Mayday Greetings!

[Idris2002]

Anyway, what was mayday like where you are?

Very quiet here in my bit of the former GDR, but that was partly because we had a visit from the Rain Gods.

 

[Greebo]

Anyway, what was mayday like where you are? <snip>

Work as per usual. Drizzle most of the day, with one heavy rain shower. On my way through Brockwell Park, I saw one bloke who was perplexed at the hawthorn trees bearing berries and blossom at the same time.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Up to me eyes with filling, sanding & painting. Beats fuckin work though

 

[kebabking]

Anyway, what was mayday like where you are?...

i greased the wheels of the capitalist war-machine with the sweat of the prolatariat, knocked off early to do a bit of decorating in KebabPrincess#1's room, and had sausages, eggs and chips for tea.

tommorow i shall place the imperialist jackboot of oppression on the necks of the downtrodden masses, see if i can create an excuse to get over to Brecon to participate in their excellent 'Curry Friday', and then pick up the caravan for this weekends Green Man Festival.

the work of the Borgeoisie running dog is never done...

 

[JimW]

Friend posted this photo from the '89 social movement:

 

[rekil]

There were scuffles between anarchists and communists in Santiago but this is new.

 

[Voley]

"Troubled, about three in the morning, with my wife’s calling her maid up, and rising herself, to go with her coach abroad, to gather May- dew, which she did, and I troubled for it, for fear of any hurt, going abroad so betimes, happening to her; but I to sleep again, and she come home about six, and to bed..." (Samuel Pepys 1669)

That's a nice turn of phrase that I'll try to use as an excuse for being late today. "I do not apologise for my tardiness, good sir, I was merely tarrying for fear of any hurt of going abroad so betimes."

 

[Voley]

I remember when I read Robinson Crusoe he kept 'going abroad with his musket'. Confused the hell out of me at the time. I kept thinking if he was capable of foreign travel he wasn't exactly marooned and the book was a bit of a sham.

 

[StoneRoad]

Fraternal greetings for yesterday and onwards .................. weather is better today !

 

[rekil]

Fighting between communists and anarchists in Santiago at the 1:35ish mark. I think there was a row, someone got knocked out, then it all kicked off as Mason would say.

 

[goldenecitrone]

Billy Bragg playing the Hammersmith Apollo tonite if anyone in the vicinity feels like socialisting out

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He sang a rousing version of the Internationale as his guitar was being restrung. And finished the night with a rocking A13.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

There were scuffles between anarchists and communists in Santiago but this is new.

That happens every year in Seattle. Last year they had so many arrests and injuries that there was an official investigation.

Peaceful May Day demonstrations in Seattle descended into violence when a rogue group of protesters threw bottles and firecrackers at police, who arrested nine people, authorities said on Friday.

Hundreds of protesters had marched in support of immigration rights and a rise in the minimum wage on Thursday afternoon, but early in the evening a second, "un-permitted" protest group began marching, police said on their website....

Last year, protests in Seattle also turned violent. Eight officers were injured and 17 protesters arrested.

(my bold)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/02/us-usa-seattle-protests-idUSBREA410GR20140502

 

[Sirena]

Primrose Hill in London at 5.30 this glorious morning

 

[DotCommunist]

 

[Sirena]

 

[Pickman's model]

I remember when I read Robinson Crusoe he kept 'going abroad with his musket'. Confused the hell out of me at the time. I kept thinking if he was capable of foreign travel he wasn't exactly marooned and the book was a bit of a sham.

I hope you have since found the obvious things thread

 

[StoneRoad]

Fraternal Greetings to one and all.
Hope the May Day weather improves (very wet here in North Wales currently after a dry and partly sunny day yesterday)

 

[Sirena]

Cause it's the first of May, first of May
Outdoor fucking starts today.....

 

[Schmetterling]

Wacht auf, Verdammte dieser Erde
die stets man noch zum Hungern zwingt!

Arise ye workers from your slumbers
Arise ye prisoners of want!

Happy 1st May!

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Outdoor fucking starts today.....

no thanks. not until it gets quite a bit warmer...



Transpontine piece (available in more detail as pdf download) about May Day in south London here

 

[Mr Retro]

I'm in Helsinki - I didn't realise how nuts they go for it here. It's very

 

[TikkiB]

I'm in Helsinki - I didn't realise how nuts they go for it here. It's very

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I was in Helsinki last year in April and we heard how much they love Mayday. Apparently there is much much drinking. I'm intending to be there for it sometime myself.

 

[krink]

some dick complaining that may day rallies are being taken over by lefties.

 

[Mr Retro]

I was in Helsinki last year in April and we heard how much they love Mayday. Apparently there is much much drinking. I'm intending to be there for it sometime myself.

I recommend it. It's a harsh long winter and mayday is the sigh of relief. Good natured all-in all-age celebration and piss-up where the normally reticent Finns let their hair down.

 

[Sirena]

Just finish off the day with a little clip of a Morris dance at dawn this morning

 

[albionism]

Lurking at the back of the paranoid Anarchist bloc in Sydney

 

[JimW]

Lurking at the back of the paranoid Anarchist bloc in Sydney

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Your red arrow is somewhat obviating the old blurred faces there mate.

 

[albionism]

I don't mind letting everyone know that's me.

 

[JimW]

I don't mind letting everyone know that's me.

I spotted that!

 

[FNG]

spare a moment for the workers of eygpt
http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2016/05/01/worker-arrested-ahead-labour-day-protests/