Stay safe. Be ready to organize on the 6th!
How to Watch Someone Die
He wants a cheeseburger, with no mayo, and fries. He hates mayo. To my surprise, he eats most of the food. It’s the most I’ve seen him eat in a while, and somehow it feels like a rare achievement. A last meal he really could enjoy. In the morning, I go and get him a ham and cheese croissant from Burger King. He can’t eat anything after a certain time, or it could affect the drugs and slow things down.
City of GJ Municipal Court Goes Rouge
Judge Tammy Eret persistently and illegally denies court-appointed counsel to incarcerated people, coerces uncounseled guilty pleas, and often imposes lengthy, uncounseled, illegal jail sentences. Based on the consistency of Judge Eret’s practices, it is likely that all or the vast majority of people convicted by Judge Eret were convicted and sentenced in violation of the Colorado and United States Constitutions.
DSA Fall Social
The newly formed Mesa County Democratic Socialist of America will be hosting a fall social. Meet fellow anti-capitalists, learn about DSA, Join the DSA, or even pick up copies of The Revolutionist!
Swords and Solidarity
"So far, this quest has prompted the donation of four large boxes with more to come. “Mixing Mutual Aid with medieval roleplay is simple.” Nick says as he prepares for next Saturday’s session, “Players are eager to complete quests and perform meaningful good deeds. It only makes sense that we use parts of our game to help out. Despite what many people in our country may believe, we aren’t 'temporarily inconvenienced millionaires.' Most of us are one or two paychecks away from eviction. The unhoused are our people. They are us and we are them, even when we pretend to be someone else.”
Hurricane Helene Update 8
One emotionally uplifting thing for people has been when the dispatch crew hears from the drivers that a load has successfully reached its location in western North Carolina (WNC) and announces this to the warehouse crew. There is always a cheer from the crowd.
Change Making and Story Telling: A Conversation with Margaret Killjoy
Take the history of fiction… Ursula le Guin of course, but also Tolstoy. There’s this entire huge, influential lineage that descends from Tolstoy’s Christian Anarchism. Oscar Wilde…. famous as a playwright and a witty gay man, but he wrote one of the better and most widely-read anarchist socialist tracts of the 19th century, one that gets into everything we’re talking about now… it’s called The Soul of Man Under Socialism and in it he argues that the point of art isn’t to make socialism, the point of socialism is to enable us to make art. He also like, bailed anarchists out of jail. The Modern Library wrote a list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century. Three of the top 5 were written by anarchists
October News Briefs
Who the Cops Shot Glenwood Springs Police Officers shot and killed Richard Grande on September 2. Grande suffered from mental illness and was “known to live in his vehicle.” Police claim he drew a weapon upon contact. Body camera footage has not been released. Montrose County Sheriff Deputy shot and injured one person suspected of … Continue reading October News Briefs
Mutual Aid post-Helene Update #7
For those heading to the mountains, we encourage you to travel in pairs and stay alert. Robberies have been reported. I heard one unconfirmed report of a highway stop by law enforcement targeting supply vehicles. And, to top it off, there have been more than one report of white-supremacist groups sighted in the area, being visible, in some cases bring in aid as well. Bless their hearts.
Thousands Come Together With PRIDE
This is why pride was originally a riot. This is why we need to have pride all year round. This is why pride is important. To stand up and be brave, to be authentically ourselves, to celebrate, and have hope for the future.
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