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Tag Archives: american dream
Long Hot Summer
by toritto Do you think we’d see the light if sunshine cost the wealthy something or would we live in blackest night outside the gates and out of sight while stepping over homeless vets, passing the line at the free … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged America, american dream, Ferguson, homeless, hungry, income disparity, poetry, police brutality, poor, poverty, tar beach
5 Comments
Does Labor Day Honor Labor Anymore?
March 6, 1930 – thousands demonstrate for unemployment insurance in Union Square and nationwide – led by the communists. Did you think government just gave it to you? Wake up and smell the coffee. It’s Labor Day! End of Summer, … Continue reading
Posted in history
Tagged "honoring labor", "middle class", american dream, class, communists, Haymarket, history, labor day, lack of solidarity, March 6, politics, President Grover Cleveland, proletariat, Pullman Strike, shooting down strikers, solidarity, unemployment insurance, Union Square, unions, workers
11 Comments
Unemployment Insurance Makes You Shiftless!
Staring at the pile of bills doesn’t make ‘em any smaller shufflin the envelopes doesn’t get the mortgage paid. Out o’ work a whole year now running out of unemployment must apply for food stamps soon get the kids on … Continue reading
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