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 Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 11:33 pm Post subject: Happy Mother's Day |
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Happy Mother's Day to all the Mommy Ladies out there!
  
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 May you mothers and grandmothers have a blessed day!
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I did intend to reply to this, and then I forgot. 
Thank you.
We must have Mother's Day on the same day as the U.S.
When is Father's Day over there? Here it is the first Sunday in September.
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Over here it's the first Sunday in June.
In September we have Labor Day. It's the 1st Monday. That's a day where we "celebrate" the workers, or something like that. It's another day off. It kind of marks the end of summer here.
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International Workers Day in Europe is the 1st of May, which is a day off, but is actually a strike. From wikipedia:
| Quote: | International Workers' Day (a name used interchangeably with May Day) is a celebration of the social and economic achievements of the international labour movement. May Day commonly sees organized street demonstrations by hundreds of thousands of working people and their labour unions throughout Europe and most of the rest of the world — though, as noted below, in neither the United States nor Canada. More radical groups such as communists and anarchists are also given to widespread street protest on this day as well.
International Workers' Day is the commemoration of the Haymarket protests in Chicago in 1886; in 1889, the first congress of the Second International, meeting in Paris for the centennial of the French Revolution and the Exposition Universelle (1889), following a proposal by Raymond Lavigne, called for international demonstrations on the 1890 anniversary of the Chicago protests. These were so successful that May Day was formally recognized as an annual event at the International's second congress in 1891. The May Day Riots of 1894 and May Day Riots of 1919 occurred subsequently. In 1904, the International Socialist Conference meeting in Amsterdam called on "all Social Democratic Party organizations and trade unions of all countries to demonstrate energetically on May First for the legal establishment of the 8-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for universal peace." As the most effective way of demonstrating was by striking, the congress made it "mandatory upon the proletarian organizations of all countries to stop work on May 1, wherever it is possible without injury to the workers." |
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