Japanese Empire whitewashing history?

Why Japanese couples become sexless roommates after marriage, Mama and Papa, 🇯🇵 #Japan

It's not just Americans and the U.S. Empire. Apparently, the post-imperial Japanese also do it -- whitewashing history, hiding war crimes, colonialism, occupation, and their atrocities. (Meeka le Fey) Why does Japan keep lying about its history?

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Michael Parenti: RIP to the GOAT (TJDS)

(The Jimmy Dore Show) Michael Parenti was a legend and here's why

R.I.P. to the GOAT: Michael Parenti (Wiki)

“Those who think they're free just haven't come to the end of their leash.” - Michael Parenti

American Marxist scholar, political analyst, historian, and author Michael Parenti has died at the age of 92. He was an outspoken critic of American capitalism, imperialism, and class inequities, whose intellectual works were celebrated around the world. He was the author of over 20 books, including Democracy for the Few and Superpatriotism.

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Against Empire: Exposé US Global Domination

“Well, I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists. It was Marx — dare we mention him? I hear he’s coming back in style. It was Marx who said one capitalist will kill many other capitalists, that the system begins to consume itself. We see that with Bernard Madoff [Bernie who made off with a lot of other people's money] and the like.…The free market does not work. It’s not free. It’s not really a market; it’s a plunder. And it has to be done away with.” - Michael Parenti

Michael John Parenti (Sept. 30, 1933–Jan. 24, 2026) was an American political scientist, academic historian, and cultural critic who wrote on scholarly and popular subjects. He taught at American universities and also ran for political office [1]. Parenti was well known for his Marxist writings and lectures [2, 3] and was a heroic intellectual of the American Left [4]. More

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LA County (SEIU Union) workers on strike

Meet the DOGE layoff victims that Elon Musk deemed wasteful | Desi Lydic | The Daily Show

(KTLA 5 News, Los Angeles, 4/29/25) Over 55,000 L.A. County workers go on strike

Over 55,000 L.A. County workers go on strike

(KTLA 5) April 29, 2025: It's not just federal workers being booted into unemployment. Los Angeles COUNTY employees aren't making enough to keep up with inflation (or Trumpflation as one might call it). So they are on strike, as LA pays $4 billion in child rape and sexual abuse settlement costs from abusing so many children in its care Tens of thousands of workers employed by Los Angeles County continued striking Tuesday, consequently disrupting some public services. The members of labor union SEIU 721 walked off their jobs after 7:00 pm Monday in an effort to negotiate for a new and fairer contract with the county. KTLA's Rachel Menitoff reports on April 29, 2025. Details: ktla.com/news/local-news/abou...

May Day: Orgies, sex, pole dancing (May 1)

What does this erect, burning, hard wood represent? Beltane is May Day, a time for Orgies

Modern Europeans drop down to their skivvies in the Tube to provoke sexual attention.

It's time for our annual Yoga in the Park Spring Fest (Dharma Buddhist Meditation)

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Let's dance around this "pole" and sing the
STD Song, "Ring Around the Rosies"!

May Day is a highly sexualized European festival of ancient origins marking the beginning of summer, usually celebrated on May 1, around halfway between the Northern Hemisphere's spring equinox and summer solstice [1, 2].

Festivities may also be held the night before (such as a Mischief Night), known as May Eve or Bringing in the May [3], like was done at UCLA overnight by Judeo-Christian traditionalists attacking student peace demonstrators.

Traditions often include gathering wildflowers and green branches, weaving floral garlands, crowning a May Queen (sometimes with a male companion), and setting up a May Pole or May Bush (or a May Tree of hardwood, *wink-wink*), around which people dance and sing [4] in spring revelry.

US college students now side with Palestinians.

Bonfires [or explosive fireworks such as those thrown at UCLA demonstrators] are also part of the festival in some regions.

Regional varieties and related traditions include Walpurgis Night in central and northern Europe [1], the Gaelic festival Beltane [5], the Welsh festival Calan Mai [5], and May devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary. [a stand-in for Buddhist Kwan Yin, various pagan goddesses, and Mother Nature, and possibly God's ex-wife A].

