On May 1 and 2, 1971, the Mayday Tribe staged a rock concert in D.C.’s West Potomac Park, to get people charged up for the mass civil disobedience in the streets of Washington on Monday, the third of May. This stage pass was contributed by music journalist Richard Harrington.
From Jay Belsky, Davis, Calif.: Thank you so much for putting in one place a story that has been neglectedâreally forgottenâfor so long. As a freshman at Georgetown I intended to participate in the shut-down-DC event on May 3âafter hearing Rennie Davis speak at the University the night before, reminding the audience about âgood Germansâ who stood by in the â30s and thus became complicit in Hitlerâs atrocities. To this very day, perhaps due to my Jewish ancestry, I can still recall the electricity that shot through my body upon hearing those words, convincing me I had no choice but …