Why Are Teachers Unions Celebrating a Communist Holiday?

 There is a huge battle raging for the hearts and minds of our children.  Sadly the far left has taken over the education system of America and are openly indoctrinating our children with socialist fantasy and LGBTQ ideology.  Today we read that the largest union will be giving a nod to the communist holiday on May 1.  We can pray that enough Bible believing parents are going to seek other educational opportunities for their children because the public schools seem to have turned into a platform to make Democrat voters out of the next generation of kids.

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The National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) are joining other leftist groups and encouraging members to celebrate May Day Strong National Day of Action with hundreds of rallies across the country. 

To be clear, the events taking place on May 1 aren’t a celebration of spring, with frolicking around maypoles, wearing flower wreaths and delivering baskets of spring blossoms to friends. 

May Day, also known as International Workers Day, started as a commemoration of a violent labor feud in Chicago in 1886, with workers protesting unsafe working conditions and striking to win an eight-hour workday. But anarchist, Marxist, socialist and labor groups quickly adopted the day in 1899. 

Communist countries used May Day to celebrate their military power and the government takeover of private property and the means of production. 

May Day Strong is an anti-capitalist political event, rooted in Marxist and socialist ideologies. 

But I’m sure the educators in these unions know their history. 

Many individual teachers love children, do good work and are subject matter experts, but it’s clear that the two largest teachers unions have been co-opted by radical activists. 

The NEA and AFT are part of a May Day Strong coalition, with hundreds of other leftist member groups promoting this year’s focus: “Workers Over Billionaires.” These extremist organizations are calling for a day of “No work. No school. No shopping.” 

The NEA explains what the Day of Action entails, saying: “This May Day will be a day of rallies, marches, teach-ins, labor actions, and a refusal of business as usual – because when those at the top rig the system, collective action is how we set it right.”

The NEA is the largest labor union in the U.S., claiming 2.8 million members. It has created a May Day 2026 Toolkit and a Walk-In Guide for educators to use as they “join workers, parents, students, and community members to rise up for dignity, justice, and public investment in our lives, not in billionaires’ profit margins.” 

Walk-Ins are 30-45 minute events before the school day where “parents, educators, and students, along with neighbors and community leaders” meet in front of their school for a rally. During school hours, teachers are encouraged to have students create artwork and write reports about the day. 

Again, this is a political event, with teachers unions encouraging the indoctrination of children into Marxist and socialist ideologies. 

The NEA lists its “demands to build the society we ALL deserve”: 

• “Stop the billionaire takeover and rampant corruption of the Trump administration.”
• “Protect and defend Medicaid, Social Security and other programs working people rely on.”
• “Fully fund public schools, healthcare and housing for all.”
• “Stop the attacks on our communities, including policies targeting immigrants, people of color, Native people, people with disabilities, and those who identify as LGBTQ+.”

The AFT and NEA join dozens of extremist anti-capitalist groups like the Communist Party USA, Labor Notes, Socialists Alternative and Democratic Socialists of America to celebrate and promote Marxist ideologies. 

In a post on X, Moms for Liberty questioned why teachers unions are pushing children toward leftist political dogma – instead of teaching the basics:  “Teachers unions are supposed to teach kids, not mobilize political agitation. Now NEA, WEA [Washington Education Association], AFT, and Seattle Ed are backing May Day Strong, pushing ‘educate, agitate, organize,’ walk-ins, and power-building. Parents should be asking: what exactly are our schools being used for?”

Meanwhile, the Chicago Teachers Union, one of the largest AFT local groups, is calling for total school closures and promoting participation in the event as a “civic duty.” 

Parents of children in public schools generally think their local schools are doing a good job. And, again, many schools and teachers do terrific work. 

But national surveys demonstrate low academic achievement among most students. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card, fewer than two thirds of American eighth graders can do math (26%), read (30%), or do science (31%) at grade level.

