I have a possibly unfair anti-Starhawk bias. I was in jail with her once. At any given time there were at least three girls giving her a massage. She led chants/dance things which, fine, but me and my friends were both treated disdainfully by her acolytes for not participating and told that the stuff we were doing to keep our spirits up (making up musical numbers about our stupid situation) was messing up their vibe and we had to stop. This was the time in jail when I found myself sympathizing more with the guards than many of my fellow arrestees, who were speechifying to the guards about bow fucked up it was that there were no vegan sandwiches and coming up to me crying about how "[they were] not supposed to be here!" meaning in jail. Unlike the other, bad people in jail.

We all were released without charges, which we were probably gonna no matter what given the era and that it was a mass pre-emptive arrest that had turned into a huge clusterfuck given 1. the complete lack of any illegal activity 2. the complete lack of anything that could be twisted into "evidence" of illegal activity 3. the fact that a bunch of journalists and random passers-by were swept up in the arrest. However, Starhawk reportedly took credit for our good fortune, believing her chanting and dancing had freed us, which reportedly led Cindy Milstein (also there, though not held with me) to nearly blow a gasket. And that is my anarchist gossip contribution for today.