These stories are excerpted from a longer work, We Wanted to Change Everything, an account of the author’s years as an activist and member of the Sojourner Truth Organization (STO) from the early 1970s to 1983. 1976 was the year when STO shifted its focus away from the factories, because we perceived a lull—a temporary pause—in the sort of workplace struggles that had defined our early years, such as the national Independent Truckers Strike and the Farah garment workers strike in El Paso. None of us realized that we were on the cusp of the massive deindustrialization that would move those industries away for good and cut the heart from a project based on workers “united, disciplined, and organized by the mechanism of capitalist labor.” (Karl Marx) We turned our attention to providing support to national liberation, especially the Puerto Rican independence movement, then engaged in militant and effervescent struggles in Chicago, which appeared to offer more promise. That is another story.