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JANUARY 2010 VOL. 8 NO. 1

NUMBER OF SECRETICE FACILITIES

exposed around thecountry:

186

NUMBER OFFORECLOSURESlisted in the Jan 13

Daily Sentinel:170

NUMBER OF USCASUALTIES

in Afghanistan in 2009:316

NUMBER OF USCASUALTIES

in Afghanistan in 2002:49

NUMBER OFPROTESTERSkilled by Afghan

intelligence officers ina riot against US troops

desecrating a Koranand defiling women insouthern Afghanistan:

at least 8

EST. NUMBER OFPEOPLE DISPLACEDby the 2008 Olympics

in Bejing:

1.5 million

DAYS OFRESISTANCE

against the 2010Olympics in Vancouver:

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BILLIONS OFDOLLARS

in the 2010 DefenseDepartment Budget:

660

BILLIONS OFDOLLARS

Obama asked foradditional emergency

war funding:33

NUMBER OF CIAEMPLOYEES

recently killed bya double agent in

Afghanistan:7

I n the January 4th edition of The Nation there is a story profilingthe existence of 186 Immigration

Customs Enforcement (ICE) Sub-Stations where people are Disappeared.

From the Nation, ...According toAaron Tarin, an immigration attorney inSalt Lake City, Whenever I have a clientin a subfield office, it makes me nervous.

Their procedures are lax. Youve got thesesenior agents who have all the authority inthe world because theyre out in the middleof nowhere. Youve got rogue agents doingwhatever they want. Most of the buildingsare unmarked; the vehicles they drive areunmarked. Like other attorneys, Tarin wasextremely frustrated by ICE not releasingits phone numbers. He gave as an examplea US citizen in Salt Lake City who hiredhim because her husband, in the process ofapplying for a green card, was being heldat a subfield office in Colorado. By thetime Tarin tracked down the location ofthe facility that was holding the husbandwhen he had called his wife, the man had

been moved to another subfield office. Ihad to become a little sleuth, Tarin said,describing the hours he and a paralegalspent on the phone, the numerous falseleads, unanswered phones and unreturnedmessages until the husband, who had been

picked up for driving without a license or

insurance, was found in Grand Junction,Colorado, held on a $20,000 bond, $10,000for each infraction. I argued with theguy, This is absurd! Whose policy isthis? Tarin said the agents responsewas, Thats just our policy here.

Here are known substations in our region:

Denver, CO 720-873-2899 12445 E. CaleyAvenue, Centennial, CO 80111Loveland, CO 970-593-6477 350 E. 7th

Street, Suite 13, Loveland, CO 80538Aurora, CO 303-361 -0723 11901 E. 30th

Avenue, Aurora, CO 80010Grand Junction, CO 970-241-3791 571 S.

Commercial Drive. Grand Junction.CO 81505

Pueblo, CO 719-948-2915 32920 WaltBassett,Pueblo, CO 81001

Cheyenne, WY 307-772-2040 308 W. 2lstStreet, Room 105, Cheyenne, WY82001

Check these out too

National List of Detention Centershttp://www.jacquelinestevens.org/ICEFieldSubfield0909.PDF

The Nation Article.http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100104/stevens

W all Street and the Banksters inour government and their talkingheads in the mainstream press

keep talking about jobless recovery. Butthere can be no recovery in a societywhere the working class cant make endsmeet. Whos going to buy all their shit and

rent their over-priced vacant properties?This depression is cycling ever

downward. Mesa County now has thehighest unemployment rate in the state.The Wednesday January 13th edition ofthe Daily Sentinel, in the Legal Noticessection, 170 properties in Mesa Countythat are currently in foreclosure werelisted. This is more then triple the numberof foreclosures listed one year ago.

In the same issue of the DailySentinel, there were only 27 job listings.Those lucky enough to have jobs, dealwith cut hours and limit advancementopportunities. The prosperity experienced

by the Baby Boomers will be but afar away dream for our generations.Loyalty to a company will only get yourretirement fund looted and you laid-off,as companies seek cheeper labor abroad.

Economic recovery is a far way off, andits going to get a lot worse before it gets better.Look around. Everywhere there are vacantretail spaces and boarded up houses,

people living in tents or vehicles, familieschoosing between healthcare and food,veterans choosing between medicationand rent, waiters with masters degrees.

We are a generation robbed by thegenerations that proceeded us and weare going to pay the interest on their

mistakes and greed with our poverty.

SECRET ICE DETENTION CENTERS IN GRANDJUNCTION AND ELSEWHERE IN COLORADO

b e t h e m e d i a !

