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A Day Without a Mexican - the movie
Has anyone seen it? How about some discussion? May 1 is in fact the day designated to the THE DAY. It's a mocumentary and quite funny...funny, funny
and sad, funny. And, scary funny. Your comments please on THE FILM. IOW, stay on topic, por favor!
Friends don't let friends drink white zinfandel.
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I have it. it tells the story about a day that the fields have nobody to pick the produce. a rich family wake up with no maide and don't know what to
do for breakfast. is't kind of funny but delivers the messageyou have to see it to come up with your own oppinion...
BAJA IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO BE, FUN,DANGEROUS,INCREDIBLE, REMOTE, EXOTIC..JUST GO AND HAVE FUN.....
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But, I keep asking what would happen if any major demographic group "disappeared" from the US?
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Frank
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Another one will take its place.
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Does the movie show on the walkout day, Budwieser and Marlboro show record sales? 
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I work with a documented man from Oaxaca... We talked about May 1 yesterday. He came so far and went through what was asked by the U.S. to WORK and
live here... What the illegal immigrant supporters are asking happen on May 1 makes him laugh.
May 1 is the world-wide communist's day of celebration... Funny they want to celebrate a failed system!
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May 1 is the world-wide communist's day of celebration... Funny they want to celebrate a failed system! |
May 1st is celebrated as Labor Day all over the world and has nothing to do with communism
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You got all your history and geography in our public school system, I take it???
My Baja Calendar for 2006 says Labor Day is Sept. 4, by the way... (all over the world on May 1?)
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The USA is not the world ,my friend, no matter how much they like to think so.
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But it is part of the world... and a pretty big part too (#4 in population and #4 in area last time I looked up the specs...)
The U.S. is also the most generous nation in the world, and ready to shed blood for the cause of freedom and for end of tyranny... If not for us, then
we would all be dead or speaking German, Russian, or Arabic depending on which conflict you don't think we should have been envolved in.
Sept. 4th is our labor day and I am proud of that.
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And a fine labor day it is , David.
And May 1st is a great day to honor workers around the globe.
And right you are-- we are always ready to shed blood-- for the cause of freedom, an end to tyranny, and whatever is in it for us. I know I'm leaving
myself wide open with this statement, but really, I believe we have fought some less than altruistic wars recently.
English is really not an inherently better language than others. I personally find German to be not very sonorous, and Russian and Arabic difficult
to learn.
But Spanish... now there is a lovely tongue.
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All over the world? Vandenberg
Labour Day in Canada is celebrated September 4th this year same as the USA.
Where are you getting your facts from??
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My Mexican calendar says May 1.
And, Paula, it's like the Texas Tornados sing..."Spanish is a Loving Tongue".
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exactly, Elizabeth...
that's an old song-- where did it come from?
Bob Dylan- 1973.
[Edited on 4-20-2006 by Paula]
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May 1st is celebrated as Labor Day all over the world and has nothing to do with communism ?????
who says that??
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May 1st is May day witch is the international distress signal.
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Well, we could also imagine...
...what Mexico would be like without all the gringo and Canadian dollars spent down there. Come to think of it, without all the dollars earned up here
and sent home by the illegals as well
All of that is probably far more important to Mexico than the illegals are to the US.
Hell, without all that, there would have been two or three more 1910s come along......
It's a rather sad testament to the inefficiency and corruption that is Mexico that they could have all that and incredible resources........... and
still 10-20 million people are forced to leave the country and their families behind.
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The international working class holiday; Mayday, originated in pagan Europe. It was a festive holy day celebrating the first spring planting. The
ancient Celts and Saxons celebrated May 1st as Beltane or the day of fire. Bel was the Celtic god of the sun.
The Saxons began their May day celebrations on the eve of May, April 30. It was an evening of games and feasting celebrating the end of winter and the
return of the sun and fertility of the soil. Torch bearing peasants and villager would wind their way up paths to the top of tall hills or mountain
crags and then ignite wooden wheels which they would roll down into the fields
The May eve celebrations were eventually outlawed by the Catholic church, but were still celebrated by peasants until the late 1700's. While good
church going folk would shy away from joining in the celebrations, those less afraid of papal authority would don animal masks and various costumes,
not unlike our modern Halloween. The revelers, lead by the Goddess of the Hunt; Diana (sometimes played by a pagan-priest in women's clothing) and the
Horned God; Herne, would travel up the hill shouting, chanting and singing, while blowing hunting horns. This night became known in Europe as
Walpurgisnacht, or night of the witches
The Celtic tradition of Mayday in the British isles continued to be celebrated through-out the middle ages by rural and village folk. Here the
traditions were similar with a goddess and god of the hunt.
As European peasants moved away from hunting gathering societies their gods and goddesses changed to reflect a more agrarian society. Thus Diana and
Herne came to be seen by medieval villagers as fertility deities of the crops and fields. Diana became the Queen of the May and Herne became Robin
Goodfellow (a predecessor of Robin Hood) or the Green Man.
The Queen of the May reflected the life of the fields and Robin reflected the hunting traditions of the woods. The rites of mayday were part and
parcel of pagan celebrations of the seasons. Many of these pagan rites were later absorbed by the Christian church in order to win over converts from
the 'Old Religion'.
