Word: mayday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weren't in Washington for Mayday, I'm not sure I can explain to you what it was like. And I'm not sure you'll want to know...
Perhaps the best way to talk about Mayday is to talk about the little isolated events that stick in my mind. Like the police busting twelve of us for obstructing traffic when we were going 25 miles an hour in a 25 zone, and then, as we're being arrested, an officer taking his Louisville Slugger and smashing the front windshield of our van, and then slashing the tires with a knife. And coming back four hours later to try to pick up the van, and finding the police had exploded popper gas inside, and watching the cops across...
...this extreme to defend itself against Americans who say No, you don't have the civil right to carry on business as usual when this business as usual means death and destruction for millions, you see just how scared they were. And their fear, their fright that Mayday might actually challenge the way power is distributed and decisions are made in this country, is the real victory of this country's first attempt at mass civil disobedience...
...assessing any significance the first week in May might have had. You could read about what happened in the Times or the Post, and find out what this police captain or this Senator had to say, but you probably knew it anyway. To appreciate the real dynamic of Mayday, you had to live...
...week before Mayday, things looked very tense. The first people to arrive on The Land, the campsite in West Potomac Park, were the angriest, and their anger was not always just concentrated against the government. There was, people say, a lot of ripping off, and the woman talked of rapes and sexism. The predominant atmosphere was fear and suspicion; anyone you didn't know had to be a government agent, or, at best, an enemy of the people. When the people in the Boston region found out I was a reporter, they told me they would only talk...