International Workers' Day (non-US)
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Tue, 05/01/2018 - 8:00am
Haymarket Affair
Bringing In The May: The Heroes of Haymarket
Submitted by thanatokephaloides on Sun, 04/30/2017 - 4:56pmThe following is a republication of a Beltaine Diary I wrote and published in 2015, with some small updates.
Bringing In The May:
The Heroes of Haymarket
by Sean McCullough
(thanatokephaloides)
One hundred and thirty-one years ago, history was made at the Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois.
This piece of history was so critically important to the lives of working men and women ever since that time that almost every nation on Earth, the United States of America alone excepted, celebrates its laboring population on the first of May.
I feel that we here at caucus99percent need to remember what happened on that fateful May evening in 1886, and the heroes who sacrificed their lives so that their fellow workers might have access to reasonable working and living conditions.
For more on this important story, please join me below the fold.
Beltaine with Walter Crane!
Submitted by thanatokephaloides on Sun, 04/30/2017 - 4:41pm
This Essay is one I published over at TOP in 2015, with a few changes and updates. It develops an idea which I find fascinating: that the International Labor Day, May 1, is the extension of the ancient Holy Day of Beltaine, and part and parcel of its resurgence in modern times. And the artwork of Walter Crane is pretty cool, too!
