Coleen and Mark in Ventura

Me, Missy and her boyfriend in Bakersfield

Kwaku talking to Aus Rotten  inside the Panther Headquaters.  Kwaku was a  member of L.A. Black Panthers in the 70's.  Now he is a lawyer and chairman of NPVM.

South-Central L.A. with Kwaku Duren

Front of the Coaliton Against Police Abuse / Community In Support of the Gang Truce
Office with Bilal Ali.

Bilal showing us around

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December 27, 1998

Today we finally went to the Anarchist book store Bound Together.   I had stacks of Black Panther news papers from L.A. and they took them on consignment.  I bought a book there and a speech cassette.Later on we all went to the Epicenter.  Epicenter is a voluntary non-profit punk record shop.  It was good to see Lance (ex-Cringer) from the J Church.  He used to be my pen pal.

Then we went to the Long Haul info shop to have a dinner.  Later on we decided that we were still hungry and went for a 2nd dinner at an Ethiopian restaurant and had vegan food.  A couple of us were broke so we all shared.  You have to use your hands to eat instead of a fork or a spoon.  The
waitress gave us a Happy New Years card.  I found out that in S.F. we lost Corey and Fly.  They haven't called.

December 28th, 1998

I woke up at Gidgets sisters house.  Jen wanted to talk to me outside and it was still very early in the morning.  She was very angry about something that happened last night.  She explained to me what happened and asked me if she should just leave the tour.  I told her she should and gave her a hug.  So Resist and Exist didn't finish the tour and ended up breaking apart.

Couple Days later

I drove to Bakersfield from Ventura and met up with Aus Rotten.  At the show 3 rockabilly looking guys were picking fights with young kids.  When they took their shirts off they had skinhead tattoo's.  After the show they were beating up a kid outside so Aus Rotten beat those rockabilly skinheads up and knocked one guy to the ground.  It was crazy.  I decided to tag along with them to PCH, Orange County and San Diego.  When they came to Los Angeles I showed them around. I had a great time with Richard, Neil,
Carolyn, Aus Rotten and Marck Bruback.

I left a lot of stuff out because I just stopped writing at some point.