I took a CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) train up to the movement center, where I'm staying. I am amazed to find that most people made it back OK. They say they only knew of about six or eight who got captured. and I'm the 53rd to return. I tell them about the two who were with me and got busted, but I can't remember their names. I don't think they ever told me. The legal service will take care of them.

The Weathermen leadership for this regional center is discussing how to organize things from now on while most people are crashing in the main room. which is a windowless volleyball court of the theological seminary where we're staying. To get in this room I pass a security check, which OK's my Weathermen ID card and frisks me for weapons I might be carrying. I go to sleep at 2:00.

At 4:00 one of the girls from the leadership comes in and throws on the lights all over the room. and yells, "Everybody up and do thirty jumping-jacks. We're going to have a meeting."

I roll over in agony and drool into the wall. "I could just vomit." Most people get up and are ready to jump. when it is decided to put the whole thing off until the morning because it's important for us to rest.

MORNING comes at 6:30 when the lights are turned on again, this time for good. People get up from where they've been sleeping, and collapse on the floor in a rough circle around the leadership. I pull on my pants and shiver, leaning against the wall with my blankets wrapped around my legs.

Girls make up much of the leadership in our center. And one of them is giving us an initial analysis of the

last night's events. She wants to point out what went wrong, but tells us there were a lot of good things about it. too.

"There was a lot of smashing windows and hitting rich people's property and doing a lot of out a-sight stuff. But," she says," a lot of our people got ripped off. too. And that isn't good."

People make the criticism that we should have fought the police more. They say that people would fight back when they were attacked, but that often groups would change their direction to avoid only four or five policemen when we could have overwhelmed them instead.

There is a lot of talk about what methods the police used-when they fired guns, what they were shooting, how they moved in the plainclothes cops. and the way they had a hard time responding to the mobile tactics.

Someone criticizes the fact that hardly anyone knew where the announced goal of the march, the judge's place, was. People were unfamiliar with the city, he said, and they wound up heading away from it because the objective wasn't announced til the end of the speeches.

Someone stresses the importance of sticking with your affinity group. It is pointed out that those people who got ripped off by the pigs were mostly people who weren't with their group. Someone presents the problem that, when he would stop to pick up some rocks and wipe out some windows, he would get split from his group because they would keep moving. He is answered that it is more important that he stick with his group so they can fight as a unit.

We talk about whether wiping out all the parked cars is an action against the people. It is generally understood that the area we attacked is where the oppressing class lives. and that people who associate with this existence are putting their cars on the line by their own act of will. It is, then, more or less these people's fault if their car is there. The Weathermen believe, after all, that there can be no spectators in the revolution-you're either part of it, or you are automatically acting against it. I am thinking that they are probably right, but, at the same time, they are demanding an awful lot, in fact, too much, of people. Someone suggests that we spare Volkswagens and that sort of thing. The idea is passively accepted by the group spread around the floor.

Before we break up this meeting into several smaller ones for the regional areas, the girl announces the actions planned for today. They have already been described on the big Weatherman poster as follows:

" The women's militia will strike the Armed Forces Induction Center in the morning and show the strength of a women's fighting force. Meet at the Logan Statue (across from the Hilton Hotel, Balboa and Michigan) in Grant Park, at 9:30 a.m.