Seattle, finally

[Michael Perelman]

Were you there?  I had actually returned to Berkeley at the time of the
conflagration.  I led the march to the pier.  When the police stopped us, I told the
owner of the restaurant on the pier, George -- I don't remember his last name --
that my father-in-law was an Italian chef, which he was, and it we wanted to visit
his restaurant.  He started swearing about hippies and stuff, but I totally really
wanted to go to the restaurant and mentioned some Italian dishes and he let us go
ahead through the police line.

The Santa Barbara police seem very nervous and ready to over react.  Once we were on
the pier, they couldn't remove us because we had permission to enter.  We didn't
know that an expected to be arrested.

The next day there was a big ruckus on-campus -- bus loads of police and the like.
That night, the bank burned.  Lots of other stuff happened during the previous two
days.  For example, I told Jesse Unruh in front of the New York Times reporter that
I heard that some people wanted to burn the pier down.  I asked for his advice and
he said that arson was bad, but he would support us sit in.  Later, I told everybody
that we were acting in Jesse's name.  I found that hilarious.  When I went back to
try to get him to join us, I couldn't find him.

Michael Hoover wrote:


> > A paper down there blamed me for inciting the whole thing.
> >
> > Michael Hoover wrote:
> > > Doug Henwood:
> > > Slogan of the day: "Capitalism? No thanks!/We will burn your fucking banks!"
> > >
> > > shades of the Isla Vista branch of Bank of America, eh?   Michael Hoover
> > --
> > Michael Perelman
>
> Gee, were you the person who, when asked why the bank, said: 'It was the
> biggest capitalist thing around' (or words to that effect)... Michael Hoover

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Chico, CA 95929
530-898-5321
fax 530-898-5901