Jessamyn

"On May 1, 1886, Albert and Lucy Parsons led 80,000 people down Michigan Avenue, in what is regarded as the first-ever May Day Parade, in support of the eight-hour work day."

Lucy Parsons was a Black anarchist and she continued her May Day activism into her 90s. Her legacy is complex but that doesn't make it any less powerful. Know her name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Parsons

#MayDay

Lucy Parsons - Wikipedia

May 1, 2025 at 4:21pmWeb
Show threadbiff52May 1, 2025
@jessamyn
A friend posted this story today:
https://scattershooting.substack.com/p/the-spirit-of-may-day-the-fight-that
The Spirit of May Day: The Fight That Still Defines Us

Originally published on the Jon S Randal Peace Page, on Facebook

Scatter Shooting
Show threadJessamynMay 1, 2025
@biff52 Thanks for sending that. I am always surprised to see lefties and radicals on Substack.
Show threadLevkaMay 1, 2025

@jessamyn @biff52

There's a reason for that.

Show threadJessamynMay 1, 2025
@LevZadov @biff52 I'm sorry I can't quite parse that. There is a reason for my surprise, or there is a reason for lefties/radicals to be on Substack?
Show threadLevkaMay 1, 2025

@jessamyn @biff52

There is no reason for lefties/radicals to be on Substack, or for that matter, on Bluesky. That's what the Fediverse is for.

Show threadbiff52May 1, 2025
@LevZadov @jessamyn
I think we belong everywhere.
Show threadLevkaMay 1, 2025

@biff52 @jessamyn

We don't belong on yet another broligarch's social media or on any site that doesn't ban fascists.

Show threadAmoshiasMay 1, 2025
@biff52 @jessamyn https://youtu.be/e6QtFbvVQ8o?feature=shared
Shoot or Stab Them

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Show threadJessamynMay 1, 2025
@Amoshias @biff52 Will not surprise you that I had that on cassette.
Show threadAmoshiasMay 1, 2025
@jessamyn @biff52 :-) I learned more about American history from that single album than from a dozen years in American schools.
Show threadJessamynMay 1, 2025

@Amoshias @biff52 This one also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7fDasrWtV0&list=OLAK5uy_kaTvFpgXtHqF3CsYyaSPJMTUblbYhB6Ro

Korea

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Show threadJake in the desertMay 1, 2025
@jessamyn 🔥🔥🔥✊
Show threadRobin BartonMay 1, 2025
@jessamyn All people are complex and imperfect but we can still achieve great things
Show threadjmcnaughtonMay 1, 2025

@jessamyn "more dangerous than a thousand rioters!"

🍞 🌹 🌹

She was prolific: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/lucy-e-parsons

She spoke at the founding meeting of the IWW in 1905:

"My conception of the strike of the future is not to strike and go out an starve, but to strike and remain in and take possession of the necessary property of production..."

#LucyParsons #AlbertParsons #MayDay #IWW #anarchism #anarchist #socialism #InternationalWorkersDay

Lucy E. Parsons

Lucy E. Parsons

The Anarchist Library
Show threadPeachMcDMay 1, 2025
@jessamyn
For you, @Jaden3