#samwallman #HappyMayDay! here is an ode to the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union - one of my favourite unions, based on a quote from Anwen Crawford at the Better Read Than Dead strike
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#HappyMayDay Ted Cruz or is that the prime minister? #MemeAtMeBro another one from Neil

MAY DAY BINGO!
Have some fun with your friends✨

#MayDay #Friends #Spring #Games #HappyMayDay

I may be working this May Day, but know that I'm celebrating free love and springtime dreams in my mind.
Someone mentioned reading Marxist literature on this day, but I'm the flowers and spring May Day person. Think I'll go take some pics of the bees.
However you celebrate, #HappyMayDay

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Fun fact...

Back in the day (of dinosaurs), kids celebrated May Day.

We would weave construction paper into baskets or cones and fill it with treats and flowers.

We would then hang them on the doors of friends and family, knock, yell, "May basket!" and run away.

Sweetly simpler times.

#HappyMayDay

#HappyMayDay ✊ #May1st ✊#InternationalDayOfLabour ✊#LabourDay ✊#InternationalWorkersDay ✊

#HappyMayDay

#PhilEvans #HappyMayDay #cartoon
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How rad to be side by side with @margaretkilljoy for this early May Day celebration—at least in spirit via our books, both published by the equally rad Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness collective!

And while our anarchist holiday thankfully doesn’t revolve around shopping, anarchist books have a long, storied history in educating, agitating, and being the inspiration for all sorts of good troublemaking. They also make for good bedtime reading given that they’re filled with the stuff of sweet dreams. Plus in this case, you can get both our new books through May 7, so you can focus fully and freely on May 1.

That said, I hope you do decide to snag copies of my “Try Anarchism for Life: The Beauty of Our Circle” and Margaret’s “Escape from Incel Island.” I also hope that my book encourages you to remember some of the many beautiful reasons we’re in the streets, forests, cities, and elsewhere, not merely fighting for a better world, but already living as if it were here.

May Day and books—and who we are and what we put into this world—are crucial carriers of the flames of liberation and freedom, especially in a time that feels and is so antithetical to all we strive for and try hard to prefigure. We need our blessed flames more than ever as the gloom and doom of fascism descends.

So write, read, and rebel, knowing that words can shape and transform lives, that words can be our weapon and collective defense, that words can keep us going and lend comfort and joy to each other. Words can sabotage the current social order by sharing stories of what’s possible instead.

Plus both our books, in this specific instance, are fun to read.

To order, see www.tangledwilderness.org

Use the promo code: MAYDAY.

#TryAnarchismForLife
#BeautyOfOurCircle
#ReadWriteRebel
#AlwaysCarryABook
#AnarchistsCareAboutBooks
#HappyMayDay

(photo features the covers of the two books—Margaret’s with a drawing of swords and palm trees sticking out of an island, and mine sporting a big, bright pink circle A with a simple floral pattern in it surrounded by a spring-green background)

#HappyBeltane

#HappyMayDay

#Learning from #history

"May 1971, with its helium balloons and marijuana-smoking 'tribes', hadn't been the most conventional May Day. It was a far cry from the "independent action of the proletarian masses…the political action of the millions of workers" which Rosa Luxemburg witnessed in 1913." ...

https://radicalteatowel.co.uk/blog/the-1971-may-day-challenge-to-nixon

@anxiousBug
#HappyMayDay to you too

#HappyMayDay #1mai

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