Does anyone in here celebrate MayDay? What do you do for it in the local arena? Some people protest, some people just take the day off from work.

bunni

May Day? That sounds like Commie crap!

Excuse me while I dig out my old Soviet Union flag. ;-)

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First we all dance around the may pole. Later there is a big parade of soldiers, tanks and weaponry around Rittenhouse square. Comrade Street will be on the reviewing stand. ;-)

They've brought Lenin's corpse over for viewing too, right?

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Yeah, plus don't we still have ST. John Neumann on display in the church at 5th & Girard?

I believe so...I just passed by there yesterday...saw an awful lot of red...now it's clear why.

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The people who do celebrate it won't say anything.

bunni

Bunni is your family from Eastern Europe ?

You would think with American being the melting pot that there would be some sort of gathering somewhere for May Day.

You might want to try a club, like U.G.H. or something or a Russian Restaurant. I know there a few in the Bustleton section of the N. E.

I don't celebrate it myself. I was just kind of wondering about it locally. I know every May 1st there is a march in Washington for it.

Thanks for the input.

bunni

Bunni - and here I thought you were looking for fellow revelers.

I don't believe that there have been annual parades in Washington. Moscow used to be the site of massive parades of military might but that had to do with honored days in the country's revolution, not the western European celebration of spring (maypole, at all that). Now Rlc probably thinks that the two capitols are interchangeable but ...... :lol:

The only major demonstration for May Day was in 1971 and was against the war . . . and it wasn't held on May Day . . . and it wasn't even about May Day; it used the international distress call Mayday as its name - signaling that organizers felt that our nation was in distress.

Personally, I celebrate Arbor Day, when I refuse to eat any plant life and only munch on good old American red meat.

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