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POPEYE = 24 love for a brother they thought was being treated unfairly. He wis most powerre fully effected by the forces he had set in motion and would never again be the same. After the revocation henring, as he walked out of San Quentin into the rain and the arms of his comrndes who had stood in it all day, the excitement caused one brother to have a seizure. Ignoring the cheers of the crowd, Pop- eye went directly to him and, squatting in the rain, held him in his arna. For Popeye, it was the beginning of a-new life. flow there was a revolution to think about and a most revolutionary woman, Pat Singer. Pat” had done two yenrs in Ohio on a 5 to 20 for possession of a small amount of grass and, then, a year in Washington D.C. on parole. Her father died while she was doing time, leaving her with no family but a brother and some cousins. late in 1973, she came to the Bay Area, looking for something to do that would make life interesting. Attracted to the prison movement, she drifted into Popeye's orbit. She was junt what he had been lookiny for, an articulate woman ex-con who was willing to speak, and they were soon sharing the task of telling aud- ' gencen what it was like in the joint. Popeye no longer had the time for hust- ling; benting the heroin charge had become a full time job. Shortly after the 1 vietory at San wuentin, they were living together. The UPU had never amounted to much; Popeye dominated it and it was just one of hig many hustles. He gave a lot of speeches but no one did much real work. Pat had energy. Sally: “I really think it was Pat Singer. TI hate to be sex- : ist but I think she deserves much more credit than he docs. He was totally untopether on the whole revolution. Only when she came in and started working | with the UPU did it finally develop a certain continuity... a certain something | that it never had before... She got work done! They put together a film serien; t heard her speak on the radio; it was good! I think she hid a atabilizing in- 6% c ie ‘ SAS ~ as aba i gee TEER Ma iiiaghitigy Brea eM ee GE