alt Hacker NewsIt's May Day, which is a labour holiday everywhere except North America commemorating the Haymarket Affair when American police brutally repressed striking workers .
In North America we have Labor Day in September to distance it from the historical associations with actual organizing and police brutality.
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reaperducer • today at 5:12 PM
Still widely noted in Chicago, where the Haymarket riot took place. There's even a very well-attended reenactment every year.
North America is a big place. Generalizations always fail.
You do know that no sea/ocean has split the continent and that Mexico is still in North America right?
1st of may is festive day in Mexico.