A New (old) Holiday

May Day!!!!

Mayday, mayday, the system is going down!!! And, it's about FUCKING time!!!

May 1st, from now on! Spread the word!!!!!

Celebrate your humanity, and your fellow beautiful human beings, in their newfound freedom, their newfound life, a life of Anarchy!

The following is a list of suggestions that can be rearranged to suit you, added to, or completely ignore for your May Day celebrations.

1) Start at midnight. Better yet, start preparations the day before! Make sure that you can be an uninhibited, benevolent, and absolutely free human being for at least 24 hours: think of it as a respite from slavery. :)

2) Begin the night by stealing a flag. Yes: steal it. It wouldn't be a very decent thing to contribute time and resources to somebody so you can lawfully obtain a flag, would it? Steal a flag of your former nationality. Each liberated being should be represented. Now steal a bunchload of fabric dye: black... Pitch. Fucking. Black. If you can make it yourself, even better!!!!! Get a large enough container to dye your flag in, and usurp the future of your nation symbolically, as will one day happen when humanity is liberated from its tools. It takes a long time to dye things, so you may want to take turns. Make it an activity for the group, not a chore, and enjoy the process.

3) Find a place in nature, or created by your own hands, to celebrate the day. Wage-slave labor and blood, corporate industrial facilities, or government institutions are no fun, and their existence is an affront to man. Enjoy life in the midst of life. Or go somewhere you're not supposed to be, and claim the territory for your own, liberating the place made from sweat and tears from the slavemasters themselves.

4) Ditch the radios and televisions! Sing songs made by people you know and love; watch life play itself out not through a screen, but right next to you! Sing, dance, play music, etc. Even better: take the time to create a masterpiece with your friends right there! Get rid of the feelings of embarassment that society and religion have caused you to feel: you fucking rock! I'm telling you!

5) Use this time to get to know everybody: this is the anarchist community, or if somebody hasn't joined the free yet, they hopefully soon will. This is a great time to network. Better still, this is a great time to sit everybody down, plan an impromtu low-medium risk guerilla direct action and execute it! Yay for more group activities!

6) Food. What is a 24+ hour festival without food? It's probably a malnourished, fatigued, hunger-pang ridden festival, that's what! Provide food for your festival: potluck style!!! Of course, since any good anarchist refuses to promote the subjugation of any form of sentient life, vegan/vegetarian all the way! Respect your life and the life of other creatures. Of course, respect plant life to, but take them for what they are.

7) Fire. Lots of fire. Get a fire going all day long. Burn remnants of a once-enslaved you, burn the bounty of nature that has come to a natural end, burn the safe-to-breath things that the fires of industry created. Recycle what you can, burn what deserves to be burnt, but realize that heat needs to be obtained somehow. If you are very environmentally conscious, make sure that if you have a fire, you are okay with how you've created it.

8) Make some art. For the kiddies, maybe have a workshop or arts-and-crafts area? Give them a bunch of "these can't hurt you" supplies of any and every sort and see what comes up! Kids can be amazingly creative sometimes.

9) Make some art of your own too! Find a wall and let some spraypaint and stencil artists work their magic, bring some frames and canvas for your painters, bring everything you might need and then some: you never know! Make it into another group project! Human interaction is amazing.

10) Post a couple of voluntary lookouts, maintain a perimeter, deter surveillance. People don't like freedom lovers for some reason....


Have any other suggestions or ideas? Let me know: I'd love to post them.