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Monday, May 01, 2006
Happy May Day
:: Posted by Bryan @ 5/01/2006 02:44:00 AM 
For May Day, a few notes:
1. The holiday had it's start in Canada in 1872 in a protest against the imprisonment of members of a typographers union. From a pagan festival, May Day became associated with the Left and several important events, like the Chicago Haymarket Riot, have occurred on this date.
2. Outside of Ian Orenstein, there haven't been too many comics in English about strikes or May Day --try to find General Strike comics.
3. Since there are several anti-war protests scheduled today, it is only fitting to link to info on Sabrina Jones' (WW3 Illustrated, Wobblies) Mixed Signals anti-recruitment comics.
4. 2004 protests in Berlin featured a spray-can-weilding Lisa Simpson.
5. The climax of the first volume of Berlin (City of Stones) by Jason Lutes is the May Day riots of 1929.
See last year's article: Canadian May Day CartoonsLabels: links
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