Hard-HEADS and Dope-heads is more like it...
Posted on 10/14/2011 2:26:36 PM PDT by mdittmar
After decades in which “hard hats” were described as enemies of the left, and four decades after construction workers in lower Manhattan attacked anti-war demonstrators on Wall Street, the AFL-CIO on Thursday called on its members to defend Occupy Wall Street from the NYPD as the city moved to arrest and evict protestors in Zuccotti Park.
Hard hats and hippies—together at last.
And when Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the NYPD backed off, the AFL-CIO rightly took some of the credit for what union leadership called “an amazing victory.”
“The AFL-CIO Stands with Occupy Wall Street,” president Rich Trumka declared as police announced plans to move in. The federation e-mailed members in the New York area on Thursday, NY1 reported, urging them to come to Zucotti Park and “stand guard” overnight to defend the encampment from the NYPD. “Support” doesn’t get more direct than that.
The unions also sponsored an online petition, and, after the mayor backed off, reported “hundreds of thousands” of signatures.
Today’s events marked the sharpest possible contrast to the day in May 1970, when students protesting the Kent State Killings gathered on Wall Street, and were attacked by two hundred construction workers carrying American flags and chanting “All, the way, USA!” and “We’re number one!” Rick Perlstein tells what happened in his book Nixonland: while police stood by, the workers beat students with lead pipes wrapped in flags, targeting those with the longest hair. A crowd of a thousand Wall Street workers cheered them on. “Thank God for the hard hats!” President Nixon declared, and invited Peter Brennan, head of the Building Trades Council of New York, to the White House.
I always wondered whether that hard hat action had been organized by the White House “dirty tricks” department—especially after a memo was leaked in which Nixon staffer Stephen Bull wrote to Chuck Colson, Nixon’s key political operative, “Obviously more of these will be occurring throughout the nation, perhaps partially as a result of your clandestine activity.” But the media declared, virtually unanimously, that the white union members were pro-war Nixon supporters.
Decades of de-industrialization followed by two years of economic collapse have brought disaster to the working class—and now a new political reality. And it's not just in New York City—AFL-CIO unions across the country have endorsed Occupy Wall Street and joined actions in their communities.
They need to use that new skunk spray.
Oh man you are NOT going to believe this..!!!
I put in subtitles so you can fully behold the sheer insanity on display:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr7oCCAw26E
Transvestite sophist couple expound on the reasons why they’re at Occupy Philedelphia..! Niiiice..!!
One guy is wearing a MAO army suit. The other man/woman is even weirder.
Period. End of sentence.
(I have no idea what this guy was talking about. This is your brain on drugs)
Yes, focus on the extinct “hardhats” of the ‘60s—we Neanderthal patriarchs of evil heterosexuality hated, even in memoriam, by the favored, sexually confused, globalist constituents of both political parties and government-linked service corporations of today. Don’t look at the increasing bipartisan federal funding for local teachers, police, planners, merchants, importers, building officials, firepersons, social workers, other environmentalists and social engineers—your heroes self-described as “conservative.”
Shove politics. No sale. No vote. Suck your revenues, default, and go away.
Kinda sad really,but not surprising,The American Federation of Teachers is a AFL-CIO Union,and they support Occupy Wall Street.
Somebody forgot to tell the transgender maoist freak that he’s gonna make one ugly ass woman.
The union LEADERSHIP has always sided with the hippies.
Unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer real hardhats left, but those remaining who do an honest day’s work may still be inclined to vote for the next Ronald Reagan.
Obviously I’m not talking about the SEIU. NONE of those guys does an honest day’s work, as far as I know.
Where are the FLEA PARTY supporting politicians when it comes to the TAX PAYING LAW ABIDING businesses that are being disrupted and the losses they will have to bare in an economy like this thats already difficult. WHERE ARE THIER RIGHTS? At every step we are being treated like second class citizens while the politicains we elected are wiping these cretans a##es. THIS HAS TO STOP REMEMBER THEM ON ELECTION DAY
When I was a kid, MAD Magazine always ran cartoons of the hard hats versus the radicals. It was about then that my mother pulled my subscription (although it was - even with it’s leftist slant - a brilliant magazine for kids).
How sad that I’ve had to live long enough to see this.
These are the Bolshevik activist squads divesting the kulaks of their property because “at some point you’ve made enough money” as communist leader Barack Hussein O’Stalin has so helpfully pointed out.
Check out the front page poll on CNN.
Asking which do you support more, Occupy Movement or Tea Party.
We’re losing, get freeping.
Hard-HEADS and Dope-heads is more like it...
Of course the author fails to mention that today unions in PRIVATE SECTOR jobs are a miniscule (and shrinking) part of America - 7% of the work force.
As a matter of fact there are actually more union workers in the govt now than the private sector.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/business/23labor.html
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