May Day - a May 1st traditional public holiday and ancient Northern Hemisphere spring festival in many cultures - AND - International Workers Day, recognition of the working class and many bloody battles and lives lost for rights in a complex largely forgotten history dating back over 1.5 centuries.

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[–]Tom_Bombadil 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

A crucial detail is missing.

May day is the international workers day to show solidarity with American workers who were being savagely beaten and murdered for demanding rights.

The US was a slaver nation only 40 years prior to this era.

I don't recall that US officially recognizes this holiday.

However, in the 80's Reagan declared May 1st "Law Day". Thanks Reagan, for a useless holiday. More brainwashing.

Americans rarely understand what is happening in the rest of the world. We are free to think our say what we want.
However, the truth if history has been stolen from us through historical revisionism.

We've been deliberately brainwashed, and we don't have a clue about the facts. :-(

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A+++ Great comment!

[–]hennaojisan 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

After the Maypole dance the young used to pair off and head for the high grass to...look for four-leafed clover.

[–]VantaFount 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

It's also the day when you're supposed to load a sacrifice into The Wicker Man and burn it.
Just saying it's an option.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

What, you didn't?

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wikipedia has sanitized their article on May Day even worse than the History Channel account: https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/history-of-may-day

https://www.britannica.com/topic/May-Day-international-observance

Industrial Workers Of The World, A Union For All Workers, The Brief Origins of May Day, By Eric Chase - 1993. https://iww.org/history/library/misc/origins_of_mayday

May Day 2019 [Around The World]: Workers demand higher wages, rights, respect: https://www.apnews.com/f3ad07830d0549d4b94a955d0d44c6f2

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=May+Day