New York – May 1st, often called May Day, might have more holidays than any other day of the year. It’s a celebration of Spring, but mostly it’s known as a day of political protests marked around the world as international workers’ day with marches demanding more jobs, better working conditions and higher wages.
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In Turkey, About 200,000 workers gathered in Istanbul’s Taksim Square in the largest May Day rally there since 1977.
In South Korea, police said 50,000 rallied in Seoul for better labor protections. They also urged the government to contain rising inflation, a growing concern across much of Asia, where food and oil prices have been spiking and threatening to push millions into poverty.
Thousands of workers also marched in Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Philippines to vent their anger over the rising cost of living and growing disparities between the rich and poor.
In the Philippines, about 3,000 workers demanding higher wages held a protest in a Manila square that included setting alight the effigy of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III grinning in a luxury car. Aquino was criticized this year for buying a secondhand Porsche in a country where a third of people live on a dollar a day.
In Spain, where the unemployment has reached a eurozone high of 21.3 percent, several thousand people gathered in the eastern port city of Valencia and protested the government’s failure to create new jobs.
In Moscow, up to 5,000 Communists and members of other leftist groups marched through the city carrying a sea of red flags to celebrate their traditional holiday, what in Soviet times was known as the Day of International Solidarity of Workers.
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And Americans sit back and do nothing. We don’t demand anything from our government. We allow ourselves to be taken advantage of. We don’t demand better wages, we don’t demand a government that isn’t invested everywhere but America. We wanna start more wars than we wanna end. We allow ourselves to be treated like slaves to our government and in return we pay taxes and get nothing to show for it. Not to mention we allow a shadowy organization like the Federal Reserve control our money.
Land of the free…