Car Set Afire on GW Parkway in Va: Mayday 1971

Protestors set fire to an automobile they abandoned in an attempt to block the George Washington Parkway near Key Bridge in Arlington, Virginia on May 3, 1971.

 

Bridges and approaches to them were key targets of Mayday demonstrators attempting to shut down the government in opposition to the Vietnam War.

 

“This thing was fantastically successful, but if we had strong regional structure it would make it really terrible for the government.”—Unidentified Mayday spokesperson, The Evening Star, 5/5/1971.

 

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 Pete Schmick. Courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.

 

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