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PERCENT OFRAND JUNCTIONS

POPULATIONthat is homeless:

2

ESTIMATED NUMBEROF HOUSELESS

PEOPLEin Grand Junction:

1000

PERCENT THATINCARCERATION

RATESor women have

increased since 1977:757

UMBER OF EARTHFIRST!ERS

arrested dropping a

banner at a DenverHome Depot:

2

HO CAN HELPkeep The Red Pill in

print:you

PERCENTAGEF WALKINGIOLATIONS

anded out by the GJPDthat have been given to

omeless people:8

VERAGE NUMBEROF HOMELESS

STUDENTSidentified by school

district 51 every year:500

NUMBER OF WOMENin Colorado Prisons:

2302

NUMBER OFDOLLARS

worth of damage eco-activist caused to the

ail Resorts in 1998:2,000,000

ATE OFRAND JUNCTIONSNEXT CRITICAL

MASS:7/31/09

Earth First! is a philosophy of resistance,not a national organization or group.All you need to do to be an Earth

First!er is to agree with the general principlesof Earth First! The battle cry of Earth First! isNo compromise in defense of Mother Earth,which means that we will not compromise ourvalues and morals when fighting to protectthe environment, and we wont take halfa clearcut forest over an intact ecosystem(coughSierra Clubcough). It also meansthat we will protect wilderness and theenvironment by any means necessary, fromrowdy protests and sit ins, to letter writing,tree sits, road blockades and the use of theever elusive monkey wrench. We believe indirect action and in not compromising withthose who destroy our earth for profit. Wealso believe in biocentrism and deep ecology,that all life and ecosystems have inherentvalue beyond their usefulness to humans.Ecosystems and wild places have the rightto exist for their own sake, not because wewant to use them or conserve them. Theseare some of the basic tenants of Earth First!

but the philosophy is constantly evolving.From a historical perspective, Earth First!,

in its current form, star ted up in the southwestin the late 1970s, and has since evolved intoan international movement fighting on manyfronts. EF! Has popularized many creative

tactics in wilderness defense such as tree sits,long term road blockades, tree spiking, hunt

sabotage, and plenty of nighttime activities.The primary method of communication is theEarth First! Journal, a bi-monthly magazinewhich is currently put out by a collective inTucson, AZ (www.earthfirstjournal.org).There is also a national rendezvous twicea year of EF!ers to come together and sharestories and skills, plan future campaigns andhave a good time in the woods (this summerthe rendezvous will be in Cascadia). Groupsform and function autonomously, often basedon their bioregion or a specific campaign. InColorado, the last EF! groups which wereoutwardly active existed in the late 90s as par tof vigorous campaigns against the expansionof ski areas into critical lynx habitat. HCEF!is an attempt to revive the wild spirit ofresistance in this part of the Rockies and

bring folks out of the woods who until nowmay have been operating as lone wolves.

HCEF! is a network of smaller EF!groups throughout the state from Denverand the Front Range, to here in the GrandValley/Western Slope, all the way to thefour-corners area and back again. Withfocuses on the oil and gas industries, theclean coal movement (new plants/mines),uranium mining/milling, the I-70 expansionand stopping urban sprawl, and of course

protecting wildlife and their ecosystems.If you are interested in getting involved

with HCEF! or just want to know whats goingon, email: [email protected]

RADICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM RETURNS TOCOLORADO: HIGH COUNTRY EARTH FIRST!

High Country Earth First! (HCEF! )Started its Anti-I-70xpansion Campaign in Denver this past month.

RESISTANCE BEHINDBARS

BOOK REVIEW

Published by PM Press, Victoria Lawsfirst book, Resistance Behind BarsThe Struggles of Incarcerated Women,

takes a poignant look at the history and issuessurrounding women in prison. An oftenoverlooked reality in our culture, Laws 288-

page book seeks to raise awareness to thelives and struggles of incarerated womenacross the country. With many first-handaccounts of disrespect, neglect, and abuse(physical/mental/sexual/emotional),ResistanceBehind Bar paints a picture that something isdeeply wrong with the way we, as a society,(mis)treat imprisoned people, especiallythe needs of women, which are not usuallyconsidered when thinking about prisoners.

