Mat got into the Berkeley spirit and joined a protest on Thursday! It was a peace vigil, initiated by the Quakers of San Francisco, that has taken place every week since October 2001.
In true Quaker style the protest finished with an invitation to lunch, where he got chatting with some radical environmentalists from LA who had refused to turn their air conditioning on all summer despite temperatures in the mid-30Cs. He didn't find out whether they'd flown to SF to attend the demo...
Mat's still working on the beard.