Most Censored News of 2023-2024

Project Censored released its list of the most censored stories of 2023-2024 on December 3. Started in 1976 by Professor Carl Jensen at Sonoma State University, the project now includes faculty and students from around North America. The Top 25 Stories of 2023-24 have been selected from several hundred candidate stories submitted by 206 student researchers from nine US college and university campuses.

The Rev Looks Towards 2025

When we launched as a regular publication in April we had goals. We quoted Abbie Hoffman, “if your scene doesn’t have a paper, you probably don’t have a scene together.”  We laid out our goals clearly. We seek “to be [the] backbone for radical movements for change on Colorado’s western slope. Send us your news and events. Help us build a ‘scene!’” That is happening– a scene– a couple of scenes– a whole damn vin diagram is forming.

What is Politics?

If We the People wish to be victorious in the class struggle that bifurcates all of modern society, then we must understand this simple truth; we cannot rely on the power of the capitalists. We must build our own power, and we must build it independently from the power of the capitalists. This necessitates the creation of an independent political organization which operates as a political combat organ of the working people. The building of such an organization is the basic task of socialists and communists nationwide.

WWI and Repression

the organized mob risen from its grave to snoop and tyrannize once more. And it will come up again and again for ever and ever! If there isn’t a good cause like a war, then it will parade for a poor cause. It will always be a cause with ideals so high that no mere law can restrain the execution of its judgements. And it will always be based on hatred and fear. Tomorrow it may come again…. who knows?”

You Have Heard it Said…

Jesus’s entire ministry asks us to see those on the margins and then asks us, over and over, how we can move ourselves closer together to create a community in which all belong. Once we accept this, only one question remains: how will we work together to create this Heaven on Earth? We are a people of abundance! It is time we started acting like it.

Viral Ranting, Racist A Repeat Offender

Robert Taylor Phillips is the owner of Freedom Renovations LTD., and his wife, Katherine Phillips, is a pathologist with The Pathology Group, which works contracts through both Community Hospital and the Mesa County Coroner's Office. The elected Mesa County Coroner, Dean Havlik, is Katherine Phillips’s boss at The Pathology Group.