Happy May Day!

[sabotabby]

 It's May Day and hopefully we've all learned that CEOs can fuck off to their bunkers without much effect on the world, but without frontline workers, including and especially those typically denigrated as "unskilled" and undeserving of minimum wage increases, society would completely collapse.

Rise up (at least 6 ft away from your fellow workers) and break those chains, everyone!

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[minoanmiss]

*cheers in agreement*

[sabotabby]

If we could just come out of this with societal respect and a thriving wage for workers, that would be rad.

[franklanguage]

We can dream.

[smilingslightly]

Happy May Day!



When I was a kid we used to make baskets full of candy and other goodies on May Day, leave them on people's doorsteps, complete strangers or friends, ring their bells and run. No credit, no recompense, no awkward social niceties. Enough of an established custom in that time and place still that it likely read as charming rather than alarming.

As a young adult, I read (in some new age almanac probs) it strengthened one's cucumber yield *nudgenudgewinkwink* to have a nubile young man plant them in the field naked at dawn. I've mostly gardened in climes where cucurbits don't get planted out til June but you can still have your willing skyclad specimen out there with the pots and soil mix, shivering away under first light's glow, hot beverage on standby for the hero's return.

I strongly feel all these life/community-strengthening May Day actions (and the like) can and should be incorporated into a blissful whole :D


[My (ancient) rise-up icons aren't selectable so I have pastede them on yay!]

[sabotabby]

I love that May Day and Beltane are such interconnected celebrations. And the candy tradition is wonderful.

Your icons rule.

[kore]

I seem to remember reading in an Alcott-type book about young maidens leaving May baskets of flowers on doorsteps? Did I hallucinate this?

[sabotabby]

That sounds familiar so probably not?

[sara]

SABS GO READ THIS: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-area-essential-workers-jobs-changed-due-to-coronavirus-heres-what-they-want-you-to-know/?utm_source=marketingcloud&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Morning+Brief+5-1-20_5_1_2020&utm_term=Active%20subscriber

[sabotabby]

This is excellent.

[annie_r]

We had maypole dances in nyc public schools in the 60s/70s. I don't think the May festival was held strictly on May 1 - I think they waited for the weather to warm up a bit more. It was considered a Spring sort of thing and not a worker sort of thing, though. At least that's what they told us :)

[sabotabby]

That's slightly more common here in terms of anyone other than leftists.

[symbioid]

SOLIDARITY NOW!

[sabotabby]

NOW AND ALWAYS

[kore]

This was really good: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1255847973797462016.html

[sabotabby]

Holy shit, yeah.