Do you know any of the history of the Symbionese Liberation Army? Called the SLA.
I had been working at Glide Memorial Methodist Church for several years when the SLA appeared in the media. I had heard rumors on the street that an organization was planning to kidnap a wealthy heiress. The two I knew of at the time were Patty Hearst and Eileen Rockefeller. I phoned them both to let them know about the rumor. They both told me they would ignore it.
After Patty was kidnapped along with her boyfriend, Glide became involved in the negotiations between the leader of the SLA, Cinque, who was in prison and Patty Hearst's father Randy. The SLA made increasing demands, including feeding thousands of poor people, which Glide arranged and Randy paid for. The issue finally disappeared when Patty was freed and the rest of the members were burned in a house that was in a shoot out.
There is very little to comment on about my experience. Armed gangs with a half-baked revolutionary ideology are easily defeated if they lack military skill. Feeding the poor in San Francisco did not make them the heroes of the NYTimes and New Yorker, which is what you need to succeed. Like their incompetent hero, Che Guevara, they were surrounded and slaughtered.