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PANHANDLING, PARKS, AND THE BOOGERS
GENTRIFICATION: CRIMINALIZATION OF —MUSIC REVIEW—
HOMELESSNESS IN GRAND JUNCTION H ey
kids!
Get
Little Lamb and the Wheels on the Bus, as
well as original work, including Eat Your
I
Vegetables and I Don’t Need to be Worried.
ready to rock Inspired by the Ramones, The
n late June of 2009, the City of Grand When TRP talked to the Parks and out with your
Junction stepped up its continued Boogers aim to introduce punk rock music
Rec department they tossed us around blocks out! to kids in a family friendly way. The
criminalization of the homeless the phone network like a hot potato, but The Boogers
by trying to pass two “emergency” Boogers were created by developmental
we