May Day Parade!
May. 5th, 2019 06:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silversandbeaToday was the May Day Parade in Minneapolis, which combines the socialist holiday, the Scandinavian celebration of nature holiday, various other cultures and Indigenous groups that live in the area*, and puppets.
It's one of my favorite things about Minneapolis, and this year might be its last run by Heart of the Beast, so I made a point of coming out this year. So did a lot of other people - I feel like there were about twice the number of people around the parade route as normal, and this has never been a sparsely attended event. My pictures aren't great this year - there were a good number of people in front of me, but I did manage to get a good number of halfway decent ones. You can click here (or on the picture) to view them all:
Wedge Live also got a few good videos, including one of the entire Southside Battle Train (it's eight 'cars' long, pulled with the help of 100 people, including a ferris wheel, a skate park, and I think two grills. Also, technically not part of the parade, they just show up at the end) and then give away all of the meat they grill while in the parade.
*I feel like I should mention that any references to AIM are referring to the American Indian Movement, and not the White Nationalist movement that has managed to co-opt the abbreviation. Because of course they did.
Even ignoring the May Day parade, Minneapolis still does more for the 'celebration of nature' May Day than any other US city I've been in, though it's mostly in the form of occasionally happening upon Morris dancers. There are other socialist-specific May Day events
It's one of my favorite things about Minneapolis, and this year might be its last run by Heart of the Beast, so I made a point of coming out this year. So did a lot of other people - I feel like there were about twice the number of people around the parade route as normal, and this has never been a sparsely attended event. My pictures aren't great this year - there were a good number of people in front of me, but I did manage to get a good number of halfway decent ones. You can click here (or on the picture) to view them all:
Wedge Live also got a few good videos, including one of the entire Southside Battle Train (it's eight 'cars' long, pulled with the help of 100 people, including a ferris wheel, a skate park, and I think two grills. Also, technically not part of the parade, they just show up at the end) and then give away all of the meat they grill while in the parade.
*I feel like I should mention that any references to AIM are referring to the American Indian Movement, and not the White Nationalist movement that has managed to co-opt the abbreviation. Because of course they did.
Even ignoring the May Day parade, Minneapolis still does more for the 'celebration of nature' May Day than any other US city I've been in, though it's mostly in the form of occasionally happening upon Morris dancers. There are other socialist-specific May Day events
