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<\/p>\nWisconsin’s “labor movement” protesters have adopted a couple of new symbols.<\/p>\n
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The first, of course, is the very word “Solidarity”, although to be fair its use by radical left-wing labor activists long-predates the Polish “Solidarity” movement.\u00a0 Since nobody retired the number, I suppose they can put it on their jersey.<\/p>\n
But the “raised fist” is a pretty loaded symbol.\u00a0 It’s been used by (according to this Wikipedia bit, with me adding a few bits of emphasis):<\/p>\n
* Albanian National Liberation Front<\/p>\n
* American Indian Movement<\/p>\n
* Anarchist Black Cross<\/p>\n
* Black Panther Party<\/strong><\/p>\n
* Democratic Labour Party of Brazil<\/p>\n
* Earth First!<\/strong><\/p>\n
* Women’s Liberation<\/p>\n
* Food Not Bombs<\/p>\n
* International Brigades<\/strong><\/p>\n
* International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers<\/p>\n
* Italian Radical Party<\/strong><\/p>\n
* Jewish Defense League<\/p>\n
* Kach<\/p>\n
* National Equality March<\/p>\n
* Otpor<\/p>\n
* Parti Sosialis Malaysia (Socialist Party of Malaysia)<\/p>\n
* Revolutionary Socialist Workers’ Party (Turkey)<\/p>\n
* Red Front Fighters’ League<\/p>\n
* Saor \u00c9ire (1967-1975)<\/p>\n
* Socialist International<\/strong><\/p>\n
* Socialist Party of England and Wales<\/p>\n
* Socialist Workers Party (Britain)<\/p>\n
* Socialist Youth Front<\/p>\n
* United Farm Workers<\/p>\n
* Zimbabwe African National Union \u2013 Patriotic Front<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Not to mention, if I recall correctly, Mussolini’s Camicia Neri<\/em>, the “Black Shirts”.<\/p>\n
Now, they can pick any symbol they want.\u00a0 It’s a free country.<\/p>\n
It’s just that with all the nation’s media and self-appointed social consciences having the victorian vapours over the most tangential symbolism among the Tea Party, it’s kinda odd that there’s no comment about a symbol that is linked on the one hand with a lot of violence, even terrorism (not that the unions seem averse to that<\/a>, if only rhetorically)…<\/p>\n
…and on the other with various Civil Rights movements – as if the “Right” to demand others pay for a standard of living they themselves cannot afford is on par with the right to vote and be considered equal before the law.<\/p>\n
Just saying.<\/p>\n
(Via Torin K at the TPL)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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