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64 lines
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On Labor Day, the following flyer was placed on approximately 500 front doors,
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car windshields, and telephone poles in well-to-do residential sections of
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Morgantown, WV.
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It's Time To Reflect
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It's Labor Day once again. Today you are permitted to
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do anything you want. This token day is given to you by your
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employers "to honor your hard work and dedication." They're
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making this investment of one day's lost labor, confident
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that you'll return to work tomorrow feeling refreshed,
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grateful, and submissive. You probably will.
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Today, you will wallow in the by-products of your
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captivity. Like a rabbit eating its own droppings, you will
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spend the day buying back the very same commodities that you
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and your labor-force partners have created. How many times
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are you going to eat your own shit before you start to
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question the people that are serving it up?
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Can you remember the day that you decided you wanted to
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spend your life as a laborer? Of course you can't. Society
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doesn't present work to you as an option. It presents work
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as your destiny. It's no wonder that you bought into it.
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But you do have options. Your body, your mind, your
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time, and your life are all rightfully yours. You are free
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to reclaim any or all of them whenever you want them. There
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can be so much more to life than producing products and
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buying them back. But unless you are brave enough to step
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out of the line, you will die as a slave to this self-
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perpetuating cycle.
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Your employers have given you today off to pacify you.
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They are hoping that giving you one day back will blind you.
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They don't want you to realize that they stole the other 364
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from you. Are you going to fall for it again this year?
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We don't want you to buy our newspaper, or come to some
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discussion, or join our organization. We don't even have an
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organization. We are just a group of individuals who
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are outraged that our lives have been hijacked by this futile
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and endless cycle that society has adopted. We are hoping
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that Morgantown will wake up and refuse to take part in this
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pathetic Spectacle.
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So here you are, branded by society as "labor." Yet,
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despite the subjugation that the word implies, you wear no
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manacles. You are always free to do anything you choose.
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Tomorrow, the fate of your body, your mind, your time,
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and your life will be in your hands. Are you going to excuse
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yourself from the table, or order yourself up another plate
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of shit?
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We implore you to reclaim your life. When your alarm
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goes off tomorrow, pick up the phone and call your boss. Let
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him know that you won't be coming into work. If he wants to
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know why, just tell him that it's Labor Day.
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If you have any questions, call 296-0041 any morning 9-
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10am or 291-9433 during regular business hours.
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We Invite You Back To Life
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The phone numbers at the bottom of the page reach the Editorial Opinions desk
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at The Dominion Post (a local newspaper), and the "Morgantown A.M." radio talk
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show at a local radio station. The next day, the paper printed a front page
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story on the flyer, insisting that they had nothing to do with it, and the
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radio program issued a similar disclaimer.
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