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.