Despite their rhetoric, teachers unions don’t advocate for students – they advocate for teachers. Perhaps if educators spent less time agitating, organizing and power-building, we would see students performing better. 

https://harbingersdaily.com/why-are-teachers-unions-celebrating-may-day-a-communist-workers-holiday/

Israel Promotes Huge LGBTQ+ Festival

 You don’t have to read the Bible very long to see that ancient Israel had a pattern;  cry out to God for deliverance when things were bad.  But as soon as He delivered them and things were good, they would return to their perversion and sin only to be destroyed again.

This article below explains the massive Pride festival to be held in Israel held at the very locations of Sodom and Gomorrah which were destroyed in part for their gay perversion.

Remember, the Jews are God’s chosen people.  Chose for what?  Chosen to deliver the Word of God, the Messiah Jesus and to show the world blessings and curses which come from obedience and disobedience to our Creator.

Pride comes before the fall.  Reading articles like this shows us just how near we are to The Time of Jacob’s Trouble.  And of course the rapture precedes this Time.

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The official X account of Israel, which is run by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, promoted an upcoming four-day LGBTQ+ pride festival in June at the Dead Sea, which some detractors on social media noted is the traditional location of Sodom and Gomorrah.

"Pride rises at the lowest place on earth," the Monday post read. "This June the Dead Sea becomes Pride Land, the biggest LGBTQ+ festival ever in the Middle East. Four days of nonstop celebration community and connection. Israel celebrates its LGBTQ+ community bigger than ever."

"Pride Land," which is slated to celebrate LGBT behavior from June 1-4, will transform a part of the Judaean Desert near the Dead Sea into a 24-hour city with 15 hotels, beach facilities and a central performance arena that will host continuous entertainment from prominent Israeli performers, according to The Jerusalem Post.

The event will also purportedly provide family-friendly areas with activities for children, as well as workshops for families.

Aaron Cohen, who is the main producer and initiator of the event, told the outlet that the scale of the festival is unprecedented.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/israel-promotes-biggest-lgbtq-festival-ever-near-site-of-sodom.html

Democrats Pretend to be on Team Pope

Democrats love abortion.  The Pope doesn’t.  Democrats love LGBTQIA+.  The Pope doesn’t.

So why are Democrats all of a sudden all about the Pope?   Because they will insert themselves on any side of a disagreement that doesn’t have Trump on it.  They hope to sew seeds of discord within the Catholic community as the mid-terms approach because Catholics were a huge voting block for Trump.

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 Just as liberal elites are currently attempting to drive a wedge between Catholics and Evangelicals, they are also attempting to open up a rift between Catholics and the Republican Party – specifically President Donald Trump.

The ongoing public spat between Trump and Pope Leo XIV over U.S. immigration policy and the war in Iran has provided the perfect opportunity for the Left to sow anti-GOP sentiment among the all-important Catholic voting bloc ahead of the midterm elections. But what conservatives – and Catholic conservatives especially – must realize is that the Left does not suddenly care about defending the Pope or Catholic teaching. Rather, they hope that by pretending to be on “Team Pope” they can manipulate Catholics into voting against their own interests – and undermine President Trump in the process.

This hypocritical attempt to get Catholics to move left, however, presents both hilarious dark humor and a dangerous situation.

That there is – or can be – a real tension between religion and politics is not unusual. No Catholic (or any other Christian) thinks that earthly politicians do all things well or even correctly. Thus the disagreement over the Iran War, with Vice President Vance and Secretary of State Rubio (both Catholic) supporting American military strikes and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and various individual bishops supporting Pope Leo’s comments that are critical of the conflict.

The debate over the wisdom and justice of American military action in Iran is natural and indeed a good thing. The canons of just war theory, which have long been accepted in Catholic, Protestant, and even some secular circles, are not simple, connect-the-dots rules. They require interpretation.

The USCCB posted a summarized version of those canons taken from The Catechism of the Catholic Church. While many simply take the papal opposition to the Iran strikes as dispositive, that is not the end of the question. Catholics believe (a hard claim, to be sure, for other Christians) that popes can speak infallibly, meaning without error, on certain occasions. But those occasions are rare and carefully defined. They rarely include prudential decisions about complicated applications of moral reasoning that might be decided in different ways.

