[lbo-talk] May Day Video

[Max Sawicky]

DC MayDay was pretty laid back. About 400 people, mostly hippies, mostly
young. I only hung around for a couple of hours. They were going to march
after I left.  Explicitly anarchist and worker-y rhetoric, the Haymarket
martyrs, that sort of thing. There was a dance around a maypole, and no I
was not among the dancers. Three guys in an animated argument on the park
bench next to mine -- a black nationalist, a DC statehood guy, and a
Christian (all African-American). It went from reform v. revolution to the
Meaning of Life.  Oddly the black nationalist had a '99%' t-shirt
(shouldn't it have been the 15%?).  Tables set up by the SWP, PLP, and DSA.
The latter by a friend of mine who used to be in the Labor Party ("What the
hell."). A speech by a transit worker (lady bus driver, in her uniform)
that was a SWP-PLP wet dream -- totally radical rhetoric.

In general my feeling is the movement is still evolving, though DC is not
much of a hotbed.

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Sean Andrews <cultstud76 at gmail.com> wrote:


> Nice work.  It really takes off once you start your narration.  I
> think that is probably the most compelling element in the sense that
> much of the first part of the story is familiar.  A bit
> counterintuitive that you connect this mostly to the digital commons,
> but a good overview of that concept as well.
>
> I personally think you should always refer to yourself as Dennis
> Redmond, translator of Adorno's Negative Dialectics, but I'm sure
> you've moved on. Either way, if you were creating a revision, you
> might include an overview of this work you've done in seeding the
> digital commons.
>
> thanks for your work.
>
> sean
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:21, Dennis Redmond <metalslorg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Back from May Day events? Enjoy some fan-created video:
> >
> > http://rutube.ru/tracks/5582603.html
> >
> > Created on a budget of precisely zero. But I had to create it. To stay
> > sane. (And yes, there are reasons it exists on a Eurasian server. I'm
> > trying to follow Brecht's advice: always stay one step ahead of the
> > Enemy)
> >
> > -- DRR
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