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Because nothing says “grassroots” like hiring a bunch of tour buses: Immigration advocates expect roughly 1,000 Coachella Valley residents to caravan to Los Angeles on Saturday for a march protesting a new Arizona immigration law. “Nine tour buses spread throughout valley cities are scheduled to leave at 7 a.m. ‘We have to demonstrate that we care as a group. People have to realize it’s time to protest before they start doing the same thing in California. We have to act now,’ said Rosalio Plata, president of Club Michoacan, a community civics organization helping sponsor the trip. In past years, immigrants...

Protest organizers on Wednesday said outrage over the Arizona law -- which seeks to drive illegal immigrants out of the state bordering Mexico -- has galvanized Latinos and would translate into a higher turnout for May Day rallies in more than 70 U.S. cities. "The marches and demonstrations are going to be far more massive than they otherwise would have been," said Juan Jose Gutierrez, a Los Angeles rally organizer who runs an immigration assistance company. The backlash began on Friday after Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law a measure that requires state and local police to determine a...

[Snip]It is no accident that April 22, Earth Day, is also the birth date of Vladimir Lenin, an acolyte of Karl Marx, the lunatic who invented communism as an alternative to capitalism. [Snip] Earth Day is naked communism. [Snip] To begin, it substitutes a worship of the Earth, Gaia, for the worship of God, creator of the universe and the instructor of moral behavior for mankind. [Snip] It is the infrastructure of a New World Order. Do not celebrate Earth Day. Denounce it.[Snip]

Earth Day on April 22 isn’t just about environmental rallies and the mounds of trash in their wake. It’s also a reminder that there’s a lot of green to be made from green companies. The IBD 100 list of the very best stocks based on fundamental and technical factors includes several eco-friendly firms: 3. Aixtron (AIXG) The German company makes equipment used to make LED, or light-emitting diode, chips. LEDs are fast gaining steam as a green lighting alternative. They use far less power than incandescent bulbs without the mercury of fluorescents. LED chips are used in many different types...

A MELBOURNE bookstore has sparked outrage after being discovered selling a "control a woman" remote - on International Women's Day. The ABC reported Borders was forced to defend the $15 novelty product after a woman told of her anger at seeing it during last week's celebration of female rights and achievements. Katie Robertson told ABC Radio she was "troubled" by the toy, "mainly because it encourages a stereotype of women as submissive, who are to be controlled". "There are certain buttons on there. For example, the male may decide that he wants beer, sex or food," she said. "He may...

PARIS – Hundreds of thousands of European workers feeling the pinch of the economic crisis rallied at May Day protests Friday from Moscow to Berlin to Istanbul. Violence and clashes between police and angry protesters disrupted some events, including in Greece, Germany and Turkey. But overall participation fell ...

ISTANBUL, May 1 May Day protesters clashed with riot police in Germany, Turkey and Greece on Friday while thousands angry at the government's responses to the global financial crisis took to the streets in France. Rising unemployment across Europe and beyond has added intensity to May Day marches as last year's market crash and banking meltdown rolls into the real economy. There were early morning clashes in Germany and protests in Istanbul swiftly turned violent. Greek police clashed with self-styled anarchists. Turkish riot police fired water cannon and tear gas, firing shots and pepper spray to disperse masked protesters. Young...

Have you ever wondered how all of these Democrats can drive around in their big cars, live in their huge homes and fly all around the world in private jets with no guilt? Up until now it’s been a closely guarded secret. Hi, Billy Mays here again -this time for the one product that will allow you too, to live the energy wasting lifestyle you’ve always dreamed about, but were too eco-conscious to pursue. Green is good and what could be more green than planting a tree, saving an endangered species’ habitat or building a windmill? Nothing! Nothing could be...

President Barack Obama walks with former President Bill Clinton after he planted a tree while participating in a national service project at Kenilworth Aquatic Garden in Washington, Tuesday, April 21, 2009. At rear is Vice President Joe Biden President Barack Obama, who had finished planting his tree, walks over to watch first lady Michelle Obama plant a tree with volunteers as they participate in a national service project at Kenilworth Aquatic Garden in Washington, Tuesday, April 21, 2009. President Barack Obama watches as former President Bill Clinton plants a tree as they participate in a national service project at Kenilworth...

Some of the media elites gave old-fashioned patriotism a clout to the jaw on May 1, May Day.  When a reporter for a major American television network calls Fidel Castro “Cuba’s revolutionary hero,” without a hint of irony, you know that somebody’s confused about what’s honorable and patriotic.In May Day reports from Havana, CBS correspondent Liz Palmer managed to utter the oxymoronic phrase not once but twice, on CBS’s The Early Show and again on the CBS Evening News.  Palmer also praised new dictator Raul Castro’s efforts to “improve workers’ lives.”Leaders of communist revolutions are not heroes.  Without exception,...