FORECLOSURESWAY WAY UP INMESA COUNTY

CRIMINALIZE THE RICH

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I n late June of 2009, the City of GrandJunction stepped up its continuedcrimi nalization of the homeless

by tryi ng to pass two emergencyordinances targeted at flyin a sign. Thecity tried to sneak these measures throughas emergency ordinances; they had to passunanimously, but could by-pass the normal

process. The city released the text of theordinances the Friday before CountryJam, the areas largest annual event, andheld the hearing the following Monday.

The homeless community, and manyfrom the broader community, came to theCity Council meeting to oppose the bill. Thecrowd was well over one hundred peoplestrong. Even the ACLU sent an opinionletter opposing the ordinances. Both billswere struck down, but were sent back tocommittee forheavy revision.

The revised bill bannedsoliciting inmedians, but also

prohibited anyone being in a medianfor any reason.This measure waseventually put intolaw on October2nd. The firstarrest was made22 days later. JohnMartinez wasflyin a sign at a

place know as the wedge, at the intersect ionof First Street and Grand Avenue. Thewedge is also known as ColoradoWest Park. But how is a park a median?

Sometime in October, the park sign,picnic bench and trash can were removed andthe park became a median. Poof, overnight,gone. The City Managers office told TRPthat changing a park to a median would haveto be something City Council decided. Yet,no mention of changing Colorado West Parkto a median are in the Councils minutes.

Granted the park was never much ofa park, considering it was jammed in an5-way intersection. It was probably firstlisted as a park to create an exaggerated

community-image in order to get businesses to relocate to Grand Junction.

When TRP talked to the Parks andRec department they tossed us aroundthe phone network like a hot potato, butwe got some interesting information.

Council must of designatedit as a median, said Parks andRec employee Ron Felps. Its still

part of our regular maintenance.I have very little information, said

Parks and Rec employee Mike Vendegna.He did say that the sign, picnic table andtrash can were removed from the park justin the last couple of weeks. It was nevertruly a park, said Vendegna. He directedus to the City Clerk and Recorders officefor information on who decided to changethe parks designation, but the City Clerknever returned our repeated phone calls.

There wasnt any authorization, saidCity of GrandJunction Public

Relations personSam Rainguet.Rainguet saidthat after the City

passed the medianordinance the citylooked at certain

parks to see ifthey were parks ormedians. Raignuetsaid that ColoradoWest Park wasnever actuallydesignated as a

park, and so no

official re-designat ion was needed. Whenpressed about who ordered the sign, picnictable and trash can removed, Rainguetsaid I dont know, and promised to get

back with the answer, which she never did.There are other parks in town that arent

really parks and are more like a median, butthey still remain parks. The main reason isthat people dont panhandle at those parks.

Its vindictive. The ordinance lost,then they came back with a watered downordinance that banned people from beingin medians, and then they get rid of anentire city park just to keep a few peoplefrom flying a sign on one corner. Thisis just a little battle in a war the city

has been waging to push the poor andhomeless out of sight and out of the city.

PANHANDLING, PARKS, ANDGENTRIFICATION: CRIMINALIZATION OF

HOMELESSNESS IN GRAND JUNCTION

The star is the location of Colorado West Park/Median

of constitutionalrights through theintroduction ofsupranationalisticmonetary systems

and intergovern-mentalism, isa must see foranyone interested incombating globalismand destroying thehierarchies that see

us as nothing more than subservient proles.

No Direction HomeNot only does Martin Scorsese succeed at

creating one of the most spellbinding depictionsof the man who is arguably the greatest livingAmerican songwriter,he also gives the viewerunmatched portraits

of the depression-erafolk musicians that sodeeply influenced BobDylan and the 1960s.After watching thisfilm you may feel likeyouve just been giftedwith all the beautythat exists in the USA.

Breaking the SpellThis documentary about the 1999 WTO

convergence in Seattle is the second film onCrimethinc.s excellent Guerilla Film Series,Volume 1, which includes, along with five

short films, two other awesome feature lengthdocs: Pickaxe, about the Cascadia Free State,and The Miami Model, about the 2003 FTAA

protests. The entire collection is inimitable

for anyone with a desire to understandthe tactics of contemporary resistance.

PersepolisBased upon the

graphic novel of the

same name by MarjaneSatrapi, who co-wrote co-directs theanimated feature withVincent Paronnaud,this enchantingcoming-of-age talenot only charts the

personal growth of thecharming protagonistas she searches for her identity throughdisparate ideologies and ideals, it givesthe viewer a glimpse into Iran during thelast few decades that many of us wouldnever have otherwise had access to. Thisis one of those flicks that evaluates the

differences between us in order to betterdisplay the qualities we all, as humans, share.

