May Day
May Day!
May 1, 2020
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‘Walter Crane used his art to inspire workers – he was in favour of social reform as well as condemning the dehumanising effects of industry.’
May Day 1886
May 1, 2019
‘The first national turnout for worker’s rights in the U.S. was on May 1, 1886 — and contrary to what we’ve heard elsewhere, it wasn’t the same thing as the Haymarket Affair.
International Workers’ Day is celebrated with rallies and protests all over the world on May 1st, but it’s not a big deal in the United States. In this podcast extra, Brooke speaks to Donna Haverty-Stacke of Hunter College, CUNY about the U.S. origin of May Day and how it has come to be forgotten.
Haverty-Stacke is also author of America’s Forgotten Holiday: May Day and Nationalism, 1867–1960, and she explains that the fight over May 1st, or May Day, is also about the fight for American identity and what it means to be radical and patriotic at the same time.’
Listen [17:22]:
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/mayday-may-day
The On The Media crew sings “Into The Streets May First” a never-before-professionally-recorded 1935 Aaron Copland anthem in honor of May Day.
Joy within me.
May 1, 2018
Joy has come to live with me. How can I be sad?
I do so love Thy presence, which is joy within me.
-Ernest Holmes
Be like the bird
That, pausing in her flight
Awhile on boughs too slight,
Feels them give way
Beneath her and yet sings,
Knowing that she had wings.
-Victor Hugo
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your
grasp, but which if you will sit down quiet, may alight upon you.
-Nathanial Hawthorne
Joy is the realization of the truth of one-ness, the oneness of our soul with
the Supreme love.
-Ravindranath Tagore
Happy May. Happy new birth. Happy love.