[lbo-talk] LA's Two May Day Marches

[Michael Pugliese]

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?bid=15&pid=81085
http://marccooper.com/maravilloso/   and from Marc Cooper
>..One aspect that made Monday's march so attractive, at least to me,
is that this was an authentic demonstration of workers, for workers
and by workers. So many other protests are, to tell the truth, lightly
disguised acts of noblesse oblige -- middle-class and student
activists demonstrating on behalf of this or that other group, or for
some abstract cause. How refreshing it was, then, to be among scores
of thousands of ordinary people protesting on their own behalf. No
need for the usual paraphernalia of your standard lefty march. No
giant puppets. No freaky costumes and face paint. None of the
self-indulgent counter-cultural poses and postures. No Radical
Cheerleaders, thank God. Not a single Free Mumia poster. No sad sacks
hawking copies of the Revolutionary Worker. And, best of all, no
endless roster of professional activist speakers on the dais shouting
out their single-issue slogans, nor a gaggle of frustrated and
self-righteous movie stars hogging the mikes.

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Michael Pugliese