It has also been associated with the ancient Roman sex festival Floralia [6].

International Workers' Day is also called "May Day" but the two are thought to be unrelated, except that they both stir up the population to get out on the streets and revel.

Origins and celebrations

St. George's Kermis with the Dance around the Maypole (Pieter Brueghel the Younger/May Day)

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Women demand body rights, which means clitorises.

The earliest known May celebrations appeared with the Floralia, festival of Flora [flowers and plants as in "flora and fauna"], the Roman goddess of flowers.

It's held from April 27–May 3 during the Roman Republic era, and the Maiouma or Maiuma, a festival celebrating the god of excess Dionysus (aka Bacchus) and the goddess of sex Aphrodite (where we get the English word aphrodisiac) held every three years during the month of May [7].

Look at the size of that maypole!

The Floralia opened with theatrical performances. In the Floralia, Ovid says that hares and goats were released as part of the festivities.

Persius writes that crowds were pelted with vetches, beans, and lupins. A ritual called the Florifertum was performed on either April 27th or May 3rd [8, 9] during which a bundle of wheat ears was carried into a shrine, though it is not clear if this devotion was made to Flora or Ceres [10, 11].

Floralia concluded with competitive events and spectacles and a sacrifice to Flora [12].

Floralia, Flower Goddess worship in Rome (Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Floralia)

How do we indoctrinate our European children so that they don't even notice what it's about?

You're going too far! Stop it! - But it's May Day!

Maiouma was celebrated at least as early as the 2nd century AD, when records show expenses for the month-long festival were appropriated by Emperor Commodus [13], who is probably not the namesake of the commode or toilet but maybe.

According to the 6th-century chronicles of John Malalas, the Maiouma was a "nocturnal dramatic festival, held every three years and known as Orgies, that is, the Mysteries of Dionysus and Aphrodite" and that it was "known as the Maioumas because it is celebrated in the month of May-Artemisios."

Sex Fest is a distraction from Workers' Day

During this time, enough money was set aside by the government for torches, lights, and other expenses to cover a 30-day festival of "all-night revels" [14].

The Maiouma was celebrated with splendorous banquets and offerings.

It's time for sexy revelry and ye olde excesses.

Its reputation for licentiousness [sex, nudity, foreplay, intercourse, prostitution, sexual misconduct, sex, and lusty provocation] caused it to be suppressed during the reign of pagan pseudo-Christian Emperor Constantine, though a less debauched version of it was briefly restored during the reigns of Arcadius and Honorius, only to be suppressed again during the same period [13] because Christians have mixed feeling about their sexual urges and sinful immorality. More

• Ashley Wells, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit May Day, Beltane, Floralia, Maiouma

Was repressed sex always on the European brain?

Int'l Workers' Day rally, Hollywood (May 1)

White House at war all over the world, revolt in the streets and campuses, mass arrests: 2024

"Revolutionary spirit" is a goddess (devi), a warrior princess with breasts exposed (wiki).

Do women and girls have rights? Do they participate in the work force? Yes, two kinds of rights

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International Workers' Day

May Day 2024 (answercoalition.org)

This day is also called May Day (May 1), depending on the country, celebrated mostly with parades, marches, barbecues.

• Workers celebrate May Day with Hollywood march and rally | KTLA
• May Day honors the general strike that culminated in the Haymarket affair in 1886, which “signifies the labor movement’s struggle for better working conditions, fair wages, the rights of workers and efforts in driving social progress,” according to the WEF. In Hollywood, the rally and march begins at Sunset Blvd. and Gower St., then heads north to Hollywood Blvd. before ending at Hollywood and Highland. The rally starts at 2:00 pm, and the march begins at 3:00 pm. Hollywood streets will be closed from 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm.
• International Workers' Day: 3 ways trade unions drive social progress | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)

The first Monday in May sometimes substitutes. It is related to Labor Day in some countries [1] and often referred to as May Day [2, 3]. It is a celebration of laborers (the proles in 1984) and the working classes. It is promoted by the international labor movement and occurs every year on the first of May [4, 5] or the first Monday in May [6, 7].

