At midnight I go back to our movement center where they are holding a secret meeting of all the 250 or so Weathermen in Chicago to discuss what has already happened and to plan their strategy until Saturday. The entire Weather Bureau is there.

There is a struggle at the back stairs. A big theological seminary student is trying to get past security down into the room. One of the guards is ready to let him have it with a club when somebody mediates. The invader says he goes to school here and he wants to use the food machines, which are in this room, where the meeting is being held. After a pause, they decide to let him get his stuff and go back upstairs. Someone apologizes to him and explains why their security is so touchy. He says he understands and buys a sandwich out of the machine.

I am thinking that he's probably a cop, but the Weather Bureau has been having a lot of trouble with the head seminary people today about staying here. So I figure it's probably just as well.

Mark Rudd talks, and then some one with red hair in a t-shirt begins a long rap about Weathermen political philosophy. I'm leaning against a post, summarizing, for my own use, Weathermen philosophy as follows:

1) Our economic structure in this country (capitalism, my father's corporations, your father's corporations) perpetuate a system. Our related social habits (thinking we are separate people. out on our own, not responsible to the poor around us. perpetuate the system. The system, whether or not it means to, keeps down the poor and the people in foreign countries where we have imperial interests.

2) Our jail-like schools make us unhappy, with the result that we become oppressors defending the system to cover up our unhappiness. Family-inspired social conventions teach us subconsciously to do absurd things like giving an inferior role to women. And the values of our competitive capitalist economy teach us to squish anyone who's weaker than us.

3) Since the system makes us oppressors, no half-way effort to change the system, which cooperates with some of the values of that system, could ever win.

4) Only the kids and the blacks will join the struggle because they're the only ones whose lives aren't already tied up in the values of the system. The white workers won't join because they've got white-skin privilege.

5) There is a world-wide people's revolution going on right now. National boundaries don't cut us off from this because when the revolution is over, there will be only one people's government.

6) The first actions of this white revolutionary youth movement in the U.S. must be of a symbolic nature because its numbers are now small. They must show that the human spirit is capable of actual fighting even in spite of the peacefulness and obedience we were taught in school.

7) Finally, if people are shown that fighting can be, and is, done, then more kids will join in.

This is close to how the Weather men in the street looks at things. I like it because it gets at the complexity of the world's guilt.

I could never act on it because I don't think any government will ever know how to run a country very well. Sartre said that revolution only changes the tyrants. "Revolution" means one 360 turn all the way around to the same place again.

I buy a sandwich, myself. and take the CTA back down to Chicago.

THE NEXT day it is raining. The jailbreaks have been called off because the repression is so heavy. The schools are all guarded by the police. Weathermen are being arrested in the streets.