5.1.04 may

Happy May Day! I was raised to believe that it is a crime to cross a picket line; today my thoughts are with my friends on strike - from graduate students to grocery workers, I wish you all well in your fight for benefits and a fair wage.

New on Hipmama.com:

How Can They Make History So Boring? Emma Goldman, May Day, and The American Experience
by Gordon Edgar
Was Goldman seen by other anarchists as making the anarchist movement too middle class because she was interested in birth control and sex, i.e. womens issues? Goldman is a wonderful feminist icon, partly because she realized that a strictly class-based revolution would still leave women unequal in society.
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