Word: mayday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many ways, the police bust of The Land helped this out. For the first time, there was a sense of urgency, a sense of fear among the Mayday people. For the first time, they had no time for bickering and quarrels: decisions had to be made and plans finalized. The people got together; the police on the periphery looked too real...
...Monday morning, there was a mood of togetherness and common purpose among the demonstrators, and they rushed off to get arrested pretty joyfully. The Mayday people made the effort to talk to the police who "captured" them. I remember standing for four hours on the banks of the Potomac (forty police were guarding twenty-five of us) and laughing, staging guerrilla theater, joking with police, throwing donuts to passing motorists. We did calisthenties, and tried to have one-to-one raps with police. Most of us had discarded the V-sign around the time of the McCarthy campaign...
...police, most of whom had been working 18-hour shifts for several days, seemed to just want to go home. Mayday was over...
Thinking back about Mayday, it's one of those phenomenons about which you can make any conclusions you want, and back them all up with good evidence. Was Mayday a victory or a defeat? Well, we said we would stop the government and we failed, so I guess it was a defeat...
Before he was arrested by the FBI Monday afternoon, Rennie Davis said that of course, Mayday had been a tactical failure, but that it had won a much larger victory. For Mayday was the resparking of spirit and commitment for a generation of Americans; a regeneration that will lead eventually to radical change...