Today, May 1st, is May Day. Far too many Americans think May Day is a foreign holiday, or don’t even know what it is. Apparently, however, Europeans know how to kick it May Day style. May Day was the first international labor holiday, but it is about workers around the world standing in solidarity with us. It celebrates the Americans who died for our eight hour work day, both in the infamous Haymarket Riot in Chicago, and the executions that followed. While trade unionists in America don’t get killed too often these days, it’s a little different in Colombia. You remember Colombia, don’t you? That’s the country that recently rocketed up past Turkey to take the number three spot for US military aid, right behind perennial favorites Israel and Egypt.
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