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May Day is International Workers' Day

Traditionally, May 1 is the date of the European spring festival of "May Day." In 1889, the Marxist International Socialist Congress met in Paris and established the Second International as a successor to the earlier International Workingmen's Association. They adopted a resolution for a "great international demonstration" in support of working-class demands for the eight-hour day.

Are you worried, Bibi? - Nah, CIA protects me.

The date was chosen by the American Federation of Labor to commemorate a general strike in the United States, which had begun on May 1, 1886, and culminated in the Haymarket affair four days later.

The demonstration subsequently became an annual event [5]. The 1904 Sixth Conference of the Second International, called on "all Social Democratic Party organizations and trade unions of all countries to demonstrate energetically on the First of May for the legal establishment of the eight-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for universal peace." [8]. More

COMMENTARY

Does sex work count as labor? - Do you sweat?

Q: Should I celebrate? A: Look down at your collar. What color is it? Whatever color it is, yes, you should celebrate it. Our lives depend on the workers we exploit, underpay, and overwork. This movement merely tries to make things fairer for those who sweat and toil, while we sit at desks or behind registers collecting profits for the bosses, exploiters, and owners of the means of production (the capitalists). While we all imagine we will be rich, there is still reason to support labor, the foundation of any society. If we were to only consume, we would soon starve. A society must produce, and that production is brought about with labor (until the capitalists bring in the functional robots to replace the laborers). Is it any wonder Luddites in San Francisco are beating driverless cabs stealing food from their mouths?

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• Statement by ANSWER Nat'l Director Brian Becker on the self-immolation of U.S. Airman Aaron Bushnell at the Israeli Embassy in D.C.
• Palestinian Land Day: Shut it down protests demand an end to genocide and colonization (ANSWER Coalition)
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Radical History, Labor, Reproductive Rights

Guest Prof. Nancy Krieger, Hosts Nermina Sheikh and Amy Goodman (democracynow.org, March 8, 2023); Crystal Quintero, Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; FiveMinded

International Women's Day: Roots in Radical History, Labor, Reproductive Rights

Russian women demonstrate for peace and food, 1917, Petrograd, Russia (wiki)

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(Democracy Now!) Latest Shows. March 8th marks International Women's Day around the world, seeking to end gender discrimination, violence, and abuse. Democracy Now! starts today's show by looking at the day's roots in socialism and what it means for the movement for reproductive justice in the United States.

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  Against White Feminism

  [EDITORIAL NOTE: What is "reproductive justice"? It's the right to contraceptive access, the right not to be impregnated, the right not to have to have children against one's will, and should not be viewed, as many people seem to do, as a euphemistic synonym for abortion. There are options not just this polemical and divisive issue of either-or thinking. The whole point of being a liberal is to see the many options and opportunities available when we abandon binary thinking and the assumption that the world and our experience of it is black and white.]

Be free. Break the bias. Gender is constructed.

GUEST: Prof. Nancy Krieger is a renowned teacher of social epidemiology at Harvard University's School of Public Health and director of the Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women, Gender, and Health. She's also co-founder and chair of the Spirit of 1848 Caucus in the American Public Health Association, which links social justice and public health. International Women's Day has always been a struggle for "the conditions in which people can thrive," says Prof. Krieger.

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(FiveMinded) A brief history of International Women's Day

Senile Joe Biden; Pandemic Strike (video)

Mike MacRae, Joey Biden, Maxim Baru, Jimmy Dore, June 30, 2020; Editors, Wisdom Quarterly

Pizza Gate (Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Podesta the Molester Brothers' kiddie party) resurfaces.

Longtime politician, lawyer, and default presidential candidate Joe "Pizza Gate" Biden is demented and sounds more than a little senile. What this country needs is a general strike during the pandemic according to IWW Labor Organizer Maxim Baru in an interview on The Jimmy Dore Show, which has premium members, live shows, and a newsletter.

