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They aim to do more than just protest.

They aim to shut the city down.

Mayday, 1971, was a deliberately non-top-down protest against the Vietnam War, organized out

of Georgetown University, but involving national groups, groups who by this point, in the

student anti-war movement in 1971, you had 67, 68, 69, 70, a lot of years there for people

to start to bitter, bigger, and split up, didn't always agree.

Too much dissension between who would be leading to have one leader.

Instead, Mayday, 1971 was based on a simple idea, and posters at the time which were

plentiful from different sources, and posters at the time expressed it, if they will not

stop the war, we will stop the government.

On Friday, Mayday leaders unveiled a new strategy at the Department of Justice.

Demonstrators moved in in waves to block entrances.

The manual instructed units of 10 to 25 people to sit down and pass the pipe and play music

until arrested.

It was also part of a coordinated campaign that would involve a rock concert, smaller

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