The Weather UndergroundChronicling the exploits of one of the

most effective radical groups of the sixtiesand seventies, The Weather Underground(originally The Weathermen, taken from BobDylans Subterranean Homesick Blues)Sam Green and Bill Siegels doc is as thrillingand inspiring as it is informative. If you wantto see what a life time of dedication to the

betterment of the human race looks like, turnoff that bullshit about Barack Obama (whounderwent a political crisis for affiliating

with former member Bill Ayers) and checkout some folks who were willing to notonly talk the talk, but do what politiciansseem incapable of, that is, walk the walk.

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H eykids!Get

ready to rockout with your

blocks out!The Boogersare here!Their debut

album, Roadto Rock, wasthe 2009

NationalParenting Publications Award GOLDWinner. It features fast and fun twists onchildrens favorites, such as Mary had a

THE BOOGERSMUSIC REVIEW

Little Lamb and the Wheels on the Bus, aswell as original work, including Eat YourVegetables and I Dont Need to be Worried.

Inspired by the Ramones, TheBoogers aim to introduce punk rock musicto kids in a family friendly way. TheBoogers were created by developmental

psychologist and musician Paul Crowe(aka Crusty Booger), and entertain children

and adults with fun music that isnt lame.My favorite? Their version of The

Big Rock Candy Mountain. Peanut Butterand Jelly gets two thumbs up from mytwo year old son. Check out http://www.meet-the-boogers.com/index.html for moreabout this refreshing, inspiring band.

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Activist Calendar

EVERY TUESDAY & SATURDAY 4:00PM

Solidarity Not Charity meets at Whitman Park to serve

free food for free people.For more info: 245-3720

EVERY OTHER SATURDAY 1:30PM

Get Involved in Confluence

Media Collective

For more info: 245-3720

Wednesday, February 3rd 5PM

Drinking Liberally gets together to drink and talk

politics the first Wednesday of the month.Kannah Creek Brewery, Grand Junction

Every Tuesday 1:30PM

Housing First! No More Deaths! meets to devisecreative grassroots solutions to homelessness, and

prevent homeless related deaths.Whitman Park

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February 10th-15th 2010

Convergence agianst the Winter Olympics

Vancouver, British Columbia

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February 12th-14th

Sweater Fest - Live Music, Presentations, Documentary

Screenings and much more. Potluck on Sunday.

For More Info: legiragge.net/sweaterfest

719-201-4170

Winter can be bleak. With cold weather,gray skies, and seasonal depression, itsoften a hard time for many folks to find

inspiration or motivation to pursue the thingsthat seemed so natural and exciting during thewarmer months. But winter is also a greattime to regather and edify yourself, to solidifyyour ideas and develop plans for pursuingthem, to go into your cave only to reemergein the spring wiser and more competent. Here

are ten films to explore during the monthsof frost that will hopefully assist you in this:

ZeitgeistIn this film, producer/writer/director/

everythingelse Peter Joseph displays the waysin which religion, politics, and money have

been used to control human kind for, oh, say,the last few millennia. I find the first part inwhich Joseph reveals the astrological andmythological correlations that have arisen

between most of the worlds major religionsthroughout the ages to be exceptionallyinformative, to the point of making themajority of belief systems based on hierarchicalempires of magical immortal deities evenmore laughable than they already are.

Manufacturing Consent:Noam Chomskyand the Media

This filmis not only a greatintroduction to the

person many havecalled the mostimportant intellectualof the 20th century, itis also an in depth lookinto the governmental

policies that haveshaped our world.

Noam Chomskysknowledge is beyondcategorization, and

directors Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonickdo a fabulous job of presenting a manwhos search for truth and conscience havelead him from linguistics (hes the prof.emeritus in this field at MIT) to syndicalistanarchism (which he outspokenly supports).

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low PriceDirector Robert Greenwald exposes how

Wal-Mart, the biggest corporation in the world,destroys local economies, contaminates localland, screws its employees in the United States,

and uses slave labor in third world countriesto build and assemble most of its products,all the while convincing the consumer of the

benevolence of those at the helm, because,

TOP TEN WINTER WATCH LIST

after all, theyre onlytrying to save youmoney. Fuck MikeDuke, H. Lee Scott,S. Robson Walton,Sam Walton andevery other vampireat the top of thistotem pole of toilet

paper and disposable

electronics for takingadvantage of the pooracross the globe while

touting themselves as some sort of beneficent,family oriented supply store that just happenedto become the largest economy in the world!

The Devil Came on HorsebackThis heartbreaking documentary takes

the viewer through the six month long journeyof US military observer Brian Steidle inDarfur, Sudan, as he watches governmenthired thugs, the Janjaweed, torture anddestroy village after village of civilians. Itthen follows him as he returns home to begreeted by glad-hand politicians and angr ySudanese attaches accusing him of havingmade the whole thing up. The tragedy hereis not only the genocide being carried outagainst a people by its own government,

but, as with Rwanda, the apathetic responseof those countries with the means to stop it.

