May 1: Day of Mourning
Every May 1 we celebrate International Labor Day. But who knows that this celebration originated from a bloody event that occurred in Chicago in 1886, where a labor demonstration was violently suppressed? That to commemorate this massacre, labor party leaders from various countries, made it a day of struggle and solidarity for workers throughout the world, so that they would no longer be objects of exploitation, but would be respected as dignified human beings? And who knows that May 1st is also the commemoration of a bloody event that took place in West Papua in 1963? When the local indigenous people were stripped of their dignity, in the name of global capitalism and the imperialist ambition of another nation? May 1 is a sad day for West Papuans, as it coincides with the beginning of Indonesia's occupation of their country. Here is a brief historical explanation: Before 1963, West Papua, then called Dutch New Guinea, was a Dutch colony, and the Netherlands had prepared the regio...
