I get to the other side and take a flying leap over the same fence. A police car turns down the stret right in front of me. I put one hand on the trunk and twist around it, taking off down North Avenue, right next to the park, again.

The police are moving back in the other direction now to seal off the area I just got out of. They are all behind me. They can't leave their posts.

I stop running in a couple of blocks, and quickly take off my black leather jacket and wipe the sweat off my face and make like a pedestrian. I can't see anything and stop some people on the street to ask what street I'm on and which way to the nearest telephone. They point west.

I find a gas station, its phone, and a dime. It's an open phone, right out on the street. I dial the long-distance operator and call. The Crimson to file my news. I get David Hollander in the newsroom. "David." I say, "everything's gone wild here...

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 is point out what went wrong, but tells us there were a 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 people got ripped off, too. And that wasn'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...

We talk about whether wiping out all the parked cars is an action against the people. It is generally understood that the area we attached is where the oppresning class lives and that people who associate with this existence are putting their cars on the line by their truth by their town net 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, or people. Someone suggests that we spare Volkswagens and that sort of thing. The idea is passively accepted by the group spread around on the floor...

...[The next night, after a few more demonstrations have taken place]. 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...

Mark Rudd talks, and then someone 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) perpetuates a system. Our related social habits (thinking we are separate people, out on our own, not responsible to the poor around us), perpetuates 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 jaillike 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 halfway 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're got white-skin privilege.