#workers parade

[newyorkthegoldenage]

May 1 is International Workers' Day in more than 80 countries. In the U.S. in the 1920s and 1930s, socialist and Communist groups celebrated it, too. Here, women march in a column with upraised fists in a parade on May 1, 1935.

Photo: Murray Becker for the Associated Press

[amalgamasreal]

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Parade workers at Disneyland expressed concern over being asked to resume hugging visitors during the pandemic, while facing allegations of inadequate wages and work conditions.

The Actors' Equity Association will represent the workers in discussing improvements to health, safety, wages, benefits, working conditions, and job security.

Disney cast members' dreams came true as they formed a union to address concerns such as injuries from costumes and erratic schedules.

[federer7]

Workers’ Parade. México. 1926

Photo: Tina Modotti

[officialkendallroy]

i need like half of the people i go to uni with to die a miserable death

[martyrbat]

just got home (3pm) after being at the post office since 10 am and god i am so tired and cranky

[youruinedmylifebynotbeingreal]

I can’t believe I can’t watch RWBY as it premieres I am going to be amped up ALL DAY

[doux-amer]

Here's more info about the strike and an update about Jogernsyn Cardenas, the Amazon driver who got arrested because...he was unwilling to run over people (the workers on strike) with his van to get through and then tried to get out of his van when the cops trapped him inside it. Deranged logic.

[nando161mando]

"1st May: international workers' day" (EN: English)

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Thousands of spectators cheer as over a quarter of a million marchers show support for the National Recovery Administration (NRA) in a parade on Fifth Avenue on September 13, 1933. The NRA was part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal to institute industry-wide codes intended to eliminate unfair trade practices, reduce unemployment, establish minimum wages and maximum hours, and guarantee the right of labor to bargain collectively. The NRA ended when it was invalidated by the Supreme Court in 1935, but many of its provisions were included in subsequent legislation. The NRA flag, at the left, is the symbol of a Blue Eagle with the motto "We do our part." This view is looking north at 42nd St.

Photo: Associated Press

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"QUIET MAY DAY PARADE DRAWS 3,000 MARCHERS," Winnipeg Tribune. May 2, 1934. Page 5. --- Police Confine Efforts To Removing Provocative Banners ---- May Day passed quietly in Winnipeg, with a parade of some three thousand demonstrators. Despite the original police ban of the parade and subsequent permission to hold it, there was no trouble.

It was a big parade and well organized. Long before the official starting time, the Market Square was filled with men and women, who listened to speakers standing on trucks. There were many banners carrying such slogans as "Down with Imperialistic Wars" and Hands Off the Soviet Union." Chief Newton, however, quickly banned all such slogans, and ordered that none be carried in the parade except those bearing simply the names of organizations.

One parader who carried a banner attempted to elude the police. He rolled it up and did not unfurl it till the parade was under way. He unrolled it on Main st., but his triumph was short lived. A husky constable pulled him out of the line, and the offending banner was put away.

Begins Promptly Promptly at 7 p.m. the head of the parade moved off from Market Square, and by 7.20 the last of the marchers had left the Square. They marched south on Main st. to Portage, west to Vaughan st., south to Graham ave, and east to Main st. By 7.50 p.m. the head of the parade was again moving into the Market Square. There speakers again addressed the parade for half-an-hour.

Special detachments of police were on hand in case of trouble, but it never materialized, After the parade, speakers hurled defiance at capitalism and Fascism.

Taking a prominent part in the events were Alderman Jacob Penner, Communism's first representative on the city council since the defeat of W. Kolysnik some two years ago, and Andrew Bilecki, of the school board.

Children Cheer Lustily Children, more than 500 strong, in red caps, carrying red flags, sang and cheered with the greatest enthusiasm.

Infants in carriages and perambulators were much in evidence, as in previous years. One tot, aged about 18 months, was possibly the happiest me member the entire parade.

Sitting in his perambulator, with his little red cap, he smiled gayly as he waved a red flag with a small red-mittened hand.

Most of the children went home when the marchers congregated in Market Square for the speeches, but it was from the ranks of those in their early 'teens that the most vehement speakers were conscripted.

[stonelink-official]

Labor Day is a reminder that every job, big or small, is essential. Keep shining, you hardworking stars! 🌟

[divinerodentiastudios]

Today is the international labor day, or Mayday. This day is a holiday in most parts of the world, but not the United States. Why is that?

May 4th, 1886, Chicago. Workers were demonstrating in support for a new 8-hour work day standard. The

Demonstrations were at the start of it all peaceful. When the police tried to disperse the meeting, some unknown person threw a stick of dynamite at the police. The explosion and retaliatory gunfire caused the death of 7 police officers and 4 civilians, with dozens injured.

