May Day May Day

Ok so much to celebrate today
Today is May Day
International Workers Day
People all over are celebrating
And protesting for Workers Rights in the streets
This is an issue that must get dealt with
Especially here in California
Where Immigrant policy is racism in action

BERLIN (AP) - In Germany, unions took aim at corporate greed. In Bangladesh, garment factory employees called for better working conditions. And in Turkey, police fired pepper spray and tear gas to disperse demonstrators denouncing the International Monetary Fund and the United States.

Hundreds of thousands of people rallied around the world for May Day, with protests in Switzerland, Sweden, Turkey and Chile turning violent on the traditional workers' holiday.

Here in the US:
Demanding reform of U.S. immigration laws, more than a million people took to the nation's streets Monday in what some observers said could herald a new civil rights movement.

In the nation's largest coordinated demonstration since the war in Vietnam, hundreds of thousands of immigrants, legal and illegal, and their supporters turned out in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Jose and other major cities. They called for justice, dignity and legal residence for illegal immigrants in the United States.
SF Gate


It is also Beltane

Beltane has long been celebrated with feasts and rituals. Beltane means fire of Bel; Belinos being one name for the Sun God, whose coronation feast we now celebrate. As summer begins, weather becomes warmer, and the plant world blossoms, an exuberant mood prevails. In old Celtic traditions it was a time of unabashed sexuality and promiscuity where marriages of a year and a day could be undertaken but it is rarely observed in that manner in modern times.

In the old Celtic times, young people would spend the entire night in the woods "A-Maying," and then dance around the phallic Maypole the next morning. Older married couples were allowed to remove their wedding rings (and the restrictions they imply) for this one night. May morning is a magickal time for wild water (dew, flowing streams, and springs) which is collected and used to bathe in for beauty, or to drink for health.

Think of the May pole as a focal point of the old English village rituals. Many people would rise at the first light of dawn to go outdoors and gather flowers and branches to decorate their homes. Women traditionally would braid flowers into their hair. Men and women alike would decorate their bodies. Beltane marks the return of vitality, of passion. Ancient Pagan traditions say that Beltane marks the emergence of the young God into manhood. Stirred by the energies at work in nature, he desires the Goddess. They fall in love, lie among the grasses and blossoms, and unite. The Goddess becomes pregnant of the God. To celebrate, a wedding feast, for the God and Goddess must be prepared.
From:The Celtic Connection


Ok so the long and the short of it is that this is a very sexy and hot holiday so all of you should get off the computer right now and go shag! Peace!