Mayday celebrations in Europe varied according to locality, however they were immensely popular with artisans and villagers until the 19th Century.
The Christian church could not eliminate many of the traditional feast and holy days of the Old Religion so they were transformed into Saint days.
During the middle ages the various trade guilds celebrated feast days for the patron saints of their craft. The shoemakers guild honored St. Crispin,
the tailors guild celebrated Adam and Eve. As late as the 18th century various trade societies and early craft-unions would enter floats in local
parades still depicting Adam and Eve being clothed by the Tailors and St. Crispin blessing the shoemaker.
The two most popular feast days for Medieval craft guilds were the Feast of St. John, or the Summer Solstice and Mayday. Mayday was a raucous and fun
time, electing a queen of the May from the eligible young women of the village, to rule the crops until harbest. Our tradition of beauty pagents may
have evolved , albeit in a very bastardized form, from the May Queen.
Besides the selection of the May Queen was the raising of the phallic Maypole, around which the young single men and women of the village would dance
holding on to the ribbons until they became entwined, with their ( hoped for) new love.
And of course there was Robin Goodfellow, or the Green Man who was the Lord of Misrule for this day. Mayday was a celebration of the common people,
and Robin would be the King/Priest/Fool for a day. Priests and Lords were the butt of many jokes, and the Green Man and his supporters; mummers would
make jokes and poke fun of the local authorities. This tradition of satire is still conducted today in Newfoundland, with the Christmas Mummery.
The church and state did not take kindly to these celebrations, especially during times of popular rebellion. Mayday and the Maypole were outlawed in
the 1600's. Yet the tradition still carried on in many rural areas of England. The trade societies still celebrated Mayday until the 18th Century.
As trade societies evolved from guilds, to friendly societies and eventually into unions, the craft traditions remained strong into the early 19th
century. In North America Dominion Day celebrations in Canada and July 4th celebrations in the United States would be celebrated by tradesmen still
decorating floats depicting their ancient saints such as St. Crispin.
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May Day
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the distress signal, see: Mayday; For the James Bond villain see May Day (James Bond)
May Day is a name for various holidays celebrated on May 1 (or in the beginning of May). The most famous of these is International Workers' Day, which
is the commemoration of the social and economic achievements of the labor movement. The 1 May date is used because in 1884 the Federation of Organized
Trades and Labor Unions, inspired by Labor's 1872 success in Canada, demanded an eight-hour workday in the United States, to come in effect as of May
1, 1886. This resulted in the general strike and the U.S. Haymarket Riot of 1886, but eventually also in the official sanction of the eight-hour workd
Labour association
International Workers' Day is an international holiday celebrated on May 1st in commemoration of certain historic achievements of the labor movement
and in remembrance of the 1886 Haymarket Riot in Chicago, Illinois. In countries other than the United States and United Kingdom, where the term has
slightly different connotations, May Day is often referred to as Labor Day. In most other places of the world, the resident working classes fought
hard to make May Day an official government-recognized holiday.
Canada, Australia, and New Zealand celebrate Labour Day on different dates, which has to do with how the holiday originated in those countries; see
Loyalty Day and Law Day.
May Day has long been a focal point for demonstrations by various socialist, communist, and anarchist groups. In the 20th century, the holiday
received the official endorsement of the Soviet Union; celebrations in communist countries during the Cold War era often consisted of large military
parades and shows of common people in support of the government.
A May Day rally in Mumbai.
PFLP May Day poster
A rally in Stockholm, Sweden 1899.
1st May poster, Communist Poland
May Day in the United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, political events have sometimes split into two camps. The mainstream workers' movement celebrates May Day on the first Monday
in May, which is the national Spring Bank Holiday and may or may not actually occur on 1 May. Small-scale rallies are held by political parties
(generally including, but not limited to, the Labour Party, the Socialist Workers' Party, the Scottish Socialist Party, the Communist Party of Britain
and other left-wing groups). These occasions are typified by beer tents in parks and selling of Marxist propaganda materials.
The actual date of 1 May in the U.K., meanwhile, generally features rallies and demonstrations organised by anarchist groups, although in recent years
these have also involved communist groups, particularly those of the Trotskyist branch.
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May Day Militancy in Germany
May Day graffiti in Berlin. The text reads, "1 May: Cars burn, cops die." 'Bullen' (bulls, male cows) is a derogatory term used for the police.Berlin,
Germany, particularly in the districts of Kreuzberg and Prenzlauer Berg, traditionally has yearly demonstrations on May Day. In 1929, the social
democratic SPD government prohibited the annual May Day workers' demonstrations in Berlin. The communist party KPD, which was the strongest party in
Berlin, called demonstrations nonetheless. By the end of the day, 32 demonstrators, workers and bystanders had been killed by the police, at least 80
were seriously injured. The Berlin police, under control of the supposedly pro-labor social democratic government, had fired a total of 11,000 rounds
of live ammunition.
