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As homeless defendants face camping charges, Denver courts lie to jurors.
DENVER, COLORADO- Trial began yesterday for three homeless activists charged with violating Denver’s Unauthorized Camping Law. An ordinance enacted in 2012 partly as a coordinated response to Occupy Wall Street encampments across the country, partly to smooth the city’s gentrification … Continue reading
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Denver jury trial for offense of leaving your homeless little dog off the leash
DENVER, COLORADO- Adrian “Munk” Brown faces trial on Monday, charged his dog being at large on the Lindsey Flanigan Courthouse Plaza. This happened on June 21 of last year, when he was testifying at the trial of a fellow activist. … Continue reading
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Tagged actions, Activism, ALF, Animal, Arrest, BSE, Civil Disobedience, Colorado, cops, Crime, criminal, Denver, DIA, DNA, DPD, Election, Evil, Exercise, Flag, guilt, Homeless, jail, Kidnap, Liberation, Lindsey Flanigan Courthouse, Media, Orwell, police, prosecutors, Rights, Target, terror, terrorist, terrorists, trial, trials, Truth, USA, verdict, Writing
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DIY legal strategies for defendants to give their lawyers a running start
If you’ve been arrested at a protest action you’ve got more legal options than paying the fine or taking a plea deal. Whether or not your act was constitutionally protected, or should be, or whether it was civil disobedience and … Continue reading
Posted in Monkeywrenching
Tagged Activism, activists, AIG, ALF, ARN, Arrest, Bono, Civil Disobedience, Conference, Constitution, cops, coup, criminal, decline, Denver, GIs, guilt, Injustice, IRS, jail, Judges, Justice, Killer Cops, Latin, Money, nothing, Pathetic, Pot, prosecution, prosecutors, Protest, RAW, reason, trial
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Fracking protest message at Denver 350 rally cuts through nebulous “Forward on Climate” theme
DENVER, COLORADO- Score another success for Colorado Fractivists who crashed this weekend’s climate rally with their unequivocal anti-fracking message. The February 17 event was intended to urge President Obama “Forward on Climate”, to borrow his most recent campaign vagarity, but … Continue reading
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Tagged 350 ppm, Activism, activists, AIG, ARN, Arrest, Big Coal, Black Bloc, Boulder, Campaign, Carbon Emissions, Cars, CIA, Civil Disobedience, Clean Coal, climate, Climate Change, Coal, Colorado, Corporate, Crash, Crow, Cuts, Democratic Party, demonstration, Denver, DIA, Direct Action, Disaster, Driving, Earth, Energy, Environment, EPA, Forward, Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Global Warming, Guardian, heroes, Horror, Keystone XL Pipeline, March, Mark Udall, Mars, Masks, Media, Michael Bennet, Natural, Natural Gas, Obama, Occupiers, Occupy, Occupy Denver, Parade, police, President, President Obama, Protest, Rally, Rap, Sierra Club, slogans, Tar Sands, Texas, Tribute
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Colorado Springs issues permit to sleep on sidewalk but without tents. Let Them Eat Concrete
COLO. SPRINGS- I’m not crazy about OCCUPY organizers negotiating with city representatives for a tentative permit to occupy Acacia Park. You don’t need permits for free speech, nor does activism gain by the advice of cops. That said, allowing a … Continue reading
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Tagged Acacia Park, Activism, activists, America, American, American People, Art, CIA, Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Condi, cops, Craft, demonstration, Denver, Department, Dissent, Drones, enforcement, EPA, Exercise, Free Speech, guilt, Headlines, Health, Intel, Intelligence, internet, Let them Eat Concrete, liberty, Mali, March, mayor, Might Makes Right, Military, Military Intelligence, Occupation, Occupiers, Occupy, occupywallstreet, Permit, PLO, police, POW, power, Protest, protests, Representatives, Rights, Shelter, shoe, Snow, trial, Wall Street, Water, Yemen
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Howard Zinn disses civil obedience
“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil Disobedience, Conformity, cruelty, Greed, Howard Zinn, jail, jails, Poverty, starvation, Stupid, Stupidity, thieves, War
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Are FBI raids on activists focused on UNAC strategies?
