Unlike the Cold War paranoia in the U.S. that eliminated the celebration, other countries still observe the end of winter with festivals.
Are you going to dance around the Maypole?
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\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
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At a location next to me, I would be dancing, too.
Great music!
Thanks, GJ
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
Originally posted by Gypsy Jan
Unlike the Cold War paranoia in the U.S. that eliminated the celebration, other countries still observe the end of winter with festivals.
It's, also celebrating International Workers Day which is what they celebrate in Mexico and used to celebrate in the old USSR:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"International Workers' Day (also known as May Day) is a celebration of the international labour movement. May 1 is a national holiday in more than 80
countries and celebrated unofficially in many other countries."
Even though Labor Day is celebrated as a national holiday on the first Monday of September in the US many cities and still also celebrate the original
date of May 1st:
"In the United States, efforts to officially switch Labor Day back to the international date of May 1 have not been successful. In 1921, following the
Russian Revolution of 1917, May 1 was promoted as "Americanization Day" by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and other groups in opposition to communism.
It became an annual event, sometimes featuring large rallies. In 1949, Americanization Day was renamed to Loyalty Day. In 1958, the U.S. Congress
declared Loyalty Day, the U.S. recognition of May 1, a national holiday; that same year, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed May 1 Law Day
as well. Today this holiday, while still on the books, is not widely celebrated.
Unions and union locals in the United States — especially in urban areas with strong support for organized labor — have maintained a connection with
labor traditions through their own unofficial observances on May 1. Some of the largest examples of this occurred during the Great Depression of the
1930s, when hundreds of thousands of workers marched in May Day parades in New York's Union Square. Groups have kept the May Day tradition alive with
rallies and demonstrations in such cities as New York, Chicago and Seattle, often with major union backing."
And to think a legally re-elected democratic government in Venezuela is treated worse by the State Department than the horrors of Zaire, Uganda, and
nations observing Sharia law. This does not speak well of the level of intelligence of people who have misguided sensibilities.
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