[SJackson]

To: SJackson
This issue is seriously overblown.

When I was growing up, (in the upper Midwest), May day was a huge holiday, where retail stores all had sidewalk sales, and parades were back to back all day long. It was also a factory holiday.

Call it what you will, but it is traditional and the fact that not everyone celebrated it, does not make it some sort of Communist plot as some have been saying.

I find all this hyperbole to be nonsense. Just plain vindictive nonsense from a right wing sector that has lost it's marbles.

28 posted on 05/01/2006 9:17:55 AM CDT by Cold Heat
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To: Cold Heat

Last year it was Schaivo. This year it's immigration. What will it be next year?

33 posted on 05/01/2006 9:20:45 AM CDT by jude24 ("The Church is a harlot, but she is my mother." - St. Augustine)

Per your comments on the locked thread, you might enjoy reading

Uno de Mayo--Radical leftists resume massive rallies on May Day...with illegal immigrants as props.

If you dismiss Frontpage Magazine as a vindictive right wing site, try the Socialist Worker Party for a more objective take on International Workers Day.

WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?--Renewing the traditions of May Day

Next year, same as this year, the celebration has been going on since the 19th century, they’ve simply found a new source of support.

[bella1]

Was it a predominantly Catholic area, as May 1 was celebrated as Mary Day (if I remember correctly), and the kids would have a parade around the Catholic church and local neighborhood.

[Old_Mil]

When I was growing up, (in the upper Midwest), May day was a huge holiday

I don't know about "huge" holiday but some do celebrate it. The first year I was married, my (very Reformed) ex-mother-in-law wished me a "Happy May Day". That sort of blew my mind, because I had always associated May Day with this...

[Beagle8U]

I grew up in a small isolated Michigan village where "May day" was celebrated by making small baskets of treats and gifts and leaving them on someones doorstep.

It had nothing to do with Communism or anything like that.

I may be wrong, but I think someone is hijacking the original intent of mayday.

[angkor]

Just had my car inspected at a local Shell station in Northern Virginia, dealt with an Hispanic guy who had the bearing of "new owner" (last year the station was owned by some Middle Eastern guys, and for many years before that by a native American).

Anyway, the new guy was friendly, efficient, and obviously commander of his ship.

He was hard at work, clearly he had no time to boycott anything.

[HungarianGypsy]

For my kids, May Day is the day they make flower baskets and the anniversary of that silly Middle Ages reenactment group known as the SCA.