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A HANDBOOK ON
COLLECTIVE PROCESS GONE
AWRY
Disunion
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—BOOK REVIEW— MEDICAL NUMBER OF POWER TO THE PEOPLE
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MARIJUANA MEDICAL
or those of us who have been involved, DISPENSARIES MARIJUANA FEBRUARY 2010 VOL. 8 NO. 2
will be involved or have been turned in the Grand DISPENSARIES
off by collectives, this 127-page book Valley in 2010: in the Grand
26 Valley in 2008:
is a must read. Come Hell or High Water a 0
Handbook on Collective Process Gone Awry, NUMBER OF UNITY AND REPRESSION:
by Delfina Vannucci and Richard Singer,
with the help of AK Press, outlines the good
ARRESTEES
at the 1/16 anti-Arpaio
NUMBER OF GRAND
JURY CASES
PHOENIX PD AND THE DO@ BLOC
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the bad and the ugly, with most focus on march in Phoenix: against Arpaio currently
the bad and the ugly trials and tribulations, 5 in federal court: anuary 16th saw an unprecedented target people based on race and many who
of participating in a collective. The book, 1 level of unity between diverse groups, are here legally are swept up in the raids and
divided into three sections, includes topics PERCENT OF fighting diverse struggles, who came locked up in his notoriously punitive jails.
COLORADO PERCENT INCREASE together for a march against the racist Others joining the bloc wanted to
like truth, kindness, power-sharing, pariahs, of Colorado’s population
PRISONERS Sheriff of Maricopa County, Joe Arpaio. broaden the debate. In Arizona 14,000 Dine’
character assassinations, skepticism, respect in private prisons : since 1980:
for differences, due process, free speech, 24 59 The march was organized by people (Navajo) face mass forced relocation
banning and the like. It can be a painful read immigrant rights groups to bring attention so that multinational corporations, such as
for those of us who have behaved poorly in NUMBER OF PERCENT INCREASE to Arpaio’s civil rights abuses, racial Peabody Coal, can continue to rape the
collective situations; read this just to check LAWSUITS FILED of Colorado’s prison profiling, and his cooperation with land of its natural resources. The Tohono
yourself. But this can be an uplifting read against Sheriff Arpaio population since 1980: Immigration Customs Enforcement. Over O’odham people have had their lands stolen
to see you might be doing or have dealt 2004-Nov.2007: 604 20,000 people participated in the march. and now face militarized border patrols and
with issues well; read this to congratulate 2150 Arpaio border walls
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yourself. Most readers will experience NUMBER OF ISSUES FAMILIES ON
both humiliation and humility. Whether PUBLISHED WAITING LISTS infamous for reservation,
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offers ideas and warnings on the ins-and- 2400 Immigrant American
outs, the ups-and-downs of the collective rights groups border. Many
process. With hilarious comics courtesy of * Sources for the State of Disunion can be found at have likened Arizona
Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness (www. www.gjredpill.org Arpaio to Bull anarchists
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org (on Collective, with the aim of publishing stories and ideas and, now, Photo credit: Phoenix Class War Council bloc. The
sale right that the mainstream media won’t cover. It is distributed engaging in logic of
now for free, collects no advertising, and is completely staffed by sweeps through Latino neighborhoods in an capitalism and brute force underlies the
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FEAR AND CANNIBIS IN GRAND JUNCTION “HONDURAS” FROM PAGE FIVE company shipped workers from the mines
to the streets in order to march in pro-coup
I
As though all has returned to normal, the state demonstrations. In a similar vein, the golpe
could start this article detailing my them during the interview and went raw. proceeds to lay the environment to waste. The reversed Zelaya’s actions sending military
chronic back pain, my addiction current government annihilated a bill just units into the forests to fight illegal logging,
to Vicodin, or other jumping TRP: What’s your name? days away from Zelaya’s signature, granting moving the army into the cities to battle seas
off points. A lot of it is Oprah/Dr. land to 300,000 small farmers engaged in a of peaceful protesters. An activist in the anti-
Phil shit and is best avoided. I’ll start GD: Gregg Davis 40 year struggle for land rights. The golpe logging campaign, the priest Tamayo, received
my article, instead, with me and my also destroyed the free zone, which Zelaya death threats from timber giant Sansone,
two-and-one-half inch medical record TRP: Where does all the reefer come instated to direct taxes from tourism to while Micheletti’s government revoked his
waiting in the marijuana doctor’s office. from? local municipalities, diverting money from citizenship and ordered his deportation.
The doctor fl ipped silently through my anti-poaching and alternative livelihood Goldcorp continues to work in the nation
record for several minutes, then he started GD: It’s all grown in Colorado. programs for fishers to the military. Tourist of Guatemala to persecute hundreds of
out with the questions. They were pointed cruises along with overfishing destroys the Mayan Mam indigenous miners demanding
and personal, but what do you expect? This TRP: “Mountain grown for a better stone” coral reef and pollutes the water as Honduras human rights, and its actions in Honduras
guy had the power to turn me from being I guess. What all varieties do you have? continues the global march to ecocide. have only just begun. The timber industry,
a pot-smoking common criminal into a During the most heady days of resistance, the whether legal or illegal, is backed by the
respectable medical marijuana patient. GD: I’ve got ten sativas and twelve indicas. government set up a cyanide canon pointed at current government, and devastates the
The whole thing happened kind Sativa is more of a light, heady buzz. Indica an elementary school as a warning, an ironic nation with impunity. The golpe appears
of quickly. The next thing I knew, he is strong in the body, good for chronic statement considering that cyanide from complete. However, the people continue to
was handing me my temporary medical pain. open-pit, cyanide leach mines has poisoned resist. Activists are on speaking tours of the
marijuana registry paperwork. No throat the land and people for years, meeting the US and Canada to spread information about
swabs, no x-rays, no fi nger in the butt. TRP: What do people come in for? critical eye of Zelaya just before the golpe. the golpe’s environmental destruction and
Thank God for small favors, I was legal Goldcorp states intentions of pulling out the resistance movement against the current
in a moment; no waiting period. The GD: Mostly chronic pain, but also MS, of Honduras completely now, but during regime. Contact info@rightsaction.org or
doctor reminded me that I should keep cancer, AIDS, etc. the military clamp down, the Canadian johanneswilm@gmail.com for more info.•
the temporary license on me at all times.
