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What Is May Day?
InvestorPlace ^ | 5-1-2015 | William White

Posted on 05/01/2015 9:40:55 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

Today, March 1, 2015, is May Day, which is also known as International Workers’ Day.

May Day’s origins date back to May 1, 1886. It was on this day that 200,000 U.S. workers protested across the country. Their goal was an eight-hour workday and some of the protests turned violent. This became known as the Haymarket affair and it was declared a holiday by the International Socialist Conference three years later, reports Time.

The holiday spread to the rest of the world, while never quite picking up steam in America. Instead, we have Labor Day, which takes place in September. This is likely due to the socialist and communist connections of the holiday. President Eisenhower tried to further distance America from the holiday by declaring May 1 as Loyalty Day in 1958, Time notes.

May Day has been rising in popularity as a celebrated holiday in the U.S. for the last few years. Immigrants have used it as a time to protests in favor of legally moving to the country and working there. This year, many have used it to push the “Black Lives Matter” campaign, which stands against police brutality, reports the Associated Press.


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International co-opt-your-cause day.
1 posted on 05/01/2015 9:40:55 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed
The holiday spread to the rest of the world

The hell it did.

What's more: Mayday has been a holiday since before Christ. Where does this guy get off trying to co-opt ancient traditions for his sad little cause?

2 posted on 05/01/2015 9:45:51 AM PDT by agere_contra (Hamas has dug miles of tunnels - but no bomb-shelters.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Happy Inter-trash-it-all Commie Day!


3 posted on 05/01/2015 9:51:49 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: GraceG

I hope it rains on their parade.


4 posted on 05/01/2015 9:54:34 AM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: GraceG

In honor of the socialist workers paradise, I work today!


5 posted on 05/01/2015 9:55:22 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: Citizen Zed
In Seattle media it is the day we watch kids who live in their Moms basement emerge from playing xbox and wander the streets aimlessly followed by reporters hoping that the narcissistic little wimps will break a window or something like that.
6 posted on 05/01/2015 9:56:22 AM PDT by right way right
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To: Citizen Zed
"May Day’s origins date back to May 1, 1886."

Absolutely false. The Spring holy day, known as "May Day" since the medieval period, has been marked since before the dawn of Christianity.

7 posted on 05/01/2015 9:57:55 AM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Cruz or lose!)
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To: agere_contra; Citizen Zed

My family moved from the farm to the “city” in Kansas in 1952. I remember every May 1st we would do the maypole celebration at school. Only time that I was allowed to wear a pink dress with a white organdy apron and I remember that the fabric strips were pink and white and we would do some kind of a dance while interwinding the strips. Don’t think anyone ever told us why we were doing it other than it seemed like it was a fun day in the 6th grade.


8 posted on 05/01/2015 9:59:59 AM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd; shibumi

It’s a pagan fertility/fire festival.

Everybody get nekkid!

Happy Beltane!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8_mYhYLTLk


9 posted on 05/01/2015 10:11:31 AM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: TexasRepublic

[ In honor of the socialist workers paradise, I work today! ]

I practice a Fast, as in I only eat Fast Food today!


10 posted on 05/01/2015 10:12:56 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Citizen Zed

“William White is a graduate of Washington State Community College. William is an avid gamer at heart and loves keeping up with the game industry. He started his professional writing career in 2010 when he took up a job writing video game reviews for Game Industry News. Since then, he has obtained his own weekly column focusing on indie games and developers. William lives happily in the southern Ohio area with his wife.”

Author probably thinks the May Poll is a vote.


11 posted on 05/01/2015 10:13:35 AM PDT by Usagi_yo (Give me liberty or give me a cash settlement.)
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To: Grams A

Rent “The Wicker Man”.
[the original film, not the remake]

;D


12 posted on 05/01/2015 10:14:36 AM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: Usagi_yo

13 posted on 05/01/2015 10:17:00 AM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: Salamander

Will consider. Want to read about it first. Not much into scary movies, particularly with everything else that is going on in this day and age. Thanks.


14 posted on 05/01/2015 10:20:35 AM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Grams A

You should pass, then.

It’s a taught mystery with a harrowing end.

Just look it up on Wiki, instead.

:)


15 posted on 05/01/2015 10:22:23 AM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: Grams A

We had a celebration like that once, in 4th grade but we never had one again.


16 posted on 05/01/2015 10:32:25 AM PDT by darkangel82
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To: Citizen Zed

Beltane is actually much older than that. It’s the day when cattle are moved to summer pasture and ceremonial bonfires are lit. Like Baltimore.


17 posted on 05/01/2015 10:38:08 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Citizen Zed

It seems that there are a lot of folks that have forgotten the brighter side of May Day, before the pre-Marxist/Communist crowd stole it.

May Day, for as long as there has been a history in Europe, has always been a time of celebrations, weddings, and town-communal activities.

Look at these, and NO, there is NO Socialist dribble there.

http://www.lyndonirwin.com/maypole.htm

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/entertainment/the-scene/May-Day-Find-Your-Celebration-of-Spring-301945331.html

http://www.germanculture.com.ua/library/weekly/aa042601a.htm

http://www.guy-sports.com/humor/saints/may_day_customs.htm

And with that, I’ll shut up.


18 posted on 05/01/2015 11:22:15 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Salamander

Okey dokey. But I will read a little more about it. I’m not a total wuss - I do watch Criminal Minds but that’s about the extent of it. I remember when I was in high school and we went to see the original Frankenstein in black and white. I do know we screamed a lot but that’s what girls our age were supposed to do. Also watched all the Halloween flicks and even saw them with my kids when they were teenagers but that was just Halloween stuff. Beyond that I’ll take a pass. Lots of things I know are out there but I just don’t want to see them.


19 posted on 05/01/2015 2:14:18 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Grams A

Really ?

You need to do a little more research ?

May Day is a rallying cry for the Socialist/communist agenda of “Workers of the World Unite”.


20 posted on 05/01/2015 2:20:13 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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