Demented Joe Biden (voiced by Mike MacRae) calls The Jimmy Dore Show

Cesar Chavez Day (video)

LA This Week, 3/26/019; PBS; Pfc. Sandoval, Crystal Quintero, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly

Cesar Chavez Day: The life of labor activist Cesar Chavez was honored with food, music, and dance on his day of remembrance, April 1, 2019.

What is Int'l Women's Day? (March 8)

THOIWD; Top Interesting Facts, March 4, 2017; Crystal Q., Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

History: about International Women's Day
International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.

International Women's Day (IWD) has been observed since in the early 1900's -- a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies.

International Women's Day is a collective day of global celebration. No one government, NGO (non-governmental organization), charity, corporation, academic institution, women's network, or media hub is solely responsible for International Women's Day. Many organizations declare an annual IWD theme that supports their specific agenda or cause, and some of these are adopted more widely with relevance than others.

"The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights," says world-renowned feminist, journalist, and social and political activist Gloria Steinem.

Thus International Women's Day is all about unity, celebration, reflection, advocacy, and action -- whatever that looks like globally at a local level. But one thing is for sure, International Women's Day has been occurring for well over a century -- and continues to grow from strength to strength.
 
1908

Great unrest and critical debate was occurring among women. Women's oppression and inequality was spurring women to become more vocal and active in campaigning for change. Then in 1908, 15,000 women marched through New York City demanding shorter hours, better pay, and voting rights.
 
1909

In accordance with a declaration by the Socialist Party of America, the first National Woman's Day (NWD) was observed across the United States on February 28th. Women continued to celebrate NWD on the last Sunday of February until 1913.
 
1910

In 1910 a second International Conference of Working Women was held in Copenhagen. A woman named Clara Zetkin (leader of the "Women's Office" for the Social Democratic Party in Germany) tabled the idea of an International Women's Day. She proposed that every year in every country there should be a celebration on the same day -- a Women's Day -- to press for their demands.

The conference of over 100 women from 17 countries, representing unions, socialist parties, working women's clubs -- and including the first three women elected to the Finnish parliament -- greeted Zetkin's suggestion with unanimous approval and thus International Women's Day was the result.

1911

Following the decision agreed at Copenhagen in 1911, International Women's Day was honored the first time in Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland on March 19th. More than one million women and men attended IWD rallies campaigning for women's rights to work, vote, be trained, to hold public office, and end discrimination.

However, less than a week later on March 25th, the tragic "Triangle Fire" in New York City took the lives of more than 140 working women, most of them Italian and Jewish immigrants. This disastrous event drew significant attention to working conditions and labor legislation in the United States that became a focus of subsequent International Women's Day events. The year 1911 also saw women's Bread and Roses' campaign.
 
1913-1914

On the eve of World War I campaigning for peace, Russian women observed their first International Women's Day on the last Sunday in February 1913. In 1913 following discussions, International Women's Day was transferred to March 8th, and this day has remained the global date for International Women's Day ever since.

In 1914 further women across Europe held rallies to campaign against the war and to express women's solidarity. For example, in London in the United Kingdom there was a march from Bow to Trafalgar Square in support of women's suffrage on March 8, 1914. Sylvia Pankhurst was arrested in front of Charing Cross station on her way to speak in Trafalgar Square.
 
1917

On the last Sunday of February, Russian women began a strike for "bread and peace" in response to the death of over 2 million Russian soldiers in World War I. Opposed by political leaders, the women continued to strike until four days later the Czar was forced to abdicate and the provisional government granted women the right to vote.

The date the women's strike commenced was Sunday, February 23 on the Julian Calendar then in use in Russia. This day on the Gregorian Calendar in use elsewhere was March 8th.

Happy International Whores' Day (June 2)

Benny Hill; Crystal Quintero, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, Bela (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

I work hard for the money, but I was just doing it for Hollywood suits, so it doesn't count.

International Whores' Day (WQ wiki edit) "International Sex Workers Day" on June 2 of each year honors sex workers (aka "whores").

It aims to recognize these entrepreneurs, independent contractors, and some drug-addled skanks and their often exploited working conditions.

