Word: mayday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unprecedented move yesterday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee heard testimony on the Indochina War from five representatives of the Mayday Collective, an organized arm of the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice (PCPJ...
Other testimony assailed the role of the Senate Committee in treating the issue of the war. Speaking in defense of the Mayday demonstrations, Marshall said. "We have been forced to take matters into our own hands and do your job for you because you are irresponsible. . . The real horror story is not in Vietnam but in the Senate. You talk a good game but you don't do much about...
...Large-scale civil disobedience and disruption. The most radical demonstrators assume control of the demonstrations on May 1. Mayday, a group whose most visible leader is Chicago Seven Defendant Rennie Davis, will open the final week with a "political Woodstock" rock festival on the grounds of the Washington Monument. The following day, a religious service will feature such disparate speakers as the Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Jane Fonda. Then the tactics escalate: May 3 and 4, Mayday demonstrators will attempt to choke off traffic on the highways leading to the Pentagon, stall cars at key intersections and bridges leading into...
...decided to spend Spring break this way? What did we think we could accomplish? Why not wait until April 24 or Mayday to join mass protests...
Operating out of the same building, NPAC and the more militant MAYDAY tribes which will be staging spontaneous civil disobedience throughout Washington next week have found a comfortable coexistence in promoting each other's protests...