Submitted by Dan Shea, former VFP Board member and Member of VFP Chapter 72 in Portland OR
International Workers’ Day
Is more than the celebration of
the Eight Hour Day and the remembrance
of the Haymarket Massacre
it is recognizing the Captains of Industry
declared War against the Working Class
Veterans For Peace
demands Peace and Justice for all
for it is the working class who are sent
to fight rich men's wars
The warriors sent into battle are
grunts coming from the underpaid,
the unemployed, the immigrant, the poor
ponds for slaughter and killing
profits for industries of Death
Come Veterans For Peace
fly your flags
support your brothers and sisters
economic justice is the cause workers
the cost war is the ruin of workers’ pay
the price their blood, sweat & tears
their children lame and dead
War is the enemy of Workers everywhere
Demand Your Rights to Organize
Demand Life over Death, End All Wars
Defend Human and Civil Rights
Defend Our Planet against an Environmental Apocalypse
Defend Immigrant Workers & their Families
Not 1 More Deportation, Not 1 More War
Not 1 More Foreclosure, Not 1 More Job Lost
Not 1 More Step Backward