The event commemorates the occupation of Église Saint-Nizier in Lyon, France, by more than 100 sex workers on June 2, 1975 to draw attention to their inhumane working conditions. It has been celebrated annually since 1976.

Help support sex worker rights (WQ).

In German, it is known as Hurentag ("Whore's Day").

In Spanish-speaking countries, it is the Día Internacional de la Trabajadora Sexual, the "International Day of the Sex Worker."

(The Spanish word trabajadora is feminine, recognizing that most sex workers are women though many transsexuals and homosexuals and trafficked children and modern-day slaves are also induced or forced to join the capitalist human flesh trade to survive). More

I dunno nuthin'. I'm a victim of circumstance.

Happy International Whores' Day! (reason.com) Celebrating the birth of sex worker rights, today is "International Whores' Day," a day commemorating a 1975 uprising. In a paper comparing French prostitute protest movements...

C'mon, Al Franken! I love me my b*tches!!

What is International Whore's Day? Sex Workers Are Marching... (bustle.com) The marches are in recognition of International Whore's Day (IWD), which was created in 1976 to commemorate the 1975 occupation of Église...

Mourning on International Whore's Day: In the Trump era few federal policy proposals are met with such seamless bipartisan cooperation as [whores] (feministing.com).

 

Jen Law went to school?

Jennifer Lawrence and Hollywood's Whore School An outraged JenLaw says, “You sent me to whore school!" Lawrence's Dominika is a Russian ballerina (nationalreview.com).

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Maya Angelou was a "whore" and pimp?

I love sex. I was giving it away (Getting Off)

Maya Angelou is the reason we need Int'l Whores' Day (vice.com) Int'l Whores' Day, the most necessary holiday you've never heard of, is on June 2. Maya Angelou was a prostitute and a pimp, and no one talks about it.

International Whores Day: Honored to be part of a "sisterhood of..." (nzherald.co.nz). These days the term "prostitute" is frowned upon by sex workers. Bates says it's a "bad, bad word with demeaning and ugly connotations for what is legitimate...

I'm human, not a sex animal!

Sex worker who's been in the industry for three DECADES says... (thesun.co.uk) Along with many others, Julie will using International Whores' Day to... She said: “I don't mind being called a whore by my sisters in whoredom...

June 2 is IWD! A Day of Direct Actions! – #SurvivorsAgainstSESTA (survivorsagainstsesta.org). *Intent: June 2nd, International Whores Day (also known as Día Internacional de las... The end of whorephobia and transphobia are our combined project.

FREE "Dolores" Oxy College screening (June 1)

ISLA (Institute for the Study of L.A.); Crystal Quintero, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Lummis Day, MAC, and ISLA present a free screening of the documentary Delores.

Dolores Huerta (doloreshuerta.org) is among the most important, though least known, activists in American history. An equal partner in co-founding one of the first farm workers' unions with Cesar Chavez, her enormous contributions have gone largely unrecognized.

Dolores is a movie about Huerta, who tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice alongside Chavez, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the 20th century. She continues the fight to this day, at age 87.

With intimate and unprecedented access to this intensely private mother of 11, the film reveals the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one’s life to social change. Directed by Peter Bratt.

(DN!) Great US civil rights leader, co-founder of Nat'l Farm Workers Assn.

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• Friday, June 1st, 7:00 pm
• Thorne Hall, Occidental College
• Followed by panel Q&A with union organizer and California Senate candidate Maria Elena Durazo and Chicana historian Ana Elizabeth Rosas led by Chicano/Latino arts advocate Tomas Benitez

Co-sponsored by: KPFK.org (90.7 FM Los Angeles, 98.7 FM Santa Barbara), Highland Park Independent Film Festival (HPIFF), Institute for the Study of Los Angeles, Occidental College, Occidental College Media Arts & Culture Department.

Lummis Day 2018

The final 2018 Viva Poetry Workshop with Lori Bedikian will take place on the last day of Lummis Day, June 3rd, at El Alisal (aka The Lummis Home).

The Lummis Day/ISLA Viva Poetry Series is made possible by Ahmanson Charitable Community Trust with additional support from the Arts and Urban Experience Initiative, which is generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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