However, this book isnt just a pity party thrown to lament the woes of womenin the prison industrial complex. ResistanceBehind Bars brings to light the many waysin which women struggle against the systemfor more humane living conditions. Manyissues, such as access to education/work

opportunities, adequate and affordablehealthcare, and family contact/visitationhave been fought for inside prison, regardlessof known reprecussions and punishment.

Law seeks to discount the generalassumption by academics and prison activistsalike that women in prison merely accepttheir conditions and do nothing to changeit. While many prison riots and proteststhat occur in mens prisons may be oftenknown about or covered in the media, similarincidents in womens facilities fail to getthe same media attention. In addition todirect action, many women also exhaust theofficial procedures to combat mistreatment.

Complete with numerous helpful endnotes, a glossary,and a sectionon resourcesfor incarceratedwomen, ResistanceBehind Bars offersthe public a newand realistic lookinto the lives ofthe forgotten andthe oppressed.

ResistanceBehind Bars isavailable throughPM Press at

pmpress.org.

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REVOLUTIONARY MEDIA: AN INTERVIEWWITH THE STIMULATOR

ie an extended break. But it was never myintention to quit altogether. Not doing the showis akin to not taking a shit. If I dont take onein a while, my insides could explode. In anyevent, it feels good when people email youcrying that they are pissed that Im quitting.I always email back to chill motherfuckers out.

TRP: You must know a lot ofmotherfuckers in the resistance, how doyou think the revolution is shaping up?

Stimulator:Revolution ismoving andgrowing. Isee it everymotherfuckinday. Peepsare wakingup to the factthat industrialcapitalism is not

working, that weare destroyingthe planet andthat theres nota lot of time left.With that said, we

need to spread the word like our life dependedon it, because with the economy collapsing,things could go in a bad direction right quick.People could start to blame immigrants andwhat not and racist Bible beaters could formlegions of Jesus Zombies with Mack 10s andwell... you can see how bad that would be. Heh!

TRP: What the fuck is an anarchistand why do they need thier own

media like ITEOTWAWKIAIFF?

Stimulator: To me an anarchist is amotherfucker who is on a constant path tofinding and creating freedom. Anarchists dontwait for revolution, every day is time for revoltand creativity. So taking on that philosophy Itry to be an anarchist all the motherfuckin timeand the fuckin show is part of that. We needmore anarchist media to remind ourselvesthat we are out there, that theres a shitload ofus, to not give up, give in, get co-opted and tokeep on, keeping on. Life! Fuckin Eh. Word.TRP: What is fucking new at Submedia?

Stimulator: Fuckin interns man. Peeps who

dig what Im doing and want to learn someskillz while helping spread my potty moutharound. Ive been rocking shit solo for yearsand I felt it was about t ime I asked for help. AndI got it, tenfold. So big upz to Rosalee, Paul,Annette and super bigs to Linda of 4ZZZ inAussie whos been pimping me like Flavor Flavon VH1. Muah!Also other peeps are writingon submedia.tv - ShiftShapers, Zoe Bluntand Isaac. Double fist pumps for those kids.

Also, organizing video ninjas for theanti-Olympics convergence in Feb

of 2010 in my motherfuckin town.Go to no2010.com for more info

Finally, editing a film about environmentaldefenders called END:CIV inspired

by the writings of Derrick Jensen.Go to endciv.com for more info

TRP: Any words of advice for upand coming media revolutionaries,and those in the fucking streets?

Stimulator: Media nerds gotta get workingon free software solutions for postproduction.A lot of the options out there are super basicand we need to stop sucking Steve Jobs cock.

