Green Party’s James Lane Pushes Platform on May 1, Law Day

From Rachel Shapiro at Staten Island Live:

Standing on the steps of Borough Hall on Friday, James Lane, the Green Party candidate for Congress, held a sign that read: “May 1 is Law Day. Where is the justice? From Hurricane Sandy, to the Moreland Commission, to the Eric Garner case. Law Day belongs to the lawyers. Law Day is not our day.”

With him was activist Bill Johnson of New Brighton, who made the sign, and as people passed by on the sidewalk, Johnson read loudly the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoken at the Selma to Montgomery marches.

They and a few other supports held other signs, including one that took a line from District Attorney Daniel Donovan’s congressional campaign slogan: “It’s time. For democracy, justice and accountability, not for another ambitious, self-serving lawyer/politician.”

Law Day is celebrated on May 1 as a day to honor the rule of law and the legal process and was first established by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958.

It was created as an alternative to May Day, International Workers’ Day, with communist overtones related to working class people in the Soviet Union.

Law Day is championed by the American Bar Association, but Lane and Johnson argued that elected officials and a privileged few have hijacked the law to further their own goals, as ruling elites and big business control the government and set policy.

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