DJ Spookys Rebirth of a NationDJ Spooky

remixes D.W.Griffiths Birth of a

Nation- the first filmto be screened at theWhite House- andin doing so unveils

what the 1915 silentfilm really is: thegrandest piece ofwhite supremacist

propagandaever produced.This is what schools should bedoing with their text books.

Endgame: Blueprint for GlobalEnslavement

The ever truculent Alex Jones revealsthe Bilderberg Group, an exclusive, uber-elite amalgam of the worlds wealthiest pigswho meet in secret under nearly impenetrable

security to set the world agenda. This terr ifyingfilm, in which Jones explains the annihilation

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T he FBIs COINTELPRO (CounterIntelligence Program) has a dark andsordid history spanning three decades

and four presidential administrations (1956-1971). It was a covert program of domesticterrorism and state sanctioned oppressionagainst popular movements in the UnitedStates. Tactics ranged from illegal wiretapping to the assassination of FreddyHampton, a member of the Black Panthers.The FBI under COINTELPRO sent MartinLuther King Jr. deaththreats, sabotagedthe Socialist WorkersParty, used theirinfluence to terminatecommunist

professors fromuniversities,infiltrated anddisrupted studentgroups, underminedthe civil rightsmovement, incited

gang warfareand many othernefarious and illegalactivities. To theright is a page from

COINTELPRO: BLACK PANTHERCOLORING BOOK

a coloring book purportedly from the BlackPanthers but actually created by the FBI inorder to delegitimize the Black Nationalistorganization. The coloring book wasmass mailed throughout the United Statesand especially to white communities.For brief overview on the history ofCOINTELPRO read the report presented byPaul Wolf to the U.N. High Commissionerof Human Rights: http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/cointelpro/coinwcar3.htm

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On Sunday December20th, 2009 Housing First!

No More Deaths! marchedfor no more deaths onthe streets of GrandJunction, from Whitmanto Hawthorne park, to theCoalition for the Homelessannual memorial for those

who have lost their liveson the streets in our city.HF!NMD! says we should

be sad and angry, and thereis no more time to ignorethe issue, or simply police itaway. Housed and houselessfolks marched to remembertheir friends who have losttheir lives on the streets.

Housing First! No MoreDeaths! took 5th Street bystorm, carying crosses withthe names of loved ones whohave lost their lives on the

streets of Grand Junction.

Weve given him a Nobel Peace Prize, Weve given him our anti-war vote, Weve given him achance to create peace. No Change. Same Game. After Obama declared a surge of 30K troops inAfghanistan, GJ activists felt like it was time to show we do not support wars, wether they are lead

by liberals or conservatives. The sign on the left says Jobs not War. Just something to think about.

March for No More Deaths On The Streets of Grand Junction

GJ ACTIVISTS SAY NO TO OBAMA TROOP SURGE

I n just one year, the Obama administrationhas ushered in a gross expansion ofwar efforts. Obama, the new recipient

of the Nobel Peace Prize, is now sending30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, nearlytripling the U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Hisincreased commitments in 2009 total 47,000

troops. What goes totally unmentioned is theimmense increase of privatized troops underthe current administration. As a result of theadvancing deployment of 30,000 troops, theremay be as many as 56,000 private contractors.

The Defense budget is higher thanit has ever been in US history, with anestimated $639 billion this year, and a record$708 billion for 2011. So, too, the privatemilitary force is the largest it has ever been,with 69% of the Department of Defenseworkforce comprised of private contractors.

While there were promises of withdrawalduring the campaign, soon after his inaugurationObama made it clear he would be removing

only combat troops from Iraq, likely leaving allother forces behind and replacing combat troopswith U.S. trained Iraqi forces. The removal oftroops continues to only proceed rhetorically

WAR IS PEACE: OBAMA SENDS MORETROOPS TO AFGHANISTAN

through the use of security, or peacekeeping troops rather than combat forces.

Obama, the supposed incarnate of peace,also continues Bush-era practices of rendition,which allows for transportation of terrorismsuspects to countries who practice tortureand abuse. Obama is an avid proponent of big

business policies, including the developmentof the predator drone, or unmanned aerialvehicles, and its use in attacks in Pakistan,Afghanistan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen. TheCIAs covert war in Pakistan is an overt useof drone attacks, with a rising civilian deathtoll. In the first six months of his Presidency,Obama ordered more drone attacks thanBush ordered in the three years before that.

Finally, during his Nobel Peace Prizeacceptance speech Obama said, There will

be times when nations - acting individuallyor in concert - will find the use of force notonly necessary but morally justified. WhileObama justifies war morally, we have seen

no tangible improvement on conditions; nopeace. Gitmo and other prisons are still open,we are losing troops in both our wars, and theBush-era torture practices are still in place.