People on the streets fuckin shit up mustcontinue fuckin shit up but we need to havea conversation on how to best cover street

actions while protecting peoples identities.See you in the streets of

occupied VanCity on Feb 2010

STIMULATOR FROM PAGE TWO

W have been fans of radical film makerranklin Lopez and his group SubMediaor years. His short films, Why I Love

Shoplifting From Big Corporations and Joinh

e Resistance, Fall in Love went viral onhe web, and exposed many to anarchist andnti-authoritarian ideas. Lopezs most recentroject is the semi-regular radical newscast,

Its the End of the World As We Know Itnd I Feel Fine. Hosted by the foulmouthedStimulator, the show delivers radical news,treet action,nd more with aealthy dose ofumor, music,nd resistance.

Keep up withhe revolutiony checkingubmedia.tv oroutube.comor the mostecent (s)edition.

The RedPill: How thefuck are you?

Stimulator:Happy, in love and fuckin hectic. Puttingthe final touches on the west coast tour,editing a section of END:CIV and readyto rock another motherfuckin sedition.TRP: What the fuck inspired youto start ITEOTWAWKIAIFF?

Stimulator: I used to work with some badass motherfuckers on TV Radio show called

Democracy Now! I got hooked on news, butfelt the news I wanted to see/hear, news aboutresistance, alternative lifestyles, solutions etc,were hard to find. And when I did find them,the formats were pretty lame. So I said waita motherfuckin minute! I can do this from mycloset. So when I moved back to Vancouver, Itook my beat up laptop and my camcorder andgot to work. That was about 60 episodes ago.TRP: Why the fuck do you announce the end ofthe show at the end of each season? It makes us sad,and then happy when another episode comes out.

Stimulator: Heh! I think it was poor choice

of words on my part. One time I said it wasthe last episode.... Until the RNC and DNCklusterfucks, then after the conventions I wasso fuckin burned out that I annouced a hiatus

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HOUSING FIRST! NO MORE DEATHS!

T e Red Pill has been covering homelessssues for many years. Finally,Grand Junction is seeing movement

rom and for the homeless community. ACall to Action has been distributed by theHousing First! No More Deaths! campaign,and the city put fuel on the fire last week.

On Monday June 29th, the City ofGrand Junction tried to pass two emergencyordinances outlawing soliciting, also

known as flyin a sign or spanging. Whatstopped the city from moving forward withthese ordinances was a strong, large, and loudgroup of homeless people, younger radicalsand other concerned community members.

No one came to support the proposal,and over a hundred people came to opposeit. Solidarity NotCharity (our FNBout here in GJ)

provided foodand water servingon City Hallslawn. Live tuneswere provided bylocal band FastFood Kings andout-of-townersChicken Little.

The ACLUsent a letter to theCity Council just hours before the meetingstating the ordinances unconstitutionalityand its underlying intent to criminalizean entire class of people. The commentsmade from housed or non-housed folkstouched on many of the same subjects.

The city voted unanimously againstone statute and 5-to-2 in favor of the otherone, but since they were trying to pass theselaws without the usual democratic process

they needed to pass unanimously. The citywill now begin the process of bringing theseordinances through the proper process.

While people ate food and listenedto the music outside of city hall, otherswere speaking to the council. A bannerappeared on an adjacent buildingthat read We are Everywhere.

Those in opposition held signsduring the meeting saying things likeHomelessness is not illegal. God Bless.and Will Work For Free Speech. andAsking For Help is Free Speech. Theyalso booed and cheered and were, accordingto the GJPD Sergeant, relatively civil.

The grandest victory at this eventwas that many people felt empoweredand started to see some hope. It showeda lot of people on the street that it

Activist Calendar

VERY SATURDAY 5:00PM

Solidarity Not Charity meets at Whitman Park to serve

free food for free people.

For more info: 257-9520

VERY SATURDAY 12:00PM

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GET INVOLVED!