This incident, remembered as Blutmai (ger.) (blood May) deepened the split between the workers' parties KPD and SPD. This gave an advantage to the
N-zis, who became Germany's governing party in 1933, partly due to the fact that the KPD and SPD had been unable to form an anti-N-zi coalition. The
N-zis adapted May Day to their purposes, calling it the "day of work", which is still the official name for this public holiday. Ironically, just
after May Day - to be more precise, on May 2, 1933 - the N-zis outlawed all free labor unions and other independent workers' organizations in Germany.
The Reichsarbeitsdienst (or RAD, Reich Labour Service) was formed in July 1934 as an amalgamation of the outlawed unions.
In today's Germany May Day is still of political importance, with labor unions and parties using this day for political campaigns and activities, but
since 1987 it has also become known for heavy rioting by radical leftists, including the punk rock scene, Autonome, and others, but also "regular"
youths not fond of the police. However, May Day 2005 in Berlin was the most peaceful in nearly 23 years.
In recent years, neo-N-zis and other groups on the far right like the NPD have also used the day to schedule public demonstrations, often leading to
clashes with left-wing protesters, which turned especially violent in the historical city of Leipzig in 1998 and 2005.
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EuroMayDay
Since 2001, EuroMayDay has become part of the celebration of the First of May, aiming to update the political content of the traditional May Day. The
point of reference of EuroMayDay is not the industrial working class, but rather the multitude of increasingly precarized post-fordist
flex/temp/networkers. EuroMayDay aims to create visible opposition against precarization of labour and life. EuroMayDay was originated in Milan,
Italy, from where it first spread to Barcelona in 2004 and then to over a dozen cities all over Europe in 2005. In 2005, approximately 200.000 people
took part in the Europe-wide EuroMayDay.
In 2005, the EuroMayDay network used the slogan Precarious of the world let's unite and strike 4 a free open radical Europe. The Middlesex Declaration
of Europe's Precariat 2004 emerged from the Beyond ESF event held in parallel to the European Social Forum held in London in September 2004. In 2006,
even more cities are taking part in EuroMayDay. The amount of participants has increased from 5000 people in Milan in 2001 to 50.000 in 2003 and
100.000 in 2004 (Milan and Barcelona altogether). EuroMayDay Cities have included Amsterdam, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Helsinki, Jyv?skyl?,
L'Aquila, Leon, Liege, London, Maribor, Marseilles, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Paris, Seville, Stockholm and Vienna. External link:
Euromayday website
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Governmental Resistance to May Day
In the United States, instead of May Day, Labor Day is celebrated on the first Monday in September. It is a creation of the labor movement and is
dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made
to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of the country.
In a separate attempt to co-opt May Day, the Roman Catholic Church added another Saint Joseph's Day in 1955 that Christianized 1 May as the day of
"Saint Joseph, the Worker". It is perhaps surprising that the Church did not take this step earlier, to distract attention from the traditionally
virile pagan celebrations of May Day.
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Other Traditions
Morris dancing on May Day, Oxford 2004.Traditional English May Day rites and celebrations include Morris dancing, crowning a May Queen, celebrating
Green Man day and dancing around a Maypole. Much of this tradition derives from the pagan festival of Beltane.
In Oxford on May Morning, many pubs are open from sunrise, and some of the college bars are open all night. Madrigals are still sung from the roof of
the tower of Magdalen College, with thousands gathering on Magdalen Bridge to listen. Traditionally, revellers have jumped from the bridge into the
River Cherwell below as part of the celebrations. About one hundred people did this in 2005. The river, however, was then only three feet deep in
places and more than half of those who jumped needed medical treatment.
St Andrews has a similar student tradition ? the majority of the students gather on the beach late on April 30th and run into the North Sea at sunrise
on the 1st, often naked. This is accompanied by torchlit processions and much celebration.
May Day is exactly a half-year from November 1, All Saints' Day. Marking the end of the uncomfortable winter half of the year in the Northern
hemisphere, it has always been an occasion for popular and often raucous celebrations, regardless of the political or religious establishment. May Day
was also originally the Celtic holiday Beltaine, the "Return of the Sun". It is the third and last of the spring festivals. We can see traces of
Beltaine when dancing around the maypole or sending a basket of flowers to your neighbor's door.
Other holidays on May Day were also respected by some early European settlers of the American continent. The day also marks springtime celebrations
such as:
Walpurgis Night in Northern Europe, including the Finnish Vappu celebrations
Beltane in Ireland and Scotland
Roodmas
Calendimaggio in Northern and Central Italy, related to the return of the sun and spring
May Morning in Oxford
Hamilton College hosts an annual music outdoor music festival known as "May Day." However the name has no political connotations or association with
other May Day holidays. Rather the name simply refers to the fact that the festival is staged in late April or early May.
In Hawaii, May Day is also known as Lei Day, and is normally set aside as a day to celebrate island culture in general and native Hawaiian culture in
particular. In rural regions of Germany, Walpurgisnacht celebrations of pagan origin are traditionally held on the night before May Day, including
bonfires and the wrapping of May Poles, and young people use this opportunity to party, while the day itself is used by many families to get some
fresh air, wurst and beer. Motto: "Tanz in den Mai!" ("Dance in May!").
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