LAPD Acts Against Elite Police Squad Los Angeles Police Chief Says Elite Officers In May Day Melee Off The Street, Will Face Consequences LOS ANGELES, May 7, 2007 This video image provided by KVEA/Telemundo shows KCAL cameraman Carl Stein on the ground during a police response during an immigrants rights rally, Tuesday May 1, 2007, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/KVEA/Telemundo) (AP) Police Chief William Bratton said Sunday that up to 60 members of an elite squad that swarmed into a park and fired rubber bullets during a May Day immigration rally are no longer on the street. Bratton said he spent...

This year, as ever, campuses nationwide are sponsoring or supporting May Day demonstrations on behalf of immigrants in America who may or may not be here legally. Google the phrase “campus May Day demonstrations” and we will get 32,400,000 entries. Federal officials charged with enforcing U. S. immigration law, meanwhile, are sending up their own distress signals. “Immigration-related felony cases are swamping federal courts along the Southwest border, forcing judges to handle hundreds more cases than their peers elsewhere,” Jennifer Talhem of the Associated Press reports. “Judges in the five, mostly rural judicial districts on the border carry the heaviest...

HAVANA - There was no sign of a convalescing Fidel Castro as hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched through Havana's Revolution Plaza to celebrate May Day, casting new doubts on his recovery and whether he will return to power. Tuesday marked only the third time in nearly five decades that Castro has missed the sweeping International Workers' Day festivities — a major celebration here and around the world. While recent images of Castro meeting with Chinese leaders indicated he had improved considerably since undergoing emergency surgery nine months ago, his absence at the parade through the Revolution Plaza raised questions...

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/bdaz01/1c18042.jpg[/IMG] TRANSLATION: For the moment we have the backing of ten states of the American Union who stand against the roundups. These states are clearly part of the campaign against roundups. These states are, Rhode island, Massachussets, California, Texas, South Carolina, Kentucky, Nevada, Atlanta Georgia, New mexico, Florida, and we expect that in the following days we will be joined by more states, organizations, politicians, syndicates, churches, businesses, in this noble cause that concerns all of us. The 22 institutions, organizations, media, churches, syndicates, politicians, businessess and more...YES WE CAN!!! Julio César Aragón Presidente de la Asociación Social, Cultural y...

May 1st, International Workers' Day, commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world, and is recognized in every country except the United States, Canada, and South Africa. This despite the fact that the holiday began in the 1880s in the United States, with the fight for an eight-hour work day. In 1884, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions passed a resolution stating that eight hours would constitute a legal day's work from and after May 1, 1886. The resolution called for a general strike to achieve the goal, since legislative methods had already failed. With workers...

Los Angeles (AP) -- Immigration activists are calling for a repeat of last year's massive boycott and march that drew more than 1 million people to the streets in dozens of cities nationwide. The so-called "Great American Boycott II" was being planned for May 1, organizers said Monday. The first protest, which occurred May 1, 2006, temporarily shuttered businesses and schools across the country as people took to the streets in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and other cities. The boycott was fueled by anger over federal legislation that would have criminalized illegal immigrants and fortified the U.S.-Mexico border. The goal...

This should be a list of who is planning to close their business on Monday, May 1 in response of the Great American Boycott. We should compile it and boycott them ourselves if possible! Remember to go shopping or work overtime on May 1!

<p>Courtney Dicmas showed up with her tenor sax on the streets of south Minneapolis on Sunday and took her place among the people and puppets that became the 29th May Day parade.</p> <p>For a mile they marched through stiff winds and cold, winding up at Powderhorn Park, where hundreds of spectators sat huddled under umbrellas and welcomed spring -- spring? -- to the Twin Cities through the good offices of the sponsoring In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre.</p>

Labor Day 2002: A Modest Proposal By Joseph J. Sabia Published 9/2/2002 Today, millions of Americans celebrate Labor Day by staying home, watching television, barbecuing, and producing almost nothing of value. It is the perfect socialist holiday -- nobody does anything and everybody pretends to be hard workers. What is so magical and wonderful about laborers? Why don't we have CEO Day? Or Entrepreneur Day? In capitalist America, we ought to be celebrating the risk takers, the innovators, and the noble heroes that have created the wealthiest nation in the history of mankind. Instead, we are paying homage to the...