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From: cl@lgc.com (Cameron Laird)
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Subject: Re: May Day
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Date: 2 May 91 18:03:48 GMT
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In article <1991May2.141435.4390@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> giacomet@haley.ecn.purdue.edu (  ) writes:
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> La chose bizare est que, si vous allez a` Chicago, toute trace, ou
>meme reference a` cet evenement a disparu. Meme le nom de la place
>et les rues ont change'; cela s'etait passe' vers le bas de Michigan.
>Meme pas une plaque, et la plupart des habitants de Chicago ne connaissent
>pas l'evenement non plus. Un bel exemple d'escamotage historique a` mon
>avis. C'est vrai que, au jour ou` les "heritage" and "rememberance" days
>sont a` la mode aux E.U., la celebration d'un tel evenement dans
>l'Illinois serait potentiellement dangereux.
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Je la doute.  At least one of us misjudges the character
of Chicago.  It's part of the assimilationist character
of the USA not to know how to hold grudges the way folks
do in Ireland, Turkey, South Africa, Peru, Vietnam, ...
The genetic descendants of the nineteenth-century marchers
are likely to be commodity exchange runners and hospital
administrators; those of the police perhaps airplane
pilots and electrical contractors.  If we held a May Day
demonstration today, who would fire on whom?  There's
certainly plenty of violence in Cook County, but not over
such archaic conflicts as (nineteenth-century style)
"class struggle".
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