SAN FRANCISCO
Liz and Lee Heidhues – May 1st, 2025.
Despite what lies and racist attacks the felon Trump spews out American workers, many from other countries, do the heavy lifting to keep the country moving.
This truth is evident in San Francisco’s outer Richmond District where the City is in the midst of a two year project to repair the Geary Boulevard infrastructure. Many of these workers have family origins from countries outside the United States.
The construction crews are not the only workers in the Richmond District. There are neighborhood merchants. The barber shop; the grocery store proprietor; restaurant worker; the maintenance worker; the school crossing guard; and the ubiquitous food delivery man.
The Richmond District has its share of alternative modes of transportation on May Day. Three wheeled bicycles and e-bikes.
May Day also has special resonance for bloggers Liz and Lee. It is our 54th anniversary together. A memorable day. We became acquainted at San Francisco State University. We had separately left San Francisco after living together. Lee left America in late 1969. Liz left in mid 1970. Circumstances, perhaps fate, brought us together, again. We connected in Germany.
To celebrate 54 years we spent the May Day lunch hour at a neighborhood restaurant with a group of Liz’s fellow Tat Wong martial arts school comrades. All of whom are community elders keeping themselves in good physical and mental condition.
While we were enjoying our neighborhood on a foggy May Day several miles away there was a stark reminder of what havoc the felon Trump is bringing to America. At the Federal courthouse a 1000 lawyers and their supporters rallied on behalf of the judiciary.
Top photo: Blogger Lee gives the clenched fist for the May Day poster on Geary Boulevard.
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