May Day!

[mrmitchell]

Che when did May Day fall out of favor in the US? My mom remembers having May Day events in school.

[Wezil]

Che when did May Day fall out of favor in the US? My mom remembers having May Day events in school.

Probably when the Euro commies started enforcing participation.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Commies

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[mrmitchell]

Probably when the Euro commies started enforcing participation.

We're talking early Sixties here.

[Wezil]

That would be about right then.

[onodera]

40-hour week
Peace, Labour, May!

[BeBMan]

Day off here. Great achievement of teh intl proletariat

[chequita guevara]

Che when did May Day fall out of favor in the US? My mom remembers having May Day events in school.

I don't know, but my guess would be during McCarthyism and the Cold War. Since Labor Day in the U.S. in the First Monday in September, instead of May 1, there was no strong base for May Day in America.

Interestingly, I also remember May Day celebrations in school, but it was the pagan May Day, and we would make paper cut out flowers to give to people and do something with a Maypole. Not that it was a pagan celebration.

[Wezil]

I'm anti-May Day.

I refuse to work 40 hour weeks.

[Theben]

Lazy bastard.

[Wezil]

I did 36 this week and I'm wore out.

[Eli]

124 years later, and Americans still don't have the 8 hour day. The average American works 45 hours a week.

I can't even comprehend a 45 hour week. This sucks.

[Drake Tungsten]

Castro blasts Obama, says US wants Cuba as slave

8 hours ago

HAVANA (AFP) — Fidel Castro blasted US President Barack Obama Friday in provocative May Day remarks, saying the United States only wanted Cuba to return "to the fold, like slaves."

Castro, 82, who led Cuba for almost 50 years and remains head of the Cuban Communist Party, was not in outreach mode, though Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro, 77, have willingness to ease Cold War-era tensions.

"Today, they stand ready to forgive us -- as if we would resign ourselves to returning to the fold like slaves, who after tasting freedom, go back to the yoke and whip," Fidel Castro said in a defiant address published in Cuban state media to mark May Day.

Obama has said the United States wants to see progress on human rights and political freedom from Cuba. That runs counter to Cuba's main interest in maintaining and projecting the Americas' only communist regime into the future.

Castro, who for decades referred to the United States as the enemy, warned: "The (US) adversary must never delude itself into thinking that Cuba will surrender."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gz_OQbL5EcQiTCISjicNG0WqzRtQ

[chequita guevara]

http://www.miamiherald.com/460/story/1028514.html

[SlowwHand]

All Fidel's boys are taking over Florida? Big news. He should STFU.