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freshwest

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22. Here was the day I was there:

Thu Sep 12, 2013, 11:49 PM

Sep 2013

200,000 at Washington Peace march (circa 1971 John Kerry speaks and John Denver sings)

We were only teargassed at the end. My union brethren were ready with canteens of water and bandanas. There were few arrests among our group. We were unable to stay for the May Day protests but some did and 35.000 were arrested in 3 days:

The 1971 May Day Protests were a series of large-scale civil disobedience actions in Washington, D.C., in protest against the Vietnam War. These began on May Day of that year, continued with similar intensity into the morning of the third day, then rapidly diminished through several following days. Most members of the Nixon Administration[who?] would come to view the events as damaging, because the government's response led to mass arrests and were perceived as violating rights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_May_Day_Protests

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Here was the day I was there: freshwest Sep 2013 #22

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