By KWSI Radio Anyone who’s paying attention has noticed that finding reliable news and information is becoming more difficult almost by the day. In fact, there were an average of 2.5 newspaper closures per week in 2024, and since 2005, well over Three-thousand print newspapers have vanished (2024 State of Local News Reports by Medill … Continue reading Get Amped: A Call to Action
“ICE Tracking” Website Likely Honey Pot, Spreads Misinformation
by Jacob Richards Twice in the last two days people have sent The Revolutionist screen shots of local “reports” of ICE activity from a website masquerading as a community tool to track ICE in our communities. Slick website promising real-time updates, and "encrypted" and "100% anonymous" reporting. The site (ice-tracker.info, and honestly, we would not … Continue reading “ICE Tracking” Website Likely Honey Pot, Spreads Misinformation
The Death of Good
by Payton Young The blatant murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis and the videos of the killing has stirred a lot in me. Renee was a mother of three children, shot and killed by a belligerent ICE agent. As Renee Good was attempting to pull off the congested street, … Continue reading The Death of Good
Judge Rules Most ICE Arrests in Colorado Illegal
by Jacob Richards Caroline Dias Goncalves being pulled over by then Mesa County Sheriff Deputy Zwink. Zwink would go on to illegally share Goncalves’ personal identifying information with ICE, who then illegally arrested her in a ‘collateral arrest.’ On November 25, Senior U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson issued a preliminary injunction forbidding ICE in … Continue reading Judge Rules Most ICE Arrests in Colorado Illegal
Thoughts On 2025 and Our Future
by Jacob Richards There is a lot that can be said about 2025, and many comfortable people will have lots to say about it. It's been a scary year for people, for the poor losing benefits or vital charities losing funding and shutting their doors. It's been scary for immigrants and non white people more … Continue reading Thoughts On 2025 and Our Future
What to do if you See ICE Activity
Editor's Note: This article is being published in Spanish simultaneously and doesn't carry a byline because numerous people contributed to it. “The world will not be destroyed by evil people but by good people who do nothing to stop it.” Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom. Injustice festers and grows when it remains in … Continue reading What to do if you See ICE Activity
Policing is Anti-Queer
by Ashley Stahl When New York assemblymember Zohran Mamdani apologized this month for calling the NYPD “anti-queer,” it revealed far more about our country’s relationship to policing than it did about him. The fact that an elected official felt compelled to apologize to police for stating an obvious truth: that law enforcement has always been … Continue reading Policing is Anti-Queer
Durango: ICE Resisters Brutalized then Blamed for Violence
by Jacob Richards On Oct. 27, at about 7:30am ICE kidnapped Fernando Jaramillo Solano and his two children, Kewin and Jana, while they were on their way to school. The Solano family had an active asylum claim and ICE later admitted that they had stopped the family by mistake. Federal agents deploy chemical agents against … Continue reading Durango: ICE Resisters Brutalized then Blamed for Violence
“Save HomeWard Bound” An Open Letter to the Grand Junction City Council
Dear Grand Junction City Council Members, I do not envy your position at this moment in history, the short-sighted and ultimately cruel policies of the Trump regime are starting to manifest into real world consequences for Grand Junction and the Grand Valley. The federal grants that Homeward Bound depends on have been drastically scaled back, … Continue reading “Save HomeWard Bound” An Open Letter to the Grand Junction City Council
What is Citizen Journalism? Who Knows?
By Jacob Richards At the end of September I was asked to be on a panel about the “Impacts of Citizen Journalism” hosted by the Colorado chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists at the esteemed and historic Denver Press Club. There had been a last-minute cancellation. We weren’t anyone’s first choice, but we were … Continue reading What is Citizen Journalism? Who Knows?
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