Change to Win has come up with a pretty clever way to emphasize the labor in Labor Day this year. They're asking progressive bloggers from across the country to pledge to write about workers' rights on September 1:
Take Back Labor Day has a simple objective. The corporate media has turned Labor Day — a holiday that is supposed to commemorate the struggles and sacrifices of the workers who fought and bled to get us the 8-hour work day, the weekend, and many, many other things we take for granted today — into a day to drink beer and eat hot dogs. They’ve taken the labor out of Labor Day.
So some folks here at Netroots Nation started asking what if bloggers across America all blogged on Labor Day about work and workers’ rights? What if we used our own media to tell our own stories — the stories that you don’t hear on the nightly news?
So that’s what we’re going to do. On Labor Day (September 1), we’re going to be telling those stories here at CtW Connect. And I want to encourage you to join this effort and tell your own stories too.
To join, just go to TakeBackLaborDay.org and pledge to blog about what Labor Day means to you.
Count us in.
Anonymous on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 16:30
Better yet, go out and march!
Josh Kalven on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 17:46
Who says we can't do both ...
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