Dimensionally Barrett

I do like these signs! Photo: John Barrett   I’ve mentioned before that rallies, gatherings, marches, and protests are always more than they appear to be at first sight. While they very often are focused on a theme or cause, it is counterintuitive, perhaps, to say that is all they are about. Yesterday’s Labor Day March, put together by 50501 Houston and Houston Coalition , was comprised of several hundred people who marched two and a half miles through one of the chi-chi retail districts in the country, Houston’s famed Galleria, through Highland Village to conclude at Lamar High School, located in River Oaks, where most of the one-percent reside in the metro area. The group met at the Hines Waterwall as the result of a last-minute change, but somehow, this route made a world of sense. We marched for workers’ rights and this includes fair wages, paid time off, insurance, better work/life balance and in general, just better working conditions for all. It wasn’t lost on anyone that ...

The further we go down the path of authoritarianism, the more people are voicing their dissent. Labor Day 2025 is going to be pretty busy with rallies, marches, and other gatherings. I’ve got a couple of events I’m attending but before I go off, here is a healthy helping of the aforementioned dissent with soupçons of satire and perhaps ribaldry. Here you go! A buffet of bludgeoning, boisterous, bullhorn worthy wit and ire! To the barricades, kiddies!