A Spoonful Weighs a Ton
And so well the Flaming Lips concert was quite a spectacle with giant balloons, confetti, a smoke machine, people dressed in animal costumes, teletubbies on a video screen and considerable amounts of loud music. Rather enjoyable.
Thursday, of course, was May Day and I completely forgot to write about it when I sat down in front of the machine. So here goes: "What May Day means to me" by: alpha charlie bravo [clears throat] ... [Pinter pause] ... well, anyway i think it's important to remember that people died for the 8 hour work week.
A few years ago a graduate student at Norhwestern with whom I was acquainted, wrote and directed a play about the labor riot at Haymarket Square in Chicago in 1886 and the dubious conviction of eight men and execution of four implicated in the riot. The riot ocurred on May 4, three days after national protests for an 8 hour work day, on May 1. Considering that this is local history, besides its significance to the international labor movement, I probably should have known more about it. But at the time I knew next to nothing about Haymarket and its place in labor history. For more information: visit The Chicago Historical Society Haymarket Affair Digital Collection.
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