May Day, mayday.


originally published May Day 2024, revised May Day 2025


workers of the world, unite!


The Haymarket Memorial 125th anniversary plaque dedication
April 30, 2011.
photo: by author

humans of the Earth, unite!


To The Comfortably-Numbed,

Petit Bourgeoisie:

“No Business As Usual During Genocide” — or — FASCISM!

15,000

no 30,000

Palestinian children, were murdered, not “died”

in seven, nineteen, months’ time.

300,000 — or more in Gaza on threshold of death by intentional starvation with consent of The West

you flaunt your epicurean life

while the workers and students and poets
and artists, all,
groundswell, to resist this violent, white tide,

// of the IDF

home and abroad,

training ICE

& your local SWAT precinct,

to disappear and deport //

and crucially, to liberate you — of the occupier & cop — living in your mind.



this is in fact,

the marketplace of one [1] singular idea:

Land.

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a breakneck, yet-always foregone conclusion

The rapidity with which this Trump administration moves — for those who had accepted incremental change, bureaucratic molasses and the long arc of justice as just par-for-the-course of the ‘democratic’ process and social progression in the US — those falsehoods and everything else that has been revealed in these last two months — is both mockery and insult added to our collective American (and global) actual injuries.

Capitalism and Neoliberalism paved the road for — and then engineered and constructed the super highway to, oligarchal fascism.

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Our Sacred Heart of Courage & Justice, Santa Luigi : for domestic & international use.

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