Yes but breaking through 3 police lines having a slew of street marches and almost breaking into the recruiting station is! I guess your useless march around the capitol did so much more or was it the speech from the democrats "we will end this war in twenty years unless we get a surge in profit off of it (clap clap clap)" It wouldn't have mattered if congress was not in session, if we had gotten through up the steps inside, because that would be a feat all of it's own, shit did the UFPJ even try anything most of them stood on the sidewalk waving the peace sign all day and then they threw there signs in the trash and went home...nothing happened at least we took on cops and they did get violent and we did defend ourselves because standing there and doing nothing has gotten us nowhere, that is why Gahndi didn't achieve more because he did not defend himself or others.

not at all defending UFPJ. my sympathies are with the radicals. but it's important to keep things in perspective and not be too self-congratulatory. it is hard to say what the purpose of 'laying seige' upon the capitol would have been, considering that it would have been empty. targeting recruiting stations (or corporate media, for that matter) is much more effective in terms of REAL gains, as well as symbolic.

i desperately hope that radicals (anti-authoritarians/anti-capitalists) will get their shit together. we can't rely on ANSWER and UFJP to call the shots. if so, it'll always be on saturdays. we need to organize an anti-war/anti-imperialist/anti-capitalist movement based on OUR terms.
it did not seem to me that SDS really had its shit together leading up to this protest. there was poor communication between chapters, and the general call-out was disappointingly vague. 150 radicals, in terms of numbers in the street, is far too low.