For more info: 245-4442

00 White Ave. #302 Grand Junction, CO

ednesday, August 5th 5PM

Drinking Liberally gets together to drink and talk

politics the first Wednesday of the month.

Kannah Creek Brewery, Grand Junction

very Tuesday 10am

Housing First! No More Deaths! meets to devise creative

grassroots solutions to homelessness, and prevent

homeless related deaths.

Whitman Park

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ritical Mass. Bring your bike or skate for a

community ride. We are traffic.

Lincoln Park, Grand Junction

really is possible if we stand together.Little did the city know, a coalition

of radicals and homeless people had beenforming quietly for months, and were aboutto start publicly organizing and agitatingfor necessary reforms. Housing First! NoMore Deaths! had its first generally meetingon Tuesday July 7 in Whitman Park.

The homeless, the activists, the localmedia, the concerned spiritual community

and many others from all walks of lifemade up the over 70 attendants. Themeeting was filled with community

building, cheering, excitement, diversity,a sense of action-ready-to-happen, andit made for a great start to the campaign.

Housing First! No More Deaths!introduced theirfour demands:

No More Deaths!Housing First!Housing Now!Homelessness is

Not Illegal!Housing, food,water and medicalcare are basicHuman Rights!

Theyalso encouraged those suffering from

police harassment, which usually takes theform of petty tickets, to plead not guiltyto all charges in hopes of clogging theunjustice system. One man had four ticketsin his wallet, and claimed to have three morein his other wallet. He said that he plans to

plead not guilty to all of the charges. TRPalso found that he plead not guilt y, and someof the ticket were immediatly thrown out.

The group also plans on attendingCity Council meetings every otherMonday and Wednesday at 7pm at CityHall in order to educate through publiccomment and keep the issues fresh inour leaders minds. They also plan onhaving workshops/ski ll-shares in the parkto educate themselves and the community.

With over 70 people in attendence atthe first meeting, most of the local mediain town, a srong spirit of resistance, and thedesperate need to get the four demands met,the kick-off to the Housing First! No MoreDeaths! campaign was a huge success. The

people are ri led up and ready for act ion.Housing First! No More Deaths! will meetagain on Tuesday at 10am in Whitman Park.

Will you join the movement?

Tuesday, July 14th 1pm

now Your Rights When Dealing With Law Enforcement

training/workshop.

Whitman Park

October 23rd-25th

West Rising! A Growing Resistance

confrence on radical organizing.

Denver University

www.westrising.org

FASCIST, FANATICS, AND ESCAPIST

I April 2009, Grand JunctionAlternative Media released its firstublished book. Fascists, Fanatics

Escapists, written by local author/artistQuinten Collier, is a collection of poetry.

Quentin has been writing since theage of twelve, and some of his influencesinclude: Jose Saramago, Pablo Neruda,Eugene ONeill, the Beats, GabrielGarcia Marquez, Tom Waits, Leonard

Cohen, Bob Dylan, and Federico Fellini.In April 2009, Quinten won the

Mark Fischer Poetry Prize for his poem Thirty Years Till Birth, whichis published in Fascists, Fanatics, &Escapists. Quentin has many projectsin the works, including another poetry

book, several plays, and numerous songs.So keep your eye out for more awesome

writing from Quinten Collier. Support localartists! Support local, independent media!

You can purchase your own copyof Fascists, Fanatics & Escapists orany of our other titles at ConfluenceBooks at 600 White Ave. #302 in GrandJunction or on-line at www.gjredpill.org.

