Peace Corps Invade Arlington, or At Least Holding a Knitting Circle About It

What can Mt. Pleasant do as the US location with the world's most concentrated population of Peace Corp Volunteers??

Organize. Or at least talk about organizing. Word at 80s night at Marx Cafe is that dozens of PC Vols. are convening at an undisclosed location--perhaps the burned out building, that newest of Mt. P. landmarks--to discuss the possibility of retaliating on VA rednecks for raiding bodegas just a few days ago. PC-ers are notorious for talking a good game, but the recent riots infuriated them no end, because, they said, it was evidence of anti-Salvadorian bias in the city. Mt P. is known for its Salvadorian population, and since they're getting ready for the Latino-Mt P festival this weekend, PC-ers took on the onus of raising the roof for them. Justly Carmichael, a local resident and bike messenger told me, "This is ridiculous. Five guys come in and rob one of our stores and the Po-Po won't do anything because they don't want to make waves? DC Racism at it's finest."

I've also heard other rumors that some PC-ers want to go use the riot-back to scope out Arlington locations for so-called hidden gardens. Some of these hippies, ascribing to the new pitch to take back the land Virginia stole from DC in the nineteenth century, want to start to plant secret gardens and start growing DC it's own crop of food. It sounds a little hokey to me, but then again, some of these guys did do agriculture in Guatemala. What will Arlington-grown food taste like??? My guess, a pair of gap jeans from the late 90s.