8 anarchists were charged with the bombing, and all of them convicted of conspiracy. The juditiary system did not have a solid case against the anarchists but convicted anyway. 7 were charged with the death sentence and the last one got 15 years. It is generally accepted fact that none of the anarchists threw the dynamite.

Grover Cleavland was concerned that having labor day on may 1st would strengthen socialist movements too much and therefore signed another date into law in 1894. This is why the American labor day is in september. He did not want people to be reminded of the day 11 people died to institute a 8 hour work day.

The 8 hour work day never materialized(well, it did but not until the new deal in 1933), and may 1st was chosen to honor the unjust sentencing of the anarchists, and the year after, the first Mayday was held.

All laws and regulations have been forged in blood, and nearly every time the bosses and business leaders have decried regulations. If we don't get to use child labor, we can't afford to operate. If the workday is reduced to 8 hours, profits will shrink. If we allow union meetings to take place, they will ask for too much and we'll be forced to close down. Yet, every time regulations have passed, the businesses continue to operate. For every pay increase that would put the Bosses in the poorhouse, profits have continued to rise.

Do not believe their lies, they'd rather you risk your life working with a dangerous machine for pittances and throw you out when their machine have injured or killed you than decrease profits by a tiny, tiny amount. Your lives are worth less than profits in the eyes of these ghouls. They will continue to kill our brothers and sisters unless someone stops them. Unless you unionize. Unless you demonstrate.

[thelonelyjew]

Pride banned Jews?!?

So it's that time of year again that I see people circulating stuff that is completely fabricated about what they imagine happened at Chicago Dyke March in 2017.

First, Dyke March is not Pride. It is not meant to be apolitical or single-issue. It is explicitly anti-imperialist, anticapitalist, and, yes, antizionist. It's not the big mainstream pride Parade that has corporate sponsors (and ads for gay tourism in Israel), it's a small radical grassroots demonstration.

Ok now that that's out of the way, they did not "ban Jews". I was there. They did not "ban Jewish symbols". They did not ask anyone to leave because of their Jewish pride flag.

What actually happened was three women who turned out to be employed by Israeli pinkwashing operation A Wider Bridge participated in the march with a rainbow flag that featured a blue star of david in the center. I remember seeing it and disliking it bc it gave me Zionist vibes but neither I nor anyone else bothered them about it.

After the march there was a cookout in the park. The women were asked to leave by a Jewish member of the Dyke March Collective after several hours of hanging out at the cookout because they were harassing other marchgoers.

Immediately publications like Forward, Tablet, JTA, as well as more mainstream publications started running stories making wild untrue claims which you can still read if you Google it because none of these were ever corrected or retracted. It's clear that these AWB agents had press releases pre-written and ready to fire as soon as they managed to provoke any reaction that they could spin into a controversy.

The photos that ran along with these headlines were also misleading. One of them showed a photo of a rainbow flag with a white star in the center. The star on the flag I saw was blue, and the shade of the star has specific political connotations. Showing a different flag with the politically significant color removed is extremely misleading. The one that was carried in the march (and which, again, wasn't banned!) looked like this:

Another banner image, this one in a New York Times article, showed a young woman with dark curly hair holding a sign that says "this is who we are". She was clearly chosen to feature because of her stereotypically Jewish features. The article implies that she is one of the supposedly banned Jews. This is false. You know how I know? Bc that was the friend I was there with that day! She does not identify as Jewish, she looks like that bc she is Italian, and she had no idea she was being photographed!

I had a hat decorated with red and black stars of David, and the following year a bunch of us wore Workers Circle sashes with Yiddish text (which uses the Hebrew alphabet) as well. No one who wasn't employed by a Zionist organization was asked to leave or even questioned about anything related to Zionism or Jewish identity.

I'm resigning myself to the fact that this is going to get dug up and passed around every year and people will believe what they want to believe, but if you hear claims that some queer group "banned Jews" or something similar, please look at the source for the information and if possible try to talk to actual Jewish people who participate in the community events being discussed. And if you hear this about Chicago Dyke March in specific, please correct people. I feel like I'm going insane when this many people are insisting that what I saw and experienced wasn't real and pointing to the barrage of misleading articles as what I should believe over my own experiences.

[atticcreationz]

Framing through the announcement video for the titles of what waits for us on Dropout in the new year! Not sure if any of these are a joke/misdirect but DELIGHTED if those new seasons are real and can't wait to see what these entirely new shows are like if they come out!