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EBUILDING NEW ORLEANSAN ESSAY IN VERSE

BY QUINTEN COLLIERwas in New Orleans volunteering after Katrina and I found an old tape recorder in the

school which our organization, Common Ground, was using for a base of operations.decided to write and record some songs on it during my stay. Heres the lyrics, in

chronological order, to five of those songs. The rest, Im sure, has been explained.

alking Backwards

take off your brain

put it on the mantel

beside the virgin

of Guadeloupe candle

we are that we may desire

to be as we are not

i am that i may desire

not to be at all

our lady of capricious light

your self proclaimedyet uninhabited radiance

gives me a dull

throbbing bit of skull ache

full of vipers

from a sulfur landscape

hattered by the twinge

t the end of a wet dream

id rather not understand

glory is practicing

our clean faces in a magazine

constantly on the phone

with someone well never know

locked in the chemical compoundwhere nothing but smog grows

our prophecy is carving our

likenesses in icicles

if you are just

trying to impress me

knit a woman out of clouds

tiger out of leaves

pull a man out of water

panther out of moss

o i can watch them devour

then become each other

then consume

become themselvesprincess, darling,

your handwriting is illegible

the voice in the whiskey bottle

ttempts to convince me

that im clinging

to a hopeless dream

for the sake of clinging

to something hopeless

but i ask the

whiskey in response

what else should i be doing?

no matter how long i sit

talking backwardsto an empty shot glass

i still dont get an answer

he Spell of Utopia

at the laundromat

the clothes in the machine

pin into a white vortex

like a hurricane contained within a bubble

like clouds in a blender

everyone here is tripping through the revolving

doors

of innocence

on a tight rope of experience

yet none of us are naive enough to believe our-

elves

in my pocket i have a New York quarterone from South Carolina

& one from Maryland

the three bald eagles

wrap their talons around rockets

what fitting emblems of a power

i have no need to possess

the heat from the dryer warms my feet

the tv elevated above our heads

erves as a reminder

that the only way to kill a comedian

is to stop laughing

no matter how austere or elegant i dress

i always feel that my outfit is inappropriateon days like this

when its too cold to be Louisiana

i stand in the parking lot

& let the wind smoke my cigarette

Unification & Prosperity

home is a door that hangs on its hinges

the paint that peels from the wood

youth is a bed where you first learned to pray

to the cross & the girl from church

shadow is a watermark high as the ceiling

that occupies all time & spacege is a lament, a plea to the endless

for a scrapbook that cant be replaced

Compassion

i was long gone

before i got here

& i didnt come

o rescue anyone

i played my part

the same fool ive always been

& i recognize

that dont mean a whole hell of a lot

Compassion- where did it go?

were wrapped so tight in self defense

finance & logic


of these cruel laws

Spiritual Extortion

what the hell are we fighting for?

laws to enforce & wills to defeat?

new order in a chaos that will never cease?

the blind are leading the sick into the inferno


madcap judges & circus justice?

to die by the gun or live now on crutches?the weak are hidden & the maligned reported


genius guerillas waiting to explode?

captive students watching a bitter coup unfold?

we are bound to lose but we will never conform


the taste of oil or the scent of gravel?

wheelchair in the sun or a bandage in shadow?

the reflections by the water have been contorted


no way out now the trains run backwards

just relax & gorge yourself on horror

while those who fought bravest are deemedunimportant


what is the essence

of each breath you take

in this world where you no longer fit?

theres no where to go

& nothing to hold

huddled with all souls adrift

a door is a universe unto itself

not a barrier to be traversed

a bed is the end & beginning of consciousness

where were born & where well return

water is a gasp & a plunge to the depths

of a sea thats devoured its shores

lament drifts between sad ecstasy & grief

& cares not whose lips its upon

if our lives were silent

then let our deaths

ring on forever

what is the essence

of each breath you take

in this world where you no longer fit?

theres no where to go

& nothing to hold

huddled with all souls adrift

we are casualties

point your guns at me

my brothers in arms

livings so hard

it makes dying look easy

but when the veils drawn

the blind still dont see how theyve been

wronged


were wrapped so tight by politics

or just plain cowardiceCompassion- where did it go?

i was born broke

& i still aint rich

is life the pursuit

of fast cars & women?

i would jump ship

but i dont know where id land

is there paradise

in my hands but i still cant touch it?


were wrapped so tight by social tricks

pleasure at loves expenseCompassion- where did it go?

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