The UNAC is claiming that recent FBI raids on the offices of various antiwar organizations are linked to those which attended its July conference, an attempt to coordinate national antiwar activities. Even the title of the conference was never pinned … Continue reading
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I protest UC students self interest
UC students are occupying campus buildings, in scenes gloriously reminiscent of the 60s. Debbie Downers have foretold that an antiwar movement would not catch the interest of youth until there was a military draft to affect them. They are right. … Continue reading
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Tagged Antiwar, Antiwar Movement, Berkeley, CIA, Civil Disobedience, Economy, Fire, Fish, Interest, March, Middle Class, Military, NRA, Occupy, Peace, Protest, rallies, School, Student Riots, students, tuition, University of California, War, youth
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Protest at discreet AFB for drones
COLORADO SPRINGS- Local non-confrontational peace activists held a protest today where they knew no one would see them, and to be doubly sure, they timed it so that no commuter traffic would be passing either. Schriever AFB administrates world GPS … Continue reading
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Tagged activists, AIG, Antiwar, Armed UAS, Art, Campaign, CIA, Civil Disobedience, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Democracy, Democracy Movements, Drones, GIs, GPS, humanitarian, Liberation, Military, Peace, Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission, PPJPC, Protest, Schriever AFB, students, tutoring, War
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Agents of injustice
“Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice. A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you … Continue reading
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Tagged America, American, Army, Art, Business, CIA, Civil Disobedience, David, Devil, Earth, Evil, Exercise, Fun, funeral, GIs, GM, God, Government, heroes, Humanity, Injustice, IRA, jail, Justice, Legislators, MAGA, March, Memorial Day, Militarism, militia, Monkeys, Morality, Natural, Navy, Patriots, Peace, Posse Comitatus, POW, power, RAW, reform, Resist, Respect, Riots, Science, soldier, Soldiers, Thoreau, US imperialism, War
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High Country Earth First Denver Meeting
High Country Earth First is hosting the EF! ROADSHOW, in DENVER, May 25-26: Monday 2pm in Cheesman Park, and Tuesday 6pm at the Gypsy House. Four ongoing EF! projects in Colorado: DENVER: Stop I-70 Expansion through North Denver; SAN … Continue reading
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Tagged 2008, AIG, ALF, America, Animal, Animals, Arizona, ARN, Art, artist, Bank of America, BIA, Biodiversity, Bling, Blockade, BOA, BP, British, BSE, Buffalo, California, Campaign, Canada, CIA, Civil Disobedience, climate, Climate Change, Coal, Coal Mining, Colombia, Colorado, Community, conservation, Corporate, decline, Defense, Denver, Department, DIA, Direct Action, Disaster, diversity, Drilling, Earth, Earth First, Easter, Ecosystem, Empire, Environment, EPA, Evolution, Fascist, Fashion, FERA, Feral Futures, First Nation, First Nations, Florida, Ford, forest, Fraud, Free Trade, Fun, Fundraising, Globalization, Government, Gypsy, Harassment, High Country Earth First, History, IAM, India, Indian, Indiana, Indianapolis, Indigenous, Industry, Infrastructure, Inspire, Insurgent, Insurgents, internet, IRA, IRS, Killing, logging, Media, Mexico, Mines, Mining, Mississippi, Music, Natural, Natural Gas, Nature, New York, NGOs, Olympics, Oregon, Origin, Passion, PLO, Pot, POW, power, Power Plants, Public Relations, RAW, reality, Recruitment, Reds, redwoods, Relationships, Research, Resist, Resistance, Revolution, Rights, Rock, rural, Sabotage, shallow, Slaughter, Solar, solidarity, spin, Sport, Sprawl, Surge, Target, The Nation, Threats, Trading, transportation, Trees, Treesit, trial, Tribute, Troy, Tucson, U.S., United States, USA, Video, Voice, Volunteers, War, Water, Website, Western, wildlife, Winter, Winter Olympics, Workers, Working, youth
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yet another Triple Standard… (quadruple, quintuple, sextuple ….)
A group of “hippies” including a retired Judge get beaten by the CSPD at a parade where the entrance fees and requirements are fulfilled, the Gag-Zette and all it’s Sieg Heil readership say “well, Free Speech, yes, but there have … Continue reading
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Tagged Accomplices, actions, America, American, Arrest, Art, Bill Owens, Blackwater, ChickenHawk, Churchill, CIA, Civil Disobedience, College, cowardice, Crack, Crime, criminal, Death, Death Penalty, Fallujah, Fire, fires, Free Speech, Gag-zette, Gestapo, Government, heroes, Hippies, Interrogation, IRA, Iraq, Journalist, Military, Murder, Murders, Parade, Pies, prison, reason, Right Wing, sex, Trolls, War, War Criminal, Ward Churchill, Water
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A look at ‘peaceful nonviolence’- Is deliberately getting yourself arrested or in other trouble with the law smart?
