Happy Mayday everybody.
That doesn't really mean all that much over here, does it? Elsewhere in the world however, festivities and gatherings are commonplace, on both the mainstream and activist fronts. From city festivals to worker marches, the world is awash in possibilities for the coming year.
Arguably, we in Canada get to experience a later Mayday with the 2-4 weekend in late May. Plenty of folks get good and drunk, precariously making their way down shorelines late at night trying to get back to their tents in a drunken stupor. Maybe this in and of itself is a fertility rite. This holiday does preclude the addition of a Mayday stat holiday from being a possibility in this country, despite the fact that an increasing number of people require an increasing amount of time away from their jobs in order to maintain a degree of sanity.
Now, I fully support a potentially debaucherous night of dancing, so maybe it's time that North America begin to accept and promote festival culture, thus allowing massive dance parties akin to those that Europeans routinely throw.
Then again, there should be a place for a national holiday marking activist movements in general. Maybe it could refer to civil rights movements in decades past, or highlight current struggles.
Still, wouldn't it really be nicer to dance naked around phallic structures, while throwing flowers and fruit juices at each other?
So in light of acting more or less democratically, which would you prefer,
this:
this:
(which by the way frequently results in this):
or this:
Personally, I'd like the left hand to greet the right, if you know what I mean. I'd love to see cops dancing around a maypole, but then again that might be a little too Pride Week, and Toronto already has a pretty killer party for that...
Regardless, join the fun.
Happy Mayday 2005 kids.
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