Today is Workers Memorial Day. It’s a day, in the words of Mother Jones, to “mourn for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”
Then Emma Goldman once said, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution”
Well we can mourn and we can fight, but it’s hard to dance in a blog.
But we can sing
Lyrics and music by Bobby Cumberland, former USWA safety steward. Idea by Saul Schneiderman, former AFSCME Local President.