“But I’m medical marijuana” doesn’t TRP: I noticed you are handicap
go far without showing your license.
I literally live across the street from
accessible.
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a dispensary, so the choice was easy.
It was Mesa Alternative Health and
Wellness, on the corner of 6th and Grand.
I was a bit nervous because I didn’t know
GD: Yeah, we’ve got seven or eight patients
in chairs.
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their homes. It’s also the same agents of
ack was charged with cultivation of by simply walking away from the facility. capitalism that carry out the deportations/
marijuana in 2000 and sentenced to 2 Several months later, he was recaptured evictions/relocations, namely the police.
years of community corrections. That and given 4 years for the escape, plus his This Red Piller felt privileged
was 9 years ago, and it will be the year 2012 remainder on the original charge for a total to march in solidarity with such a
before he is released from prison (if he serves his of five years. He served 3 of those 5 years bloc, which represents the unity of
full sentence), and 2017 before his parole ends. before being paroled into homelessness in diverse people resisting state power.
Jack’s story is not uncommon. It 2004. Colorado is one of only a handful of Immediately, the bloc encountered
illustrates the failure of sentencing laws states with mandatory parole, and while police harassment and violence. It was
meant to keep Jack and others like him, Jack’s original charges carried one year apparent that the Phoenix police had become Police infiltrators try to arrest a marcher
mostly non-violent offenders whose of mandatory parole, his new charge of aware of this unity, and the state, fearful of Photo credit: AZ Indymedia
crimes were drug and alcohol related, out escape carried 3 years of mandatory parole. the people standing together, felt a need to
repress us in an attempt to destroy our unity. pepper-spraying everyone, including small
of prison and promote rehabilitation over Given Jack’s prior history, he was children. I got pepper sprayed at close range
incarceration. Instead, as Jack illustrates, placed in Intensive Supervised Parole, or ISP, Despite violent attacks by the police, and
their attempts to arrest targeted activists, when I tried to prevent people from being
they have often done the opposite of what the which monitors released felons considered to trampled by the officer’s horse. I turned
legislature intended, and have left thousands be at ‘high risk of re-offending’ using ankle the bloc stayed calm and didn’t react, except
to prevent people from being arrested. The to get away from the ensuing melee and
of prisoners like Jack in the criminal justice bracelets and GPS monitoring systems. An ran blindly
system—sometimes for decades—for petty offender that removes the ankle monitor can Phoenix PD
flanked the into a line of
offenses. With the Colorado State Legislature be charged with escape, a charge that can be riot cops. I
expected to address the issue of sentencing enhanced under Colorado’s habitual offender march with
bicycles headed to the
reform later this year, many prisoners hope statute to 4 times the statutory maximum. That left, toward
that stories like Jack’s prompt the state ultimately is what happened to Jack, a 50 year and horses,
occasionally the rest of
legislators to rethink the ‘escape’ statutes. old man who, by his own admission, “likes to the 20,000-
No one here in the prison really expects drink” and “doesn’t like to be told what to do”. punching
marchers in person
the legislature to decriminalize escape. The Colorado Criminal Justice Reform march and
But the large and growing number of cases Coalition notes in its quarterly newsletter, the the face and
ramming knelt down
like Jack’s point out what’s wrong with the Colorado Justice Report, Fall 2009 edition, to begin
existing law. Sentenced in 2000 to serve in that while 1/4th of all prisoners will parole people
with their washing the
one of the state’s 34 community correctional into homelessness, only $2 million will be pepper spray
facilities (aka halfway houses), Jack escaped bicycles.
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approached eyes, when
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the County suddenly one
Jail, police of the riot
in full riot A police officer takes a random punch at a marcher. cops sprayed
gear lined Photo credit: AZ Indymedia me at close
either side range with
Every Tuesday • 1:30PM February 11th-15th • 2010
of the march. Suddenly, the police tried more pepper spray and told me to move.
Housing First! No More Deaths! meets to devise Earth First! Organizers Conference/Winter Rendezvous
Mountains of Santa Barbara to grab a middle-aged indigenous woman It was an ambush; they had planned on
creative grassroots solutions to homelessness, and attacking our group well ahead of time.
prevent homeless related deaths. www.2010oc.com from the crowd. Then a female officer rode
Whitman Park her horse into the middle of the crowd, The police made ridiculous statements
about how the crowd attacked them
Friday, February 19th • 4-8PM
EVERY TUESDAY & SATURDAY • 4:00PM and mainstream media repeated these
Solidarity Not Charity meets at Whitman Park to serve unsubstantiated claims. Later photographic
Open House celebration for the regional office opening free food for free people.
for various Immigrants rights groups. and video evidence surfaced that proved
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