May Day is not just a Labor Day, it is also a Spring Day.
Happy Holliday Everyone!

May 1, 2008

UK:


London May Day Organising Committee



In Norwich, the Fiddlesticks Morris dancers welcomed May Day with an early morning display in the city centre.
BBC NEWS | In Pictures | Celebrations held to mark May Day

Cuba:



Cuban officials say 500,000 people are taking part in festivities

Hundreds of thousands of Cubans are attending a May Day parade in Havana honouring the world's workers.
President Raul Castro, who succeeded his ailing brother Fidel in February, is attending the celebrations. He did not address the crowds.
Raul Castro, 76, has introduced a series of reforms since becoming the leader of the Communist state.

BBC NEWS | Americas | Huge rally in Cuba marks May Day

Russia:



30,000 take part in May Day rallies in downtown Moscow

01/ 05/ 2008

MOSCOW, May 1 (RIA Novosti) - Around 30,000 people are taking part in May Day rallies in downtown Moscow, the chief spokesman for the Moscow police said on Thursday.
"The situation is calm, everything is proceeding according to plan. Everyone is in a festive mood," Viktor Biryukov said.
May 1 is Spring and Labor Day across Russia, a national holiday. In Soviet times May 1 saw massive pro-Communist Party rallies.

RIA Novosti - Russia - 30,000 take part in May Day rallies in downtown Moscow


May Day marchers take to the streets



video - RussiaToday : News : May Day marchers take to the streets

Russia is marking May Day with rallies taking place all over the country. Tens of thousands of people are taking part in peaceful demonstrations held by political parties in central Moscow. Opposition parties, including the Communists, are taking the opportunity to speak out against the government.

The march of United Russia’s supporters and trade unions in central Moscow has attracted almost 23,000 people and proceeded down the main thoroughfare of Moscow, Tverskaya Street, towards the Kremlin.
More than 2,000 United Russia activists then gathered in the capital’s Pushkinskaya square. The Communist party has attracted around 4,000 of its supporters to Teatralnya Square.

RussiaToday : News : May Day marchers take to the streets

Here's how we celebrate May Day in NE Wisconsin...

Happy May Day.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

Workers of the world and oppressed peoples unite.

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Viva Fidel

If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

And Riots come about every year...

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Pioneers are walking all around singing songs about Lenin and they should be shot for it.

Handlebars

"If you are looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror"- V

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

come on you know you wanna play football..

Beagán agus a rá go maith.

Economic Left/Right: 3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.87

HAPPY BELTANE!

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"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson

Walter Mondale: "George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize." George Bush: "Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time."

Opressed people uniting? Wrong. It is a day to "celebrate the economic and social achievements of workers".

If you think that it is a day for the opressed to unite, so be it. That leaves them 364 days to complain about how the man is keeping them down.