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BREAKING: FBI Raids Activist House in Utah, Connected to Iowa ALF Investigation

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:50:52 +0000

FBI raid of Salt Lake City house of animal rights activists. Photo by Jordan Halliday.FBI agents and law enforcement from multiple agencies have raided a well-known activist group house in Salt Lake City, Utah, today in connection with an investigation of Animal Liberation Front crimes in Iowa. I just got off the phone with multiple housemates [...] Related posts:

COP15 arrestees Noah and Natasha head to trial March 16th

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:44:29 +0000

Noah, who hails from Denver, is headed to trial tomorrow. Stay tuned for how it turns out! Our thanks to Cop15 AntiRepression for this: On March 16th and March 19th, Noah (American) and Natasha (Australian) will go to trial for charges related to the organization of demonstrations against the COP15 conference in Copenhagen in December 2009. [...]

Thursday: Denver ABC Poker Tournament!

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:58:39 +0000

Date: Thursday, 18 March 2010 Time: 8:30 PM Location: P & L – 23rd Ave. & Clay St. Come play some Texas Hold ‘Em with your buddies! This is a shootout style tournament. Please come at 8:30pm SHARP to ensure you can play. The buy in is $10 and the winner will go home with 100 bucks! That [...]

Friday: Indigenous Strategies for Hood Liberation

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:17:08 +0000

Friday, March 19th 6:00pm to 8:30pm AFSC Offices (901 W. 14th Ave rm. 7, Denver) Join us for an evening talking with organizer and filmmaker Simón Sedillo and viewing the new the film from the Mano Vuelta Media Collective “Xip Xop oaXaca” about conscious Hip Hop in Oaxaca, Mexico. We’ll look at specific institutions which threaten the lives of [...]

March 24th: Oakland 100 Film Screening and Discussion

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:07:07 +0000

March 24th 6:30 PM at P&L Printing (2298 Clay St, Denver) Denver Anarchist Black Cross hosts a film night to benefit the over 150 people who were arrested during the rebellions in response to the January 2009 police killing of Oscar Grant III in California. On the night of January 7th, a protest of the execution became a riot [...]

Fox and National Public Radio Have Something in Common: Taking Down Obvious Fair Uses

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:24:19 +0000

The Fox News Channel boasts that it takes a different approach to news coverage than, say, CBS, NBC, or NPR. But it appears Fox takes the same approach as its competitors when it comes to fair uses of its news coverage in political advertisements: to try to shut them down using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's rapid-fire notice and takedown process. Ben Smith at Politico reports that the Fox news network has used a copyright claim to cause YouTube to disable access to a Democratic National Committee advertisement less than 24 hours after it was posted. The ad, which accuses Senate candidates competing in the Republican primary of focusing on trivial issues, excerpted less than a minute of a Fox interview with one of the candidates. The DNC has fought back, firing off a letter to Fox explaining the "DNC's use of the clip is squarely within the bounds of fair use" and demanding that Fox effectively withdraw the claim. The DNC also implicitly threatens to sue Fox under Section 512(f) if it continues to maintain the copyright allegations, and name checks EFF's Lenz case in the process. As a news organization, and so presumably familiar with the concepts and application of fair use, Fox should know better. Let's hope Fox will take this chance to distinguish itself from its rivals and show its support for free speech by withdrawing its spurious copyright claim.

Real Risks

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:40:30 +0000

From Facebook An Open Letter to the White Student Movement by Queer Black Revolutionary Response to a Critic of the "white" Student Movement by The Invisible Women Committee Why Did the March onto the 980 Freeway Happen? by Nico Dacumos Rebuttal to "Why Did the March onto the 980 Freeway Happen" by Melissa Merin (MM) The Raider Nation Collective Statement on the M4 Highway Takeover, by The Raider Nation (RNC) The Dawn of The Crisis Generation, by The Crisis Generation This letter is meant as a contribution to the larger conversation, represented by the letters linked above, happening around the public education movements. And is specifically in response to Melissa’s letter and the raider nation collective's statement. And to be clear, I am not putting this letter in context w/a continued debate around the Oscar Grant movement- based upon an understanding that the rebellions around Oscar Grant’s execution and the actions to defend public education are not comparable. Meaning, the Oscar Grant rebellions (specifically Jan 7th, 2009), was an uprising of primarily communities of color responding to vicious state violence and were spontaneous collective actions; whereas the March 4th freeway takeover, the "Berkeley riot”, and some of the other occupationist incidents were planned actions by higher ed. student communities and networks. read more

Elliot Hughes Accepts a Plea, Can Still Sue for Police Brutality

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:46:38 +0000

On Monday, March 8th, 2010, Elliot accepted a plea deal as his trial for two counts of gross misdemeanor assault on an officer and one count of misdemeanor obstructing legal process was about to commence. Elliot fell off his bike following a collision with a St. Paul bike cop during the RNC and was promptly [...]

Elliot Hughes Accepts a Plea, Can Still Sue for Police Brutality

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:00:04 +0000

David McKay transferred to California (confirmed)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:17:00 +0000

Denver ABC recently heard back from David McKay of the Texas 2, and confirmed that he’s now being held in Herlong, California. David was moved from Texas to California in order to participate in a 9-month drug program. There is a small chance that completion of the program will get him a reduction of his (4 [...]