In fact, even among Catholics, there are different applications of just war theory. The eminent Catholic philosopher Edward Feser has argued, for reasons he spells out, that the Iran War is unjust. The eminent Catholic philosopher J. Budziszewski’s argument, on the other hand, concludes that “it seems to me that this war is just.”

It is worth noting here that the Catechism states: “The evaluation of these conditions for moral legitimacy [of war] belongs to the prudential judgment of those who have responsibility for the common good.”

Of course, even that is part of the debate. Professor Feser thinks the Iran War requires a Congressional declaration to be just, while Professor Budziszewski argues that, “Despite claims to the contrary, the administration has followed the provisions of America’s War Powers Act.”

Some believe (and this writer is among them) that the Iran debate among Catholics is not the real issue. For Pope Leo and the American anti-Trump bishops, the real dispute is over questions of immigration, welfare, and globalization more generally.

These, too, however, are issues of prudential judgment about policy that are still delegated to the public authorities and not churchmen, even if it is perfectly reasonable that churchmen be able to offer their own opinions on matters of public record.

Catholics know that the Catechism doesn’t merely encourage wealthy nations to be generous to those seeking security or prosperity in a different country. It also outlines what countries may do legally and what immigrants must do in the countries to which they wish to immigrate. “Political authorities,” it teaches, “for the sake of the common good for which they are responsible, may make the exercise of the right to immigrate subject to various juridical conditions, especially with regard to the immigrants’ duties toward their country of adoption.”

In other words, we are not obligated to make immigration easy, especially for those who disregard American law. The Catechism adds, “Immigrants are obliged to respect with gratitude the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, to obey its laws and to assist in carrying civic burdens.”

There is, then, a very solid case for our restrictive immigration policy even from a Catholic standpoint—whether or not Catholics agree with every single aspect of the policy. Of course, there are many other issues on which Catholics will take issue with the Trump administration and Republicans more generally. That is not surprising. As G.K. Chesterton observed, Catholics are bound to agree on a few things and bound to disagree on the rest. And that goes especially for issues so complicated as national policies about a country with the size and complexity of ours.

Also unsurprising is the attempt to exploit these internal Catholic disagreements for the benefit of Democrats. As demographer Ryan Burge has noted, Catholics have turned red since 2008, when they voted 50/50 in the presidential election. In 2024, they voted 56-42 for Trump over Harris. Republicans have a 2-1 advantage over Democrats in the white Catholic vote. Among non-white Catholics, while only 24 percent voted for Trump in 2016, 40 percent did so in 2024.

One may not be able to speak of a unitary “Catholic vote” anymore, but one can say that Catholics have leaned increasingly right in recent years.

The reasons for that leaning are pretty obvious. Democrats have become the party of abortion absolutism, LGBTQ+ ideology (including gender-mutilation for kids!), and even euthanasia. All of these go directly against Catholic teaching. While Republicans have not always done the best job of opposing Democrats on these issues, it’s still a no-brainer which party more closely aligns with biblical values.

The absurdity of Democrats claiming that they are “on Team Pope,” as did Senator Ed Markey, famous for wearing a pin that reads “ABORTION” on his jacket, would probably be considered too implausible for fiction.

Equally absurd is Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker posting a picture of himself shaking hands with Pope Leo, who vainly begged the politician to veto a physician-assisted suicide bill. Even more outrageous, the caption to that photo read, “The Pope lifts his voice as part of a higher calling – one centered on peace and the preservation of human life.” One wonders how Pritzker squares that praise with his own personal support for radical abortion policies and the state-sanctioned murder of the sick and elderly.

Catholics are famous for taking a realistic approach to politics. While nobody thinks Donald Trump or Republicans are perfect on every prudential issue, they know that the Democrats are “not on Team Pope” – except perhaps when they can cynically exploit the papacy to hurt President Trump.

With regard to the black-and-white issues on which no Catholic (or indeed any sane person of any faith) can disagree, the Democrats have no intention of even considering listening to the Pope – or any other biblical authority, for that matter.

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