A Chance Meeting



The former college activists as professional activists.

Dave and I met at this picket of Hornblower Cruises - the boats that take tourists to and from Alcatraz. I had planned to go, and he was in town for a wedding and stopped to see what all the commotion was about. He is a union organizer himself after all.

Back at the University of Texas we spent the night together in the UT Tower during a sleepless sit in and we made UC Regent Ward Connerly's visit to UT a disastrous affair. Dave was even featured on a John Stossel special about the grave threat to free speech rights on college campuses because of the Connerly protest. True we did heckle Ward (or as Dave would say "Wardell"), but somehow at the end of the day Connerly and Stossel still had a slightly more powerful voice than any of the affirmative action activists back then.

Oh yeah, we also went to Millions for Mumia together - the bus ride to Philly and back from Houston was about a day longer than the amount of time we spent in Philly. Hey Mumia's still alive!