The four wore black hooded robes and the classic protesters’ Guy Fawkes mask made famous in V for Vendetta. Gathered near a secluded retreat in the woodlands of northern California, about an hour and a half outside San Francisco, they parked their vehicles to block the entrances.
Their goal was to disrupt the annual alumni retreat of the Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR), a little-known Berkeley think tank associated with the subculture known as rationalism. Flyers allegedly sent out beforehand accused the Center of covering up "sex scandals", discriminating against transgender women, "violating basic principles of friendliness", and other trespasses.
