May Day

[maeve66]

A friend from Chicago -- a former LJer, in fact -- oblomova, whom I miss quite a lot... anyway, she posted a Happy May Day on Facebook, and talked about the Haymarket anarchists, their graves, and Emma Goldman and Ben Reitman's graves, out at what was, when I was little and went there several times on family outings, Waldheim Cemetery. Apparently now they

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[sabotabby]

Oh wow, well-made protest footage! Thanks for posting this.

It does feel like we're on the edge of something. I'm so used to there being absolutely no large, let alone mass, movement of working people in North America, and Wisconsin-and the elections here-are giving me a faint little spark of hope.

à propos

[maeve66]

of your icon: Joe Hill was hott. What's that website about hot dead guys? He should be on that -- it featured Eugene V. Debs not long ago...

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[sabotabby]

There's a website for hot dead guys? I have a bunch of historical crushes, Joe Hill being one of them.

Re: à propos

[maeve66]

It took me a LONG time to find this link. It's just some category from someone's blog. But it's nicely formatted, and I mostly like their choices. Unlike the other site titled Cute Dead Guys (this one is Hot Dead Guys, by mere musings), this one is not devoted to gross out death scenes. I can do without those.

http://noelcordle.wordpress.com/category/hot-dead-guys/