Back in '84, after a big rally at Concord Naval Weapons Station (I'd est. about 3,000, Vietnam vet S. Brian Willson had had his legs shorn off by a railroad car the week before) and Jesse Jackson had left, about 300 or so of us, mostly anarchists, Xtian pacifists and the Sisters of Perputual Indulgence, with crowbars and big hammers pounded away at the railroad tracks that took arms and munitions to El Salvador. Less than a week later the tracks were fixed.
I wonder if the East Bay and Santa Cruz anarchist scenes could mobilize even a third of that now to do the same.
-- Michael Pugliese