Denver's camping ban is finally being challenged in a court. The trial is currently set to begin April 4th at the Lindsay Flanigan Courthouse (520 w Colfax Ave Denver CO 80204).
"The Denver government is spending massive resources to prosecute Burton, Howard, and Russell, including calling 33 Police Officers as witnesses in the trial. According to the law, the co-defendants are facing up to $999 and a year in jail for the crime of using blankets to try to stay warm on a cold winter night. Buron and Russell both had their blankets, sleeping bags and tents taken “as evidence” of the crime of camping – leaving them with no gear to survive the freezing winter night and driving Burton to the hospital. Shortly after this, Mayor Hancock publicly directed the Police Department to cease confiscating survival gear for the safety of homeless people sleeping on winter nights. Yet the government is still prosecuting these individuals."
Update: All three defendants were found guilty and sentenced to community service: http://www.unicornriot.ninja/?p=14793
On GEO Group's slave prison in Colorado.
This was The Atlantic's March 2015 cover story, but I just read it recently.
This epic exposé is the account of investigative journalist Shane Bauer's experience working as a guard in a private prison.
@PissPigGrandad was interviewed on the Chapo Trap House podcast shortly after this article came out: https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-82-war-is-heck-feat-pisspiggranddad-21317
Ian Angus gets to the bottom of a mystery. Spoiler: it was Karl Kautsky.
Shane Bauer bought a rifle and spent several days patrolling the AZ-Mexico border with some "three percenter" militia groups.
The Chapo Trap House guys interviewed him about this story: https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-81-the-devil-in-mother-jones-feat-shane-bauer-21217
According to various sources, more than 2,000 people were at the protest at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York City with other protests appearing at significant international airports around the U.S.
(An archived version: http://web.archive.org/web/20170111204054/http://custodians.online/)
A nice breakdown of the several faces of the alt-right.
"We are moving into a bleak period, when understanding the forces opposing us will be more important than ever. That means exposing supremacist ideologies in all forms and guises, but it also means developing a political vocabulary that lets us make distinctions, rather than treat all enemies as one undifferentiated mass."
An illuminating exposé of Jack Donovan's non-Christian patriarchism.
Audio Anarchy is a project for transcribing anarchist books into audio format.
Those in political power require, if not the consent, the tacit cooperation of those being governed.
Even anarchists get homesick.
I'm guessing this is the Scenes From Rojava photo blog Guy talked about starting in the article: https://www.facebook.com/scenesfromrojava/
How some Danish squatters in the 80's defended their home against hundreds of police for several days, and then escaped without being apprehended.
Fetzer recounts Tolstoy's few encounters with Mormonism. He discounts some of the claims Tolstoy is rumored to have made about the Mormon religion (like "If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation,it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known"), and it is easy to see why, but his skepticism that an anti-capitalist like Tolstoy would admire the post-war church seems odd to me... the Mormon cooperative movement had died out by the 1890s, but surely its memory was not completely forgotten?
See also Susan McCloud's article in the Deseret News (21 September 2014), "Leo Tolstoy's view of Mormons as teaching 'The American Religion'":
https://web.archive.org/web/www.deseretnews.com/article/865611356/
I should read this again, more carefully, before I write too much about it.
A look at the schism that developed between two factions of American anarchism -- the Boston Individualist and Chicago Communists -- in the 19th century (with reverberations to today and beyond).