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Many thanks to
our Stage Sponsor:
Hennepin County Medical Center

The MayDay Parade & Festival is presented with the assistance of the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board.

35th Anniversary of MayDay - May 3, 2009

Our Common Treasury - Dig It

HOBT’s MayDay Parade, Ceremony, and Festival has always been rooted in two important traditional celebrations—the celebration of the Green Root of Earth’s green energy rising in Spring, and the Red Root of human work energy rising from mind, heart and hand.

Our MayDay 2009 theme celebrated the merging of the red and green energies of the world. We celebrated the great merging of the human social justice movements with the environmental movements to remember humans as responsible relatives of the earth.

As we experience the failure of our economic systems built on debt, consumer waste, the theft and sickening of earth resources, we gathered to rebuild an economic system that protects and sustains our Earth as a “Common Treasury for All.”

Photos by Danny Diamond

Photos by Mark Wojahn