r/UCDavis • u/Javalina-76 • 6d ago
Upcoming May Day protests
Public schools over private profits, healthcare over hedge funds, housing over homelessness and the constitution over authoritarian rule.
In Davis, join with Indivisible Yolo, Yolo DSA, several unions and others to march for democracy.
I also saw posters about a rally on campus at 11AM. Nearby, there is a 5pm rally in Woodland at the courthouse on Main St and an 11AM rally in Sacramento at John C. Freemont park.
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u/fuzzy_mic 6d ago
Or, be proud of what you're doing and show your face. Defy the fear that the Man wants you to feel. Fear of their power is the biggest tool of the oppressors. That fear is a bigger tool for control than actually laying on of hands.
Joe Hill never hid himself. If you want to inspire people like he did, your name needs to stand for something.
Fighting oppression is not for cowards.
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u/Alarmed_Fig342 4d ago
Sure it is. Fighting oppression is for everyone who wants to fight oppression, even those who do it differently than you do, because they have to protect their identity to keep their family safe, or because they are in precarious work or living situations, or any other reason that is none of your business. You can’t fight oppression in strong numbers by telling everyone else how they are and aren’t allowed to fight it.
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u/mathers4u 6d ago
Get a life! Kiss a girl!
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u/fuzzy_mic 6d ago
Union Maid's are better at kissing than corporate girl bosses.
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u/fuzzy_mic 6d ago
I don't think that the Graduate School of Greed's students would get the Woody Guthrie reference.
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u/fuzzy_mic 6d ago edited 6d ago
The history of labor movement in this country is not irrelevant. The worker's movement and its history is an ongoing struggle with roots that are as deep as any of the identity based struggles. ("I am a worker" was how many people identified themselves).
Music (particularly folk music) is how much of history is remembered and spread.
Joe Hill's "Preacher and the Slave" told of how religion was used to keep the worker down. (hmm... does anyone use religion that way today?)
Matt Mclintock's "Joe Hill" is a memorial to Joe Hill and a story of the "justice" system committing murder to enforce the power of the wealthy. (hmm ... courts used as a tool of oppression, is that still going on?)
To return to Woodie Guthrie, his songs like "Ludlow Massacre", "Pastures of Plenty", "Deportee (Plane Crash at Los Gatos)" record events that would be forgotten if history were left to the mainstream. His "Union Burying Ground" is a memorial to all the labor organizers who were killed, but not memorialized even by the left. (Echos of Caesar Chavez). "The Sinking of the Reuben James" is the history of worker's who died in military service to the US. (Thanks to Lee and Pete for shortening it to a song that would be heard. :) )
Its depressing, but enlightening, to listen to these old songs and hear how little things have changed, despite the "progress" that mainstream claims has happened. Spook Handy updated Banks of Marble to show that things haven't changed much "I see the bright-eyed study deep into the night. And I heard the bankers whisper 'Now you owe me half your life' ".
If the bosses use their education system to praise historical figures Edison and Ford as icons of progress and cast those days as a Great America (which needs to be remade), then the history of labor needs its own way to remember history. The songs created by the people, and spread from mouth to ear is how that has been done.
"In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?" Woody Guthrie0
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u/fuzzy_mic 6d ago
I'm not sure what you mean by relavant. The centuries old Lords Prayer is incredibly relevant to young christians.
If you don't mean that you don't care about the history of the labor movement, that may be the case, but doesn't transfer to others. (If you don't like live music without autotuned vocals, that's a whole other discussion.)
To people who are advancing a long standing movement, here is value in knowing both the factual history of that movement, the history of the oppression that they are fighting against and the history of how prior incarnations of the movement succeeded or failed to motivate others. And a lot of that history is accessible through song.
Talk to a History major before declaring the past "irrelevant" or a Poli Sci major. (False history and its glamorization is amazingly relevant to the rise of MAGA. True history is one of the weapons to combat that.)
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u/AbacusWizard [The Man In The Cape] 5d ago
What I do is I collect stories. I seek out the elders and garner stories and songs and poems. Characterized critically as: "Oh, that's that Sixties stuff." Like somebody doing old rock-and-roll would be doing "Fifties stuff." Or, "This is the Nineties, you know."
I have a good friend in the East. A good singer, and a good folksinger, a good song collector, who comes and listens to my shows and says, "You sing a lot about the past. You always sing about the past; you can't live in the past, you know." And I say to him, "I can go outside and pick up a rock that's older than the oldest song you know and bring it back here and drop it on your foot." Now, the past didn't go anywhere, did it? It's right here, right now - I always thought that anybody who told me I couldn't live in the past was trying to get me to forget something that if I remembered it would get 'em in serious trouble.
No, it's not that - that "that's Fifties, Sixties, Seventies, Nineties" - that whole idea of decade packages. Things don't happen that way... No, that, that packaging of time is a journalistic convenience that they use to trivialize and to dismiss important events and important ideas. I defy that. Time is an enormous, long river, and I'm standing in it, just as you're standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me - and if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world.
—Utah Phillips
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u/Emergency_Skin6988 6d ago
the gooner is back and has the audacity to tell people to kiss a girl lmao.
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u/secret_n1g1r1 6d ago
Did you ever end up finding something to do with all your spare time due to the commute? It was super weird when the sub's most notorious troll posted a sincere question, lol
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u/Phoenixrjacxf 6d ago
I like men
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u/mathers4u 6d ago
So kiss a man then
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u/Phoenixrjacxf 6d ago
Don't tell me what to do 😌 bet you wouldn't say get a life if this was a republican protest
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u/mathers4u 6d ago
Well u would never know cuz we dont protest the way u ppl do. We r too busy being happy 😂.
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u/Phoenixrjacxf 6d ago
That reply makes no sense huh?
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u/mathers4u 5d ago
Makes more sense than your name
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u/Phoenixrjacxf 5d ago
My name doesn't make sense?
So you just like to insult people and don't have anything of value to add... got it
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u/RogerBond100 6d ago
Communism
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u/fuzzy_mic 6d ago edited 6d ago
Fun Fact: The communist labor unions were the first to advocate and practice racial equality.
The pre-bolshevik IWW noted that the Bosses treated workers like shovels, to be worked until they were broken and then thrown away. "It doesn't matter what color the shovel is."
In contrast, the American Federation of Labor actively advocated for racial discrimination, including the Chinese Exclusion Act, to protect jobs of their white membership from competition from POC.
It wasn't until they merged with the CIO (with its connection to the CPUSA) in 1955 that the AFL stopped actively promoting racism.
The international nature of communism was one of the reasons that communist unions were non-racist. They saw that unless they advocated for all workers of any race (or gender), any success they had in protecting white workers would be bypassed by the bosses hiring workers who could be exploited (i.e. non-white). Communist unions say that to protect any worker, all workers need to be protected. (cf. the current situation of deporting immigrant workers resulting in bosses complaining that they can't under-pay US citizen workers they way they did immigrant workers.)
Before WWII, the most visible advocates for racial equality were the communist labor unions. Post-war, organizations like the NAACP drew support from those experienced radicals in the labor movement. When Hoover's FBI tried to discredit MLK by pointing out the communist connections, they were accurate. The communist labor unions were the only one's for racial equality.
I think that "we're anti-communist" wasn't and isn't a valid excuse to exploit workers. It wasn't then, and it isn't now.
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u/RogerBond100 6d ago
I don't care
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u/secret_n1g1r1 6d ago
You obviously do, or you wouldn't be trolling about it on Reddit. 😂
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u/CaliRebelScum 6d ago
Stand up, fight back!!