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...Washington to take another try at making a protest to end the war. The group was striking in no way except size: it was one of the smallest nationally publicized antiwar protests to date. Almost all of the demonstrators were familiar with Washington and militant protest. They talked of Mayday, the Pentagon, Chicago, and hoped that, despite their small number, this protest, dubbed the Nixon Eviction, would become something to talk about later...
Angela Davis, the Berrigan Brothers, Black Panthers, Mayday arrests. William Kunstler, the Chicago Seven, Wire-tapping are all Supreme Court subjects for determination and clarification. An announced advisary to these people and to the principles for which they stand, should not be approved by the U.S. Senate to be seated on our Supreme Court. Many thousands of Americans are more qualified...
...direct comparisons between then and now are inescapable. The Palmer raids, in which thousands of aliens were rounded up in major American cities and deported en masse to Europe, have been compared to the McCarthy purges of the 1950's or the mass, indiscriminate arrests during the Washington Mayday demonstrations in 1971. Many would contend that the system of justice that convicted Sacco and Vanzetti lives on in the trials of the Rosenbergs, the Chicago Eight and Angela Davis...
PCPJ--which also sponsored the Mayday protest here last spring in which 13,000 people were arrested--said in a news release Sunday that they have no intention of disrupting traffic or creating situations which could lead to violent clashes between police and protestors...
Although the Metropolitan Police say they expect tomorrow's activities to be "nothing like Mayday," 2000 members of the D.C. national guard have been called up for training exercises at the D.C. Armory and 5100 Metropolitan Police have been place on alert status, with days off and leaves cancelled...