One of the standby tactics of the Christian liberal types is to deliberately get arrested or otherwise break the law in some form or other. The question is, is this tactic a very smart one or is it a tactic … Continue reading
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Tagged ALF, ARN, Arrest, Art, Axe, breaking the law, Christ, Christian, Civil Disobedience, Community, Community Service, criminal, Fun, Government, Headlines, jail, Latin, liberal, Nonviolence, Peace, Peaceful nunviolence, Pentagon, police, soup kitchen, Tax, Taxes, Troy, Violence
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Colorado Springs own cloud maker
Last week’s POWER SHIFT 09, where 12,000 student environmentalists converged on Washington, culminated with a protest of a DC power plant which still produced 40% of its electricity from coal. A threatened largest act of mass civil disobedience pushed Washington … Continue reading
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RNC set to kick off, and kick ass
It has already begun. Scores of police officers and other law enforcers raided private homes and a St. Paul building as a pre-emptive strike against a “criminal enterprise made up of 35 self-described anarchists…intent on committing criminal acts before and … Continue reading
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Tagged Anarchists, Art, Civil Disobedience, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Convention, criminal, Department, DNC, enforcement, EPA, Homeland, Minneapolis, Oppression, police, Police State, Republic, Republican, Republican National Convention, RNC, St. Paul, Strike
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ARD, Tent State surrogate for DNC cops
DENVER- Accounts of the Wednesday march from the Colosseum to the DNC are only getting half the story. Can I recount my small part? We were at the Pepsi Center entrance, laying the groundwork for the arrival of the IVAW … Continue reading
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Tagged activists, ALF, America, ARN, Arrest, Art, bad cop, Borat, Boy Scouts, BSE, CIA, Civil Disobedience, civility, Code Pink, cops, Democratic National Convention, Democratic Party, Denver, Disinformation, DNC, Fraud, good cop, GOP, Greens, IVAW, Love, March, Minneapolis, Monkeys, Parade, Pepsi, Pink, police, Police State, Protest, protests, Race, reality, RNC, Saboteur, Scouts, soldier, Soldiers, Tent State, Thinking, Trucks, United for Peace and Justice, Vets, War, Wednesday, Workers
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Crossing the line at Peterson AFB
COLORADO SPRINGS- The annual Sisters Witness Against War took an interesting step forward Friday when three sisters decided to step across the line. Ostensibly to deliver a letter which had gone thus far unanswered by the Peterson AFB commander. Event … Continue reading
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Tagged Air Force, Antiwar, ARN, Arrest, Arrests, Art, CIA, Civil Disobedience, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Compassion, courage, CSAction, demonstration, DIA, EPA, Forward, Gazette, GM, Interest, Latin, Left, Media, Militarism, Military, nuns, pacifists, Passion, Peace, Peterson AFB, Petition, Pink, police, Pot, Protest, protests, Rap, Reparations, Respect, Science, Security, Sisters Witness Against War, soldier, Soldiers, The Gazette, Thinking, Uber, US Air Force, USA, War
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Henry David Thoreau’s writings about the military
Most folk only know about Walden Pond and Henry David Thoreau’s reflections about the tranquility there. They think of him only as some sort of nature writer. However Thoreau was also an American anarchist whose other writings about society are … Continue reading
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Tagged America, American, Anarchism, Army, Art, Business, Civil Disobedience, College, David, Earth, Exercise, Fun, funeral, Government, Humanity, IRA, jail, MAGA, March, Military, militia, Monkeys, Natural, Nature, Navy, Peace, POW, power, RAW, Respect, Science, soldier, Soldiers, students, Thoreau, War, Writing
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Support the Troops, and vice versa?
Do you remember the Beijing Spring of 1989? Students were protesting China’s authoritarian regime occupied Tiananmen Square and for a time successfully won over the soldiers sent in to expel them. Do you remember the images? Waves of People’s Liberation … Continue reading
Posted in Local News
Tagged AA, activists, ALEC, Antiwar, Army, Art, Beijing, China, Chinese, Civil Disobedience, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Community, Condi, Contractors, Convention, Conventions, Crow, demonstration, Denver, DIA, DNC, Education, enforcement, EPA, executions, Indoctrination, Intel, Intelligence, leadership, Liberation, Military, Military Intelligence, National Guard, Patriotism, Peace, POW, power, prison, Protest, RAW, rural, soldier, Soldiers, students, Support the Troops, testing, The Nation, Tiananmen, Totalitarian, Treaties, troops, US military, War, Working
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Thank you, sir! May I have another?
This morning I clicked on our new upper-left graphic which imparts info about protesting the state democratic convention. What I discovered was page after page of terms to meet and rules to obey, laid out neatly by the powers-that-be, so … Continue reading
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Tagged activists, America, American, Americans, Amy Goodman, Art, Bees, children, CIA, Civil Disobedience, Civil Liberties, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Convention, courage, DIA, Dissent, DNA, faith, Family, freedom, Globe, Government, Graphic, here's M, History, IRS, Justice, Kidnap, Left, Map, Maps, March, Media, Military, New Orleans, nothing, Oppression, Passion, Pathetic, Peace, police, POW, power, Protest, Rap, rapist, School, Security, Social Security, State Democratic Convention, testing, thank you, US war, USA, Vagina, Violence, Voice, War
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Legal artistry
(In response to questions received on another forum: “I’m curious as to why, exactly, you feel that you are entitled to stay in a public park at all?”, “What makes you feel that you are entitled to enjoy the ‘right’ … Continue reading →