workers' rights and the power of pizza

[protester in Tahrir Square, Cairo]

If you remember, I mentioned a while before Mubarak fell,

the historically-important power of pizza

from ancient Egypt onward.

You ignore pizza at your peril.

Mubarak did, and look at him now.

Anyway, the next revolt is happening in another

place, half a world away, but pizza is again the currency

of the downtrodden worker.

It is the fuel of the proletarian revolution.
Folks from Cairo have been sending pies to
their "brothers" protesting in Wisconsin.

-Cos67 ¬(%^D>

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/26/us/26madison.html

Voices of the Protest
Delivering Moral Support in a Steady Stream of Pizzas
STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Published: February 25, 2011
MADISON, Wis. — Someday the ruckus here might be remembered as the Pizza-Powered People’s Uprising.
very day for the past week, the two Ian’s Pizza shops in town have fed the hungry masses, delivering hundreds of free pies to the Capitol. The owners of Ian’s boasted that supporters from all 50 states — as well as Bosnia, China, Egypt, France and 20 other countries — had donated thousands of dollars each day so they could give protesters the calories they needed to keep going.

On Wednesday alone, nearly 800 Ian’s pizzas were delivered to the Capitol, often 30 at a time, with police officers and legislative aides, Republican and Democrat alike, also partaking.

Underneath the Capitol’s majestic dome, as drummers drummed, demonstrators drew posters and some protesters did yoga, dozens of people swarmed toward Paul Sarnwick, an Ian’s deliveryman, as he opened a stack of boxes containing pizzas like spicy chicken taco, lasagna and buffalo chicken with blue cheese. ...