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May 1: Make Mine A Holy Day

The US Department of Labor says May 1 was declared a holiday as 'a yearly national tribute to contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.' Good idea! Now, therefore, since the Philippines' Labor Day celebration is a carbon copy of the US model, if you celebrate it any other way, you are desecrating the ideal of the worker. If you celebrate May 1 by demonstrating against the government, you are dishonoring the day. If you celebrate it by demonstrating for the government, you are honoring the source of policy for declaring the day as with honor.

30 April 2006