Unconventional Denver Meeting Tuesday January 6th 7pm Gypsy House Cafe (basement) 1279 Marion St., Denver Come out to the first meeting of the year! We'll have an update from the Foreclosure Working Group, begin work on upcoming anti-coal actions and whatever else we can fit in. Love and Solidarity! Unconventional Denver
Noah Rockslide of Unconventional Denver joins American Indian activist and scholar Glenn Morris to discuss land use issues. Check it out!
Denver CopWatch was in the streets throughout the Democratic National Convention and we are expecting a great deal of footage and documentation of police activity, especially the brutality that occurred on Monday evening. If you have video footage, photos and witness contact info/statements, or any documentation at all you can send it to Denver CopWatch to be used for legal action/defense by e-mailing it to denvercopwatch07 [at] yahoo.com, or you can call (303) 380-4329 and leave you name and phone number or a way we can contact you and someone will get back with you A.S.A.P. to collect the documentation you have to offer - either we’ll give you an address to which you can mail it, or we can arrange to pick it up at your convenience - or you can mail it to the following address:
Denver CopWatch
P.O. Box 9944
Denver, CO 80209
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Denver CopWatch is a grassroots organization working for increased police accountability and against police brutality in Denver, Colorado. We observe police actively and advocate for peoples’ rights. Contact us at (303) 380-4329, or by sending a message here on Myspace.
Denver CopWatch was in the streets throughout the Democratic National Convention and we are expecting a great deal of footage and documentation of police activity, especially the brutality that occurred on Monday evening. If you have video footage, photos and witness contact info/statements, or any documentation at all you can send it to Denver CopWatch to be used for legal action/defense by e-mailing it to denvercopwatch07 [at] yahoo.com, or you can call (303) 380-4329 and leave you name and phone number or a way we can contact you and someone will get back with you A.S.A.P. to collect the documentation you have to offer - either we’ll give you an address to which you can mail it, or we can arrange to pick it up at your convenience - or you can mail it to the following address:
Denver CopWatch
P.O. Box 9944
Denver, CO 80209
From LA Times - By DeeDee Correll
About 50 protesters in Denver pleaded guilty. Defense lawyers want the remaining cases dropped.
Reporting from Denver — The first wave of trials for protesters arrested during the Democratic National Convention has resulted in a stream of acquittals in what the defendants are calling an embarrassment to Denver and proof that prosecutors ought to drop the rest of the cases.
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Unconventional Denver General Meeting
Wednesday October 15th, 7pm
Hooked on Colfax
3215 E Colfax Ave
Unconventional Denver is hosting a general meeting for all those interested in working with an anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian group. We’ll give an update on what we’re currently working on and how people can help with those efforts. More importantly though, we’ll be setting aside most of the meeting to discuss what Unconventional Denver can offer to Denver, either in its current form or some adaptation into a new group. If you are interested in this kind of work, we’d love to have you there to share your thoughts and passion.
Here are the points of unity we’re working around
* Reject all forms of hierarchy including capitalism, party communism, patriarchy, white supremacy, colonialism, and so-called representational politics
* Organize on a non-hierarchical, consensus-based basis that promotes autonomy, solidarity, grass-roots involvement, and the agency of those most affected by each decision
* Embrace a diversity of tactics
* Do not condemn any action on the grounds that it is illegal alone
Agenda
Introductions
Brief History of Unconventional Denver and Current Thoughts
Upcoming UD Presentations and Workshops
Benefit Event for DNC/RNC Defendants
Regional Conference
Solidarity with Muslim workers
Discussion- What could Unconventional Action offer? Do we keep the name Unconventional Denver?
Next Meeting
Closing
unconventionaldenver@riseup.net
In November, one or the other of the corporate candidates will win, and then, as always, it will be what the people do, not the politicians, that counts.
A video report on the protests that occurred in connection with the Democrat and Republican National Conventions, Ground Noise & Static is a manifesto. We went to Denver and St. Paul to take the pulse of the movement. Corporate media would cover the platitudes and posturing of the politicians, we were interested in something else, a story hidden in plain sight, captured in the now-classic street chant, “This is what democracy looks like.â€
Unconventional Futures: A Proposal for Building Decentralized, Nationwide Anarchist Momentum
Over a year ago, a group of anarchists hoping to initiate nationwide anti-authoritarian organizing against the DNC and RNC formed a project called Unconventional Action. Their vision of catalyzing organizing on the local level to promote coordinated resistance to the conventions yielded success, as over 20 different collectives in various cities and regions took on the UA banner and began preparations for plugging into the convention protests. The informal network of UA groups from coast to coast, working in conjunction with local projects and organizers in Denver and the Twin Cities, successfully mobilized hundreds of anarchists to attend the DNC and RNC protests. Now that the conventions have come and gone, let’s continue to build on the infrastructure we’ve created for this single event. Rather than simply letting that energy and organization evaporate with the conventions done and gone, what sorts of uses can we create for these active, interconnected nodes of direct action-oriented radicals?
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All successes and failures are relative. The way we measure a victory or disappointment is almost more important than whether people actually deem victory or defeat. Looking back on the DNC protests it seems useful to measure the impact of the demonstrations through a variety of lenses, using an array of standards to compare it to.
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