The Bay Area CISPES chapter had radically politicized a core of 3000-4000 activists in a San Francisco ballot initiative. During the drive for the ballot initiative, Henry Kissinger was speaking at the San Francisco Hilton, and CISPES organized their thousands of democrat-identified ballot activists to attend. Riot police surrounded and corralled the protest, blatantly attacking the demonstrators. This served to radicalize all of those activists, who San Francisco CISPES continued to incorporate and organize.
