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#InternationalWorkersDay honors the immigrant organizers unfairly convicted of conspiracy for participating in a wave of worker protests known as the Great Upheaval throughout the 1800s.

But #MayDay's history reaches back farther, and its demands are yet to be fully met.

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Agricultural workers throughout Europe (pagan peasants) have celebrated #MayDay as a day too holy to work since at least the 4th century; which is when #Beltane, as some called it, was first mentioned in Irish literature.

2/13 Red, black, and green graphic reads: It was always a celebra
#MayDay was a time workers put away their tools & gathered flowers, danced, feasted, held ceremony, built fires, shared libations, and celebrated community.🌻💃🔥

Because workers weren't grinding away making profits for a boss, many May Day celebrations were criminalized.

3/13 Red, black, and green graphic reads: In 1550 an Act of Parli
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Happy Beltane! Summer begins. People believe that Beltine is a Celtic festival. But in Ireland, stone circles, like Beltany stone circle, were aligned with Beltine thousands of years before Celts appeared in European history oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2015/05/beltan… @MagicalEurope @TheAncientWorld
Beltane is one of 4 "Celtic festivals" which mark 4 "cross quarter days", the days that fall in between equinoxes and solstices. These days mark beginning of seasons in continental Europe and connected create Climatic cross. oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2016/07/two-cr… @MagicalEurope @TheAncientWorld
But stone circles in Ireland have been aligned to the cross quarter days thousands of years before Celts. Like the Grange circle, whose ceremonial entrance is aligned with 1st (2nd) of August, Lughnasadh, the beginning of Autumn. oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2014/09/grange… @MagicalEurope
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