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30 Apr 05 - 10:14 PM (#1475397) Subject: Keeping May Day From: GUEST,Mark Clark Since much of the folk music in the D.T. Database and elsewhere was written to help working people maintain an awareness of the struggle against bosses around the globe, it seems appropriate to remember that May 1 is labor day nearly everywhere but the U.S. Some background. |
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30 Apr 05 - 10:44 PM (#1475415) Subject: RE: Keeping May Day From: GUEST,.gargoyle Unnnnmmmmmhhhhhh_ - Mr. MarX
From the time I was about seven-years-old, I have celebrated May 01.
It was a family tradition to gather flowers and annonymously give them in paper-woven-baskets on the door-knobs of neighbors.
It was FUN!!!!! (little gangsters gathering gloosems in the dark)
Sincerely,
Something in the observance has become fetid and putrid.... and the smell appears to be from your corner. |
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01 May 05 - 12:21 AM (#1475459) Subject: RE: Keeping May Day From: Kaleea I, also, was taught to give flowers to any who come a-visiting on May Day. |
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01 May 05 - 04:59 AM (#1475531) Subject: RE: Keeping May Day From: GUEST,JUNE Surely May Day was celebrated for hundreds of years before it was hijacked by socialism and called Labour Day. Keep politics out of it. I feel the same way about the British Labour Party adopting the red rose as 'their' symbol. |
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01 May 05 - 06:31 AM (#1475545) Subject: RE: Keeping May Day From: John J 'Tis Beltane. John |
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01 May 05 - 10:27 AM (#1475674) Subject: RE: Keeping May Day From: Flash Company And I danced wi' a girl wi' a hole in her stocking1 FC |
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01 May 05 - 10:42 PM (#1476164) Subject: RE: Keeping May Day From: goodbar i'm a middle class white boy from the suburbs. why would i care! |
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01 May 05 - 11:02 PM (#1476171) Subject: RE: Keeping May Day From: dianavan Because the cycle of the seasons means we begin anew. It a re-birth of Spring. Celebrate love, fertility and abundance. Celebrate the green Earth. Dance and give praise. Raise your voices in song. I am proud to have been born on the Beltain. |
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01 May 05 - 11:24 PM (#1476180) Subject: RE: Keeping May Day From: GUEST,.gargoyle
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02 May 05 - 12:57 AM (#1476224) Subject: RE: Keeping May Day From: gecko Depending on which hemisphere you live in of course, May 1 means different things to different people. The Labour Day March and celebrations here in Cairns, Far North Queensland, were bigger than ever this year with many unionists, friends and others joining in to make a point to the Howard government about the proposed slashing of workers rights under the proposed Industrial Relations Legislation. After the march there were some motivational speeches, one from Julia Gillard amongst others, followed by some great music partly supplied by 'Mangrove Jack', a well known local folk band with several recordings to their name. The late but not so great Joh didn't escape unscathed in the process either! Yours in Unity gecko |
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02 May 05 - 01:14 AM (#1476227) Subject: RE: Keeping May Day From: Ebbie May is an important month, it seems. The May Pole, the flower basket, the school children busily creating paper treasurs. Cinco de Mayo, of course. And didn't the Soviet Union put on its big military parade in May? And the USA celebrates Memorial Day at the end of the month. Any others? |
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02 May 05 - 01:52 AM (#1476241) Subject: RE: Keeping May Day From: Haruo So is Beltane Gaulish for "Help me!"? Haruo |
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02 May 05 - 02:54 AM (#1476271) Subject: RE: Keeping May Day From: Les in Chorlton http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/paganism/festivals/beltane.shtml BBC and Beltane |
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02 May 05 - 06:11 AM (#1476318) Subject: RE: Keeping May Day From: Michael My Great Aunt was born on 1st May 1900, was christened Ellen May, washed her face in May dew first thing in the morning on her birthday every year of her life. Her mother did this when she was born and told her she would stay beautiful if continued it. She always looked young for her age and died in her late 80s. She was also a devout and active Methodist all her life too. Mike |