Water and Workers: The Amazon Leaks Two sets of leaked Amazon documents have made the news recently. The New York Times reported from leaked internal documents that Amazon plans on replacing 600,000 workers with robots by 2033. The Guardian reported via leaked internal documents about how Amazon conspired to mislead the public about water usage … Continue reading November News Briefs
September News Briefs
Whitman Park Closed for Two Years Two years ago the City of Grand Junction suddenly closed Whitman Park, with no notice or public process. Whitman Park had long been associated with the unhoused, who found community, mutual aid, and public bathrooms there. Numerous organizations and private citizens utilized this gathering place to serve food to … Continue reading September News Briefs
The Put Out
by Cheese Burger Part One: Hubris. Wind gusts at 70 mph in my hair as a mirror flies by my face. That chicken fucker just tried to kill me. Chicken fuckers are happy to drive a hippie over in Delta if they’re pissed off about their shit job in the morning, whereas at night, they … Continue reading The Put Out
Montrose Methodist Take Stand for the Unhoused
Montrose has long struggled with how to address the issues raised by an increasing population of unhoused people. However, in November of 2024, the city passed a camping ban, which made it a crime to camp without permission within the city limits. The local Methodist church opened its vacant area to the affected population to camp. Not long after, the City began issuing tickets to the pastor, Kevin Young. To date he has received more than 20 tickets for being in violation of the city statute prohibiting camping. The pastor argues that it is his Christian duty to house the houseless, and to offer them succor. This position invokes recent cases by the U.S. Supreme Court addressing the conflict between local law and religious belief in action (often called preferences to sanitize the language).
Dread-ja Vu: On Closures, Cops and the Coming Winter
It took me a week to think of a name for it. Dread-ja vu. The meeting place of deja vu and dread, it’s the feeling that’s brought on by watching the same terrible thing happen over and over again, and over and over until a sick suspicion rises within you that this is always how the story ends.
The Tyrant Judge of Grand Junction
To translate this all into everyday English, Judge Tammy Eret has (allegedly) deprived United States citizens of their constitutional right to legal representation, strong-armed defendants into pleading guilty to crimes that they did not commit, and then locked them up in the county jail on the taxpayers dime for sentences longer than allowed by law; the majority of these defendants, as mentioned earlier, did not receive the legally required representation in court.
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.
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West Slope Moves to Criminalize Homelessness in Wake of Grants Pass
We can debate all the weasel words, Mayor Abe Herman, his mentor Anna Stout and the Daily Sentinel are happy to do that, but the growing sprawling encampments in the desert north of Grand Junction are evidence of the war on unhoused people free of doublespeak, spin, and euphemism we currently get from City Hall.
News Briefs
Pueblo Bans Needle Exchanges The city of Pueblo voted to ban needle exchanges. “The decision wasn’t based on science, public health or harm reduction principles; it was all based on assumptions, stigma and fear,” said Barbra Cadwell, Legislative Director for Colorado Organizations and Individuals Responding to AIDS. The late-night vote took place after … Continue reading News Briefs
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