Good Morning!
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Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a comment.
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“A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over.”
– Joe Hill
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn – ‘The Rebel Girl’ song sheet cover – Joe Hill
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America doesn’t have enough national holidays, so I have no quarrel with people who work for a living taking advantage of the three-day weekend for R&R.
Here are some tunes by and for all the working men, women and children in the Labor Movement whose sacrifices brought us the 8-hour day (which a lot of people have lost in recent years), the weekend (which many of us still have), and of course, Labor Day itself.
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Everybody have a fun and safe Labor Day — you’ve earned it!
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Nicole Plyler Fisk
Gene Howington
FFS Guest Blogger
Joy of Fishes
Chuck Stanley
shortfinals
Terry Welshans
ann li-summers
wordcloud9
Flowers For Socrates 
When people who don’t know me ask me what party I am, I say, “Labor.” That throws them for a loop. Many say, “We don’t have a labor party.” Boy is THAT true. (Yes, I know we do, but;;;)
It should be a much bigger party – workers of all kinds are treated so badly, and need much better representation in government at the state and national levels
Yes we should, we definitely have Tories.
One of my favorite labor songs is from Scotland. The Corries version of “The Bricklayer’s Song”:
A bit of dark humor – beautifully performed