An email excerpt:
Jackie: Lots of successful campaigns (most, I’d venture to say) were preceded by many failures or only partial successes. Also, how are we defining these? Do we get active members from them? Do we build up an organizer? Do we learn some good tactics? Do we raise class consciousness? All are valid as [...]
Today I almost got run over by a car.
I’m in a morning information picket at a suburb campus of the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. The day started rather early at 0540, but it sounds like I got more sleep than most of the other picketers. Things start off a bit late, and there is some [...]
Start of the week, I get my stuff together and ride my bike to the train station and take the train into Barcelona. Today is determined bike riding day. When I get to Passeig de Gracia station in Barcelona I start biking north.
And bike straight into a hill. See my objective is Parc Guinardo which [...]
The train ride from Zaragoza to Barcelona is surprisingly eventful. As I’m racing to the elevator to get my bike on the train (having timed things closely yet again), I run into another fellow with a bike and panniers. I go down first and get my bike on board and then help him get his [...]
Storm clouds over Madrid make me glad I’m wearing my biking rain pants. The train ride is pretty, but its clear that the weather report on the region was accurate.
But when I get to Zaragoza it is a beautiful day! No couchsurfers have gotten back to me so I head to the hostal I [...]
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