Sympathizers Deliver Food to Detention Camp: Mayday 1971
Under the watchful eye of the National Guard and police, sympathizers deliver food to those swept up in mass arrests at the makeshift detention facility at a practice field near RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. on May 3, 1971.
At a press conference Rennie Davis mentioned the “American prisoner of war camp in Washington.”
“Reporters raced to RFK Memorial Stadium and there, to their astonishment, they saw a thousand people gathered behind wire fences, on an open field, where in happier time, the Redskins scrimmage.”
“They were hungry, angry and cold. They jeered when the police drove off sympathetic onlookers from an adjoining hill. ‘You are prisoners of war,’ they cried.”—The Evening Star 5/4/1971.
The Mayday Tribe, a loose knit group of individuals, collectives and affinity groups, organized an attempt to shut down the U.S. government in Washington, D.C. in protest of the continued war in Indochina May 3-5, 1971 through the use of non violence civil disobedience.
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Photo by Walter Oates. Courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.
Sympathizers Deliver Food to Detention Camp: Mayday 1971
Under the watchful eye of the National Guard and police, sympathizers deliver food to those swept up in mass arrests at the makeshift detention facility at a practice field near RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. on May 3, 1971.
At a press conference Rennie Davis mentioned the “American prisoner of war camp in Washington.”
“Reporters raced to RFK Memorial Stadium and there, to their astonishment, they saw a thousand people gathered behind wire fences, on an open field, where in happier time, the Redskins scrimmage.”
“They were hungry, angry and cold. They jeered when the police drove off sympathetic onlookers from an adjoining hill. ‘You are prisoners of war,’ they cried.”—The Evening Star 5/4/1971.
The Mayday Tribe, a loose knit group of individuals, collectives and affinity groups, organized an attempt to shut down the U.S. government in Washington, D.C. in protest of the continued war in Indochina May 3-5, 1971 through the use of non violence civil disobedience.
For more information and additional images, see
May 1: flic.kr/s/aHsk5GV1JM
May 2: flic.kr/s/aHsk5CKtKq
May 3: flic.kr/s/aHsk5bjYqk
May 4: flic.kr/s/aHsk64GugT
May 5: flic.kr/s/aHsk8e3sU3
Photo by Walter Oates. Courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.