PROTEST: Order of Battle

PROTEST Order of Battle

With its latticework of bridges, boulevards and traffic circles, Washington, D.C., is a vulnerable target, and Mayday Organizer Rennie Davis and his radicals have had the city squarely in their sights for a long time. Determined to bring the Government to a halt for at least one day, they are bent on carrying out a meticulous plan that is a model of guerrilla ingenuity. The theme: stop the blood and you stop the heart. Stop the heart and the "monster"—the war machine—dies. The means: block the city's bridges and roads with thousands of protesters.

The idea of shutting...

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