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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,499 posts) Mon Jun 8, 2020, 10:11 AM Jun 2020

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"A remarkable training film produced by the D.C. police department captured the events of May 1971." (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2020 OP

Kick very interesting contrast! burrowowl Jun 2020 #1

Thanks - and some more sources TomVilmer Jun 2020 #2

Damn! BigOleDummy Jun 2020 #3

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1. Kick very interesting contrast!

Mon Jun 8, 2020, 11:24 AM

Jun 2020

(1,832 posts)

2. Thanks - and some more sources

Mon Jun 8, 2020, 03:20 PM

Jun 2020

The most influential large-scale political action of the ’60s was actually in 1971, and you’ve never heard of it. It was called the Mayday action, and it provides invaluable lessons for today.
https://longreads.com/2017/01/20/in-1971-the-people-didnt-just-march-on-washington-they-shut-it-down/

Source documents about the 1971 action, including newspaper reports, activist recollections and a full reprint of the action’s official tactical manual (together with a newspaper article noting how much Pentagon staffers were impressed by its quality). The zine ends with a series of texts chronicling the downfall of the peace movement in general — following the general trajectory that the movement crashed and burned after 1971 into drugs, sex and religious cults.
https://ia601509.us.archive.org/7/items/mayday-1971-or-how-to-lose-street-battles-and-alienate-people/mayday-1971-or-how-to-lose-street-battles-and-alienate-people.pdf

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3. Damn!

Mon Jun 8, 2020, 06:38 PM

Jun 2020

I remember this..........