https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/establish-lunar-new-year-national-holiday-give-it-same-importance-and-weight-other-cultural-holidays/0fpSLqvZ

This is a website from the White House where you can vote for adding the Chinese Lunar New Year as a national holiday of the United States. Please vote before Feb14th, there will be a holiday celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year in January or February every year. The holiday should be at least one day off, vote for your own liberty!

签名2/14日截止。

我已经去签名了。说来有趣，我在美国同事中几乎年年叨叨这个，他们大致都持乐观其成的态度。一个也是农历新年的确是一个很大的地区节日，许多亚洲国家都过；美国人也都知道这个节日。另一个也是乐见增加一个从新年到国殇日（五月底）之间的正式联邦假日。当然政府部门员工有多一些的假日，像马丁路德金生日什么的，但是私人公司不休，新年一过要眼巴巴等五个月才能再有一个节假日。所以从文化、到交融和谐到休假等方面说，把农历新年设为美国假日都很积极。

祝朋友们春节快乐，蛇年吉祥如意！