Word: mayday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Large questions about the future of the antiwar movement would be answered this week as the Mayday demonstrators, numbering up to 30,000, attempt an exercise in "nonviolent civil disobedience" to shut down the Federal Government for two days by blocking nine key bridges and intersections in Washington during rush hours...
...editors of the George Washington University Hatchet had only harsh words of welcome for the Mayday forces. "The 'give peace a chance' gang had their day last week and now they are gone," said a Hatchet editorial entitled "Forget It." "A new crowd is in town now . . . They have plans that we find disturbing, self-defeating and absurd...
Addressing the Mayday coalition, the paper advised: "After you get finished making what you think is a revolution by playing in the traffic, and if you happen to avoid arrest, don't come back here crying 'repression!' and try to stir up Act Two of your kind of revolution. Some trashing and some attempts at stirring up the campus proletariat have gotten to be routine around here and they don't impress anybody. The activities of last week made up a legitimate and resounding demand for an immediate end to America's latest bungling overseas...
...With its latticework of bridges, boulevards and traffic circles, Washington, D.C., is a vulnerable target, and Mayday Organizer Rennie Davis and his radicals have had the city squarely in their sights for a long time. Determined to bring the Government to a halt for at least one day, they are bent on carrying out a meticulous plan that is a model of guerrilla ingenuity. The theme: stop the blood and you stop the heart. Stop the heart and the "monster"-the war machine-dies. The means: block the city's bridges and roads with thousands of protesters...
Davis told reporters yesterday that Mayday leaders would meet this weekend to decide the format for a national antiwar conference "some time in the next several weeks." The conference, which will probably take place in Milwaukee, Wise, will make plans for continued resistance against the government until the war is over, Davis said...