In 2012 Boulder's city council made sleeping in public a non-jailable offense in an attempt to exclude the accused from jury trials. But now that a judge has ruled the homeless are still entitled to a jury, the city council has voted to increase the penalty to include jail time again.

"A protest group called “Occupy Denver” that used to protest in downtown Denver and in public areas has now reverted to a different tactic — descending on a quiet Denver neighborhood every Sunday afternoon and protesting outside the private home of a Denver business leader whose organization supported Denver’s urban camping ban"

"The ban makes it illegal to camp on public and private property in Denver. The City Council voted 9-4 to pass the ban in 2012."

"Global Uprisings is an independent news site and video series dedicated to showing responses to the economic crisis from around the world."

'With ticket prices so high and labor costs rivaling those of a Cambodian sweatshop, how much money does SXSX Inc. actually make? “As a privately held company, SXSW doesn’t release any financial information,” said spokesperson Elizabeth Derczo when I called her up.'

The hunger strike has spread to another GEO Group facility in Texas, while only two prisoners remain on strike in Tacoma:

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/03/19/3105791/hunger-strike-down-to-2-detainees.html

"The image of Fahad’s torture is not that of a person being led around an interrogation room on a dog leash, or held in a stress position with heavy-metal music blasting. It is a person sitting still in a small cell, slowly deteriorating in a modern prison on the outskirts of a small Colorado town."

For a balancing view, see Timothy Snyder's upcoming The New York Review article:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/mar/20/fascism-russia-and-ukraine/?insrc=hpss

"But are the protests really as anti-nationalist and class conscience as we might hope? Or are they merely an outlet to the rising frustration and narrowing options for BiH’s youth? I talked to Minel Abaz, a student activist and organizer from Sarajevo, to find out."

"Now Bosnia is really joining Europe — but from quite another perspective as the one originally imagined by the European bureaucrats: its squares are burning like those in Greece, Spain and Turkey."

“There have not been very many terrorism cases that the government or the state hasn’t won in this country, which should tell you something right there. This is a huge, huge victory against the war on terror, which ought to be re-examined.”

All of Kevin Gosztola's reporting on the trial: http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/tag/nato-3/

This interview is the most clarifying account of the Ukrainian situation I've found yet.

"Asheville Fm radio, based in western North Carolina, aired a fascinating interview with an anarcho-syndicalist named Denys, from the Autonomous Worker’s Union in Ukraine. In the interview, Denys debunks many of the myths surrounding the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine, and explains motives behind the stories and propaganda being circulated around the protests."

An update from the same group: http://revolution-news.com/ukraine-autonomous-workers-union-update-euromaidan/

Whenever I walk down Lowell Blvd I see this little elementary school, Ricardo Flores Magon Academy, and I wonder what its story is and if the local community has ties to Magonismo. According to this Westword article, it's just a charter school with no anarchist influence which was named after Magon rather arbitrarily simply because of his status as a Mexican folk hero. A little bit disappointing.

"On Monday November 4th, 2013 Nichole, a woman experiencing homelessness in Denver, went to court for a ticket issued to her for “unlawful camping.” She was given this ticket while lying on her blanket under the “pillars” in Civic Center park on a cold rainy afternoon. The description on the ticket said “unlawful camping”, but instead of citing the ordinance number for the urban camping ban, the officer cited 39-7a which is a park violation prohibiting sleep in or on a blanket in the park overnight. However, as noted, this ticket was issued in the afternoon, not at night when the park camping violation 39-7a would apply."

A nice little article which uses the current US federal "government shutdown" to clarify the meaning of "anarchism".

This is [should be] very embarrassing for McDonalds. The kicker is at the end: the whole "helpful" budget guide seems to be just a joint scam with Visa to fleece McDonalds employees a little bit more through payroll card fees.

Portland uses prisoners to help clear out a camp protesting the criminalization of homelessness.

(Interview with Egyptian anarchist discussing the military coup and Muslim Brotherhood.)