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09/28/2024

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September 26, 2024 – CBI – Gunnison, CO – The Colorado Bure

09/28/2024

Issue #10 of The Revolutionist is looking amazing!

Just the Tip: A Long Look at GarCO's SPEAR, examines the open racism and laconophilia of the Garfield County Sheriff.

Thousands Come Together With PRIDE, Aiden McVay reports back from western Colorado's largest PRIDE ever!

Our News Briefs: Underreported and Misreported stories of the month. A big Who the Cops Shot section this month.

Swords and Solidarity, introduces the Specters of Sherwood, LARPers with a quest for justice!

Myth of the Billionaire Philanthropist breaks down the myth from Carnegie to Musk.

Shifting Paradigms, Telling Stories, and the Power of Fiction in Making Social and Political Change. An interview with musician, author, and podcaster, Margaret Killjoy.

How to Watch Someone Die is a moving true narrative by Audrey Singer, of her journey helping her friend Jack navigate Medical Aid In Dying (MAID) in Colorado.

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09/27/2024

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09/25/2024

See you there!

09/21/2024

"But hours earlier the cell-phone policy was not working for student and families as R-5 High School as the school went into lockdown over a gun threat, and scores of students were searched including pat downs and requests to pull up shirts and pants as GJPD and D51 security searched for a weapon."

But hours earlier the cell-phone policy was not working for student and families as R-5 High School as the school went into lockdown over a gun threat, and scores of students were searched includin…

09/18/2024

Stick it to the man. Print and distro to your co-workers!?

Print and Distro at will!

09/18/2024

"This study revealed that the most successful of these localized governments were the ones that fostered the most successful, public-pleasing social programs, resulting in a higher social capital for the region. Putnam took this groundbreaking study, applied it to research surrounding the rise and fall of social groups and of people in America having the attitude of being a “joiner,” to ultimately arrive at the conclusion that as a democracy, it is absolutely necessary that Americans join groups and build a sense of community. "

Throughout the course of the documentary I could not help but consider how significant of a problem declining social capital feels to me in the context of the Western Slope. Throughout the course o…

09/16/2024

09/13/2024

"In the 1930s, Chapman was elected to the Colorado State Senate. Likely the first blind member of that body, he was later appointed the first blind director of Colorado’s State Industries for the Blind. In 1951, he was appointed the first head of what became the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. There, he helped repeal Colorado’s miscegenation laws, as well as helping draft a first-in-the-nation fair housing law—for which he was attacked in southern newspapers."

by Jacob Richards Carl Gleeser Gleeser was Grand Valley’s first radical and was amongst the first couple dozen settlers in 1881. An anarchist, Gleeser advocated for collective ownership of the firs…

09/13/2024

"dream your vicious dream, america

don’t let our picket lines disturb
your picket fences.
walk on, wayward manifest —
your destiny awaits.
meanwhile, we’ll be here, like
the dirt beneath your feet."

https://therevolutionistgj.org/2024/09/13/septembers-art-and-poetry-page/

Poetry by tahirih bockman, Art Goodtimes, Jacob Richards

dream your vicious dream, america. don’t let our picket lines disturb your picket fences. walk on, wayward manifest — your destiny awaits. meanwhile, we’ll be here, like the dirt beneath your feet.…

09/13/2024

“Be the Person You Needed When You Were Young.” That is the message the Bam Biz Art Mentorship wanted to convey on their LGBTQ+ inclusive mural, unveiled Sunday, September 8. The mural is Grand Junction’s first ever LGBTQ+ mural and is located at Loving Beyond Understanding’s The Center.

“Be the Person You Needed When You Were Young.” That is the message the Bam Biz Art Mentorship wanted to convey on their LGBTQ+ inclusive mural, unveiled Sunday, September 8. The mural is Grand Jun…

09/12/2024

Some 30,000 people participated in protests in the streets of Chicago during the DNC. Uncommitted delegates and office holding Democrats of Palestinian extraction, negotiated to speak from the convention stage, and ultimately were shut out of the convention. Not the expected repeat of 1968, clashes were limited. 74 protestors were arrested.

