Comment by 🥬 lamb-duh
Re: "Tomorrow - 1st of May, in Romania, we celebrate Labor Day…"
in north america, the official labour day at the beginning of september. May first is not recognized as a holiday, but many people in the labour movement celebrate "May day" in rememberance of the Haymarket affair and see it as a more legitimate labour day exactly because it's not officially recognized. Around here anyway the two days look pretty similar except that the parade was organized by communists instead of city council.
Apr 30 · 7 days ago
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It's supposed to be a day of festivities to celebrate the coming year and fertility. Traditional May Day celebrations include gathering wildflowers, weaving floral garlands, crowning a May king and queen, and dancing around a decorated Maypole.
Except now it's been turned into something quite different.
🚀 SavaRocks [OP] · May 01 at 03:17:
@stack it's not absurd, it's quite nice
@stack @lamd-duh @Ashnar @norayr 🍻
Well, ok, not absurd but odd.
I would prefer a fxxking-off-work day personally
🚀 lars_the_bear · May 02 at 16:42:
In my region, we still celebrate May 1st with fertility rituals -- maypoles, men wearing bells hitting sticks together, that kind of thing. It's charmingly ridiculous.
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Tomorrow - 1st of May, in Romania, we celebrate Labor Day by staying at home 😅, partying. Do you celebrate this holiday in your country? If yes, how?