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Former ’60s Activist Bill Ayers Among May Day Protesters
ABC News ^ | May 1, 2012 | Richard Esposito

Posted on 05/01/2012 9:50:45 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Occupy protesters have amped up May Day labor demonstrations across the country with a wide range of partnering organizations and individuals. Former 60s anti-war activist William “Bill” Ayers is among those protesting in Chicago on Tuesday.

He said he planned to participate in the May Day demonstration at Union Park in Chicago and the subsequent march.

“We’ll march right past the scene of the Haymarket massacre,” Ayers said of the protest in favor of an eight-hour work day in 1886 that was bombed. ”There used to be a big statute in tribute to police power but it was taken down. Now there’s a wonderful piece of public art celebrating the movement for labor rights and the anarchists’ movement.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billayers; communists; mayday; ows

1 posted on 05/01/2012 9:50:52 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I wonder if Obama will join his friends..Ayers has come out in the day light since he knows nothing will happen to his sorry ass..

Obama’s Communist Grandparent and Mama Ann is so proud of their little half breed Communist..

2 posted on 05/01/2012 9:57:21 AM PDT by PLD (It is time the freeloaders leave the white house and go back to the hell hole where they came from..)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Better check any government building nearby for bombs.Thouroghly check them.What was it he said outside that courthouse all those years ago? "Guilty as hell,free as a bird".And let's not forget the front page of the 9/11/2001 edition of the NY Times..."I don't regret having planted bombs..I feel we didn't do enough".
3 posted on 05/01/2012 9:58:34 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Unlike Mrs Obama,I've Been Proud Of This Country My *Entire* Life!)
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To: Gay State Conservative
ABC calls him an “anti-war activist”. How about anti-liberty and anti-free market terrorist.
4 posted on 05/01/2012 10:11:32 AM PDT by uncommonsense (Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)
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To: uncommonsense

I think the media’s portrayal of Ayers backfires cause a lot of folks can look him up to know the truth.


5 posted on 05/01/2012 10:13:40 AM PDT by Republican1795.
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Hope no harm comesto him amazed he’s still walking around


6 posted on 05/01/2012 10:20:34 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (The best way to punish a - country is let professors run it. Fredrick the Great p/p)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

No story regarding Ayers or his sow Dohrn is COMPLETE without mentioning their biggest claim to fame which is affiliation with President O. But ABC simply could not make that connection here. No no no. Just portray him as a doddering freelance flake, un-relevant to anything since 1970.


7 posted on 05/01/2012 10:21:26 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Sneaking out in the daylight these days. I’m going to laugh when karma bites him.


8 posted on 05/01/2012 10:27:50 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’m old enough to remember the 60’s demonstrations. The Left has learned nothing from the intervening decades.

The major difference between the 60’s and today is that the demonstrators have friends in the White House and other parts of the Democratic Party.

I’d like to see some moderate Democrats stand up to their own party and say that what the Democrats and the Occupiers are doing is unprincipled and reprehensible.


9 posted on 05/01/2012 11:20:55 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Socialism isn't going to work this time, either.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
His homies tried to blow up a bridge.

5 Arrested For Allegedly Trying To Blow Up Ohio Bridge

10 posted on 05/01/2012 12:29:29 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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Former 60s anti-war activist William “Bill” Ayers

Is "anti-war activist" the current fashionable euphemism for "domestic terrorist"? It'd be helpful to know.

11 posted on 05/01/2012 12:41:48 PM PDT by RansomOttawa (tm)
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