No Google graphic for today, apparently
Not sure if it's my bookmarks being wonky or their site not caring for lynx, but it's been a while since I've been able to read MediaChannel.org | News Dissector Web Log:
Happy May Day. If you are a worker outside the United States in many parts of the world (save China this year because of SARS) this is a holiday you mark by marches and meetings It was an actually a holiday birthed by activists and anarchists in the US in the 1880’s as part of the fight for the 8 hour day which is now being eroded.Like many a progressive innovation, May Day was soon negated. Labor Day at summer’s end was conceived as a safer substitute to replace the whiff of insurgency in the streets with the smell of barbecue at back yard picnics. And then in 1958. May Day itself was officially proclaimed Law Day by President Eisenhower after being lobbied by the American Bar Association. And this year, we go higher, keeping with the evangelical spirit of the Messiah in Chief, Congress has proclaimed today NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER.
The History of Mayday page at the May Day 2003 site (which is in Canada, naturally) features a link to May Day - the REAL Labor Day by Jackie Dana:
All of the privileges workers enjoy today—a minimum wage, safety laws, and even an eight-hour workday—came about only with the sacrifice of the workers who came before us. Although the government prefers our collective amnesia, workers on this May Day should remember our past and realize that we too are part of an ongoing struggle to bring about an end to the exploitation of labor around the world.
If you wanted to know more.
Not sure what it means that the sole item on my schedule for today is taking a test at a (if not the) temporary agency.
Perhaps it means nothing, and I worry too much.
Had a quick look at Africana for an entry on May Day. There doesn't appear to be one, but it was a quick look. They do list the following events under This Day In Africana History:
1805: Virginia requires freed slaves to leave the state.1925: Opportunity magazine presents its first literary awards. Reflecting the creativity of the Harlem Renaissance, prizes go to Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston.
1950: Gwendolyn Brooks receives the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Annie Allen, the first African American to win this recognition.
Among others. All of which deserve more time and attention than I'm capable of giving them at the moment.
Correction: than I should be giving them at the moment. Giles notwithstanding, attending to this site ain't exactly a lucrative income-generating way to spend the day. . .