine has 3 years so in the mean time join a union, keep protesting, start rioting, answer Every call to action coming from a Palestine and Sudan and the DRC and sign this strike card

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