[somnoir]

Gotham's newest Crime Lord - Part 1

Prompt: Dan kills the joker and unintentionally becomes a crime lord

Dan didn't mean to become a Crime Lord. It wasn't his fault that the Joker was fragile and easily killable with one punch to the head. He didn't know that the seemingly immortal clown was easily killed once the impact practically snapped his neck. So yes, Dan didn't mean for this shit to happen. Not when all he wanted to do was go to college, make sure Danny and Elle weren't attracting trouble back in Gotham academy.

It wasn't his fault that the crazy bastard thought it was a good idea to nab his siblings and try to use them for ransom. It's not his fault that his first instinct was to introduce his first to that pennywise knock-off. It'd not his fault that this city was haunted by vengeful ghosts that wanted to tear that motherfucker to shreds.

They were supposed to lay low after the mess with their parents and their name changes.

But nooooo!

They had to have an absolute hatred for clowns and now he's somehow made himself a crime lord. Why the fuck were the Joker's goons so fucking stupid?! They either tried to kill Dan for killing their boss or they tried to fall under him and make him their new leader. It was like a fucking cult in his eyes. Seriously, what the absolute fuck was going on with this shitty city?

It's not like he could call Jazz and say "Hi sis! I killed a crazy clown and I'm now the boss of his weird goons. I also might end up on the local vigilante's hitlist."

Yeah, no. He's not doing that.

But this might not be so bad... Not really. Being their boss could be treated as a source of income if he utilized the Joker's shit properly. I mean, he couldn't always rely on the fruitloops money, not when Vlad could turn traitor and use the money against them. He needed to find a way to support his siblings, one way or another.

And Clockwork did say to get a hobby. If not mass genocide then he could resort to carefully planned crime. Yes. This could work. He'll make it fucking work for the sake of his siblings.

Besides, if he was a crime lord—in motherfucking Gotham—he doubts that the GIW will even try to fuck around in a city where a ghost controlled some part of the criminal underworld.

Oh... Oh, he was gonna fucking do this.

(Clockwork watched as his most troublesome child shifts from world ender to crime lord. At least it was an upgrade from mass genocide.)

Nightwing didn't particularly know what to make of this mess. There were rumors of a new crime lord, of a new rogue.

One day, Joker's body was dropped into the harbor and found by the workers, all confused and scared as to why the Clown Prince of crime was dead in the water. It was humiliating in the Joker's standards, to be discarded like trash into the sea rather than have his body displayed for everyone to gawk at. The clown would have adored being glorified but whoever the hell killed him knew this and fucked the guy up bad.

His head snapped and his corpse tossed out like leftovers.

Jason had laughed, outright celebrated and Crime Alley was as festive as it ever was with the Red Hood blasting music through the streets and partying like there was no tomorrow. All of Gotham was celebrating, parading through the streets with pinatas that looked like the Joker. Harley would drop down from whatever roof she was on and swing her bat at the pinata, spilling red candy as everyone cheered and laughed. It was morbidly glorious.

But the festivities didn't erase the fact that someone had killed the Joker and knew what to do to disrespect him in the worst ways possible. It wasn't long until Joker's old lackeys were rallying to someone—a new boss. It wasn't odd for goons without bosses to move on to find different jobs, but for all of Joker's old minions to work for the same person? This was definitely the guy who killed the Joker.

No name, no appearance, nothing. Just quiet activity with organising his new goons to do strange errands. Stuff that didn't point them in the direction of criminal activity.

"You got anything?" Dick murmurs as Tim slouches over the batcomputer, watching as his younger brother sneered at the screen.

"Nothing. Absolutely nothing." He snaps, "All footage of this new rogue is immediately corrupted."

Babs hums, "And it's not like it's altered after it's been taken. The distortion happens live. They either have some tech on them or they're a meta who can avoid cameras." She adds, taking a leisure sip of the tea Alfred kindly offered them. "Whoever this is doesn't leave a trace aside from this shitty footage."

Tim groans, "I officially hate this guy!" He almost tosses his mug out of anger, shaking his head.

"Does Jason have any info on this one?"

And like the fucking menace he was, Jason pops up without another word. "He goes by Wraith." No one was startled, just sparing him a glance before nodding.

"That's it?"

"The goonions adore him." Jason shrugs, "Guy's been quick. Dealing with shit like Black Mask and other trafficking operations. Some of the kids he's saved wear clothes that have this specific symbol on them. It's a good tactic mind you. Tells people to fuck off and don't come anywhere near the kid or else he'll sic whatever bullshit he has in someone."

Dick narrowed his eyes, "Is it effective?"