A Mesa County jury found Peters guilty on 7 out of 10 charges related to her willful breach of election security in a tinfoil-hat attempt to prove election fraud as part of the election denial move…

09/12/2024

"Like anything in life, anything that is hard, if you keep going, you'll finally find your niche, you'll find your family, and you'll find people that enjoy your type of art or your type of style of drag."

https://therevolutionistgj.org/2024/09/11/meet-kandrii-zavalla/

09/11/2024

We have different dreams ...

09/08/2024

Met lots of cool fellow Revolutionists today at Pride.

The Democratic Socialist of America booth was hoping all day long.

So many copies of The Revolutionist were picked up. A few new subscribers.

09/05/2024

That's it. That's the meme.

09/05/2024

"The TikTok creator said, “I never presented it as a ‘Would you rather’ question, because I already knew that women were picking the bear, and men were picking the man.” He continues in his video, “so my intention was to get men to think about why the world looks so different for women that they would actually choose the bear.” He challenges men to get to a place where they can understand why women choose the bear, and if you did, “congratulations, you’ve experienced one percent of one percent of one percent of what they experience every day of their lives, and you experienced it for 2 1/2 minutes.”'

The social media hypothetical has been asking women, “Would you rather encounter a random man or a random bear in the forest?” And the overwhelming majority of women have chosen the bear.

09/05/2024

"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."

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 …

09/03/2024

Nothing says genocide like wiping a people from the map....

We have to cease giving them the weapons to fire.

09/02/2024

Labor Day's Hidden Bloody History

Labor Day, like any of the tokenizing holidays given to people that get the short end of the stick in America, is a cynical exercise of performative justice.

The same month, June of 1894, in which President Grover Cleveland signed into law the legislation creating Labor Day as a national holiday, he sent thousands of US soldiers to put down the widening Pullman Sympathy Railroad Strike and Boycott.

Some 250,000 railroad workers around the country took part in the sympathy strike. Violent clashes with US troops, marshals and local authorities would see around 70 strikers killed around the nation. 30 in one confrontation in Chicago. The strike would draw the whole community of Grand Junction into the fray:

"The condition of affairs at Grand Junction were extraordinary, my deputies were met not only by strikers at that point, but by the citizens who met in a public hall prior to their arrival and had resolved not only to resist the entry of the deputies to the town, but also to give no quarters or sell them anything to eat!" said Joseph A. Small US Marshal in a letter to the Attorney General of the United States.

While relatively peaceful here in Grand Junction, US military in addition to the US Marshalls occupied Grand Junction, to break the strike. 9 local strike organizers were arrested and taken to Denver for trial.

In Trinidad, strikers and their supporters disarmed the US marshals upon their arrival. In Glenwood Springs 100 yard of train tracks were dynamited. In New Castle, which was already in the middle of its own protracted coal miners' strike, multiple acts of sabotage occurred on the rail-lines--Dynamiting switches and burning down bridges.

Local poet, Jacob Huff, published a poem "Stand Up Americans!" on July 7th in the Grand Valley Star-Times.

"This is no time for prejudice, no time to fight
Over politics or public men;
Stand shoulder to shoulder, each man for the right,
and shout this o'er valley and glen;
'Tis the land which our fathers have died to make free
From the grasp of old England's crown;
If we stand up like men for our own liberty,
They dare not shoot the lab'ring man down!!"

Of course, organized Labor already had an annual holiday: May Day. The creation of Labor Day as a national holiday, especially by a bloody strike breaker like Cleveland, was an act of cooption, and attempt at defanging organized labor.

But even then, Labor Day was a very different holiday at the turn of the 20th century, than it is today.

In 1902, Colorado Governor, James B. Orman, issued a proclamation in which he suggested “the entire cessation from labor on that day throughout the state.” He added “Let us then in recognition of the dignity of labor set aside Monday, September 1, 1902, as a day of absolute rest, observing the day by such forms of recreation as are suited to the conditions of our progressive and prosperous people.”

GJ mayor J.W. Sampliner echoed the Governor and declared that "all merchants to close their respective places of business between the hours of 9:30 and 5 p.m.”

Nowadays most workers, we have a service economy, so yes, most workers, have to work on Labor Day. Someone has to staff the sales and wait the tables.

So, despite the memes, Labor Day was not brought to you by unions or organized labor, it was created by a bloody strikebreaking president dedicated to serving only the industrialist and monopolist. It was an effort to tokenize an exploited workforce, and to sap energy away from the radical potentiality of the real labor holiday, May Day.

08/30/2024

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