"From Soapy Smith in the 1880s to James Hogue in the 2020s, scammers are a staple of Colorado."
Chess players in Myanmar protest the military coup and arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi by playing without their queens.
This is pretty funny.
Nobody likes terrorists
Eric Brandt found not guilty after being arrested for passing out jury nullification pamphlets.
Witnesses say police are collecting and destroying belongings on "Methadone Mile."
"While authoritarians of various stripes seek to cloud the issue, giving a NATO member a green light to invade Syria is what is “pro-war” and “imperialist.” Speaking as an anarchist, my goal is not to talk about what the US military should do. It is to discuss how US military policy impacts people and how we ought to respond."
Anarchy in Joshua Tree
Good report on abusive Denver-area cops.
A local news account of the eviction of the young Housing and Dignity Village in Oakland. (https://thevillageinoakland.org)
More details reported in this Twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/Indybay/status/1070822320300683265
CrimethInc's analysis of the Yellow Vest movement and the conundrum it presents to anarchists.
I'm just now finding out about this guy. Wow. What an absolutely legendary mix of character, courage, talent, and despair. And unlike Peregrinus he didn't have to talk about it for four years to get his nerve up.
That time a girl in Quebec was arrested and convicted for posting a picture of someone else's graffiti to Instagram.
Donovan Ayres doing some bang-up police work for the racist faction of the California Highway Patrol.
"Michael German, a former FBI agent, said the Sacramento case was part of a pattern of police in the US siding with far-right groups and targeting their critics. 'They have been trained to look into these counter-protesters as if they are the primary threat.'"
Scott Warren was arrested after he helped migrants – but he’s a humanitarian aid worker trying to save lives in a place where so many find death.
Scott is the ninth No More Deaths volunteer to be arrested for giving water to thirsty migrants.
An example of the FBI, in collaboration with a judicial system unable or unwilling to protect individuals' constitutional rights, taking it upon themselves to punish an activist.
This American Life did a good bit on a free speech kerfuffle at the University of Nebraska where a sincere and sympathetic teenager tabling for the right-wing Turning Point USA was confronted and berated by a staff member/grad student for being a 'neofascist Becky'. But the program does not merely paint TPUSA in a sympathetic light, it also points out some ways in which the rights of white students are disproportionately protected.
The program also strongly implies that the grad student in question (who was removed from her teaching position after the incident) is affiliated with the activist group (or 'brand' for lack of a better term) called Betsy Riot. It looks like a liberal antifascist and anti-gun group which describes its members as "feminist patriots" and "punk patriots" (so maybe emphasis on the liberal). https://betsyriot.com/