Who is The Revolutionist?
We are a loose nebula of writers, organizers, abnormalists, freethinkers, poets, revolutionaries, dreamers, citizen journalists and agitators on Colorado’s western slope, and beyond. We dream dreams bigger than ballot boxes and charismatic leaders … We know that when the people lead, the leaders will have to follow.
Why The Revolutionist?
We have resurrected this publication after over one hundred and twenty years, because there is a need for a publication like this. We live in days of mass houselessness, low wages, high rents, price gouging and there needs to be a publication that speaks for people. We are in every way a community generated publication.
Since re-launching The Revolutionist, we have broken major stories, from SRO’s use of excessive force on student, to local law enforcements illegal and ongoing cooperation with ICE, to the rising tide of hate at CMU leading up to the controversial talk by racist, Jared Tayor, and teachers and citizens being denied entry into school board meetings.
We have given voice to the voiceless. We have featured the work of 54 writers, photographers, artist, poets, and journalists. Ranging from high-school students, retired professors and lawyers, laborers, sex-workers, houseless folks, schoolteachers, and everyday people like you with something to say.
Our efforts have been noticed, and The Revolutionist has been in the pages of other media around the state and nation.
“The Responsibility of the Writer” Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.
Same article was then picked up by Editor and Publisher
“DSA Chapters Lead Protests Against White Nationalist Across the State.” Colorado Times Recorder
“Failure to Respond” CMU Criterion
Even attacked by the far-right media: “Schumann: Socialist Seeds in Conservative Soil? The New Battle for Western Colorado’s Identity” The Rocky Mountain Voice
“Mass Murder Nostalgia all the Rage in some Colorado Socialist Circles” Complete Colorado
Hosted on local radio and podcasts:
KWSI Radio’s Civics and Action and Wild Earth Conversations
And was a panelist at the Colorado Society for Professional Journalists recent discussion about the “Impact of Citizen Journalism.”
How do I support The Revolutionist?
Submit your art/journalism/essay/poetry, etc, Here
Subscribing is solidarity! Get the Revolutionist in your mailbox! Subscribers subsidize free copies distributed across the Grand Valley! Subscribe today!
You, Luddites and Outlaws can mail $20 to $250 or more to our P.O. Box 163, Fruita CO, 81521. Cash or Checks made payable to “The Revolutionist.”
Purchase some merch at our zine store!
Help expand our reach! If you are willing to commit to printing ten or more hard copies and distributing them in your community, we will email you a pdf right when it goes to print. Email us at therevolutionistgj@gmail.com to get on the distro team lists! Already folks from Moab to Aspen and Durango to Parachute and most towns in between have someone printing and distributing the Rev.
Who funds The Revolutionist?
You do! The Revolutionist doesn’t sell ads. We don’t beg from the non-profit industrial complex. We seek to prove that truly community generated news, art and thought is self-sustaining, and so far, it has been. Join Us.
What’s the history of The Revolutionist?
S.B Hutchinson was the original publisher of The Revolutionist and the first socialist Chief of Police in America. Hutchinson was serving as Alderman (equivalent to city council member) while publishing The Revolutionist. Like Hutchison, we have a critique of capitalism and monopolies, and endless imperialist warfare that is censored from our national discourse. We make no bones about it we stand on the side of the oppressed–on the side of the worker and not the powerful.
“The only real difference between us is this: You love and support the system that produces the tramp, yet you despise the tramp the system produces, while I despise the system that produces the tramp, yet I pity the tramp.” S.B. Hutchinson. Daily Sentinel, Aug. 8, 1912.
Where can I find a copy of The Revolutionist?
This website. Every article that goes into the print copy plus more ends up on our website! We also have a Facebook page. If someone wanted to help the cause, we could use help getting The Revolutionist onto other social media platforms. Reach out!
Hard copies can be hard to find, to guarantee you get a copy, subscribe. Subscriptions can also make great gifts!
We distro at the beginning of the month, but we are all just surviving late-stage capitalism too, so it can be a bit irregular.
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