2025 Life Logs, Day 121: May Day or Mayday
Date: Thursday, May 1, 2025
Weather: Sunny and Windy; High Temp 55, Low 47 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
Today Robert Reich posted, “May Day has two meanings, both of which are directly applicable to today. It commemorates the solidarity of the labor movement (139 years ago today, workers gathered in the streets of Chicago to demand an eight-hour day).
“Mayday!” is also a distress signal used by pilots to indicate imminent danger or a life-threatening emergency (derived from the French phrase “m’aider,” meaning “help me”).
That about sums it up: Our solidarity is necessary to overcome the imminent dangers we now face — all from Donald J. Trump.”
I celebrated May Day/Mayday! By attending a May Day Strong rally to support American workers up by the Bourne Bridge. Most of the people around me were my age, but the person right next to me was a young man from Plymouth. I am always so happy to see young people at these rallies, and I loved his sign saying that billionaires are parasites.
