Happy Labor Day.
The Reveres, September 1, 2008
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Today is a federal holiday in the United States, the one we call "Labor Day." In most countries the labor movement celebrates on May 1 (May Day), but the origin of the US holiday ironically was in Canada where the fight for the nine-hour working day in the 1870s was celebrated at the end of summer…
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The Reveres, New Year's Eve, 2009
The Reveres, November 11, 2008, year five of the War in Iraq and year seven of the War in Afghanistan
I like it.
Solidarity forever.
Well......They do say that Unions only grow when the country's government is lack lustre or ineffectual.
Solidarity forever.