"Hell yeah! One of the kids got kidnapped just last week. I went to save the poor thing but he walked out of that warehouse while the kidnappers were bleeding and sobbing." Jason once again grins, "Little Tommy threatened me if I try to arrest Wraith."

"So more anti-heri than villain. Good enough, at least." Dick sighed, shaking his head as he narrowed his eyes on the screen. More distorted footage.

"Thanks for the info, little wing."

"Just updatin' you guys. Heard some rumors that Harley's on the hunt for Wraith to thank him."

Great...

It's been a solid two months since the death of the Joker. Batman and the rest of his birds were increasingly wary of the Wraith and his two new associates that went by Phantom and Specter. No footage on the three could ever be recovered, making them all assume this was the work of a meta.

Most of them weren't sure if this guy was a threat or not. Red Hood, on the other hand, had a fairly positive opinion on the guy who's been hanging traffickers by their legs and immediately staking their claim on the kid to keep them safe.

The new crime lord was slowly dismantling the criminal underworld and building it back up to their design.

"FUCKING HELL!" Dick glared at the screen again, "That's Wraith's doing, isn't it? No way did the Riddler blow up that building."

"Wraith's only been dealing with traffickers so far. Why would he do this?" Steph murmurs, staring at the recording of a building that had suddenly went off. Numerous were dead, some barely survived.

"That's the motherfucker's symbol." Dick pointed to the glowing green symbol that looked liked a fire with some obscure letter they couldn't really make out. (Was it a D or a P?)

"Okay... Why would Wraith blow up a building and kill everyone?" Jason immediately asked, seeming to be defensive of the man. "He doesn't just kill people, Dick."

"Even so..." Bruce grunts, clearly displeased with the bloodshed. All that death...

"We're going after him." Bruce announced, "I'm not putting of the Wraith investigation anymore."

Dan stared at the pictures of the bodies, pudding out smoke without a cigarette in sight. His new minions—they preferred the term goons—were clearly apprehensive and continued to observe their new boss's expressions. This explosion had been his first act of pure and utter violence, a massacre of sorts.

He glances at Danny who melted out of the shadows, startling his goons.

"Can't say I'm not upset but I get why you did that shit." He begrudgingly admits, sitting across Dan. Phantom was a reluctant associate to his new organization of crime—ish.

"They weren't just trafficking kids, squirt. Pimping them, killing them and selling their organs, hosting matches and making meta kids fight to the fucking death." Dan clicked his tongue, "No redemption in that, Phantom."

"I get it, alright!" Danny snapped, "But the you've gotten the direct attention of the Bats now. They're gonna come for us, Wraith."

"Boss?" One of the goons—Dan remembers him as Jeremy Nelson. One guy just trying to support himself and his kid, trying to keep his sweet little daughter in school with as much money as he could get. Dan remembers giving the man a raise and a jacket with their family's symbol stitched into it—one for little Marigold.

"I'll deal with it. For now, you guys spread the word on that shit. I don't want anyone thinking I killed a bunch of kids." Dan growled, "My reputation can burn for all care, but like hell am I letting people think I hurt kids."

With Jeremy leading the other goons, he nodded and hurried out of the office to spread a word. The former Joker goons had taken a liking to their new boss, preferring his ways rather than their dead one.

"Jazz won't like this, y'know." Danny sighs, "I'm not gonna tell her. Never. But she'll find out, one way or another."

Dan frowns, "You think I don't know? It's Jazz, Danny."

"Yeah, yeah. I just didn't expect you to be like this. Crime Lord and everything."

Dan snorts, "I was the world ender, brat. This is mild compared to what I've done."

"Yeah, sure."

He shook his head, "You've got your own problems, brat. The Observants are still fussin' about you being king, your majesty."

An identical scowl looks back at Dan, and he's reminded that this kid is him. An alternate version of himself and yet they were brothers now. "I know. You killing the Joker fucked some stuff up. Apparently, the motherfucker was cursed to hell."

"Meaning?"

"He's got a lifetime of people in his shadow. Vengefu souls that want him dead." Danny huffs, "Had to deal with the paperwork cause everyone's wantin' a taste of him. I'm workin' on letting Walker release him so his victims can execute his soul."

"Cruel, little king."

"I'll give you his file. Bastard deserves to have his soul destroyed." Danny viciously grins. And once again, best reminded that this twerp is him. They were one and the same, different as well.

"Alright, alright. Fuck off now. We've still got some bats and birds to deal with." Dan immediately showed him away, noting Danny's eye roll.

"Better prepare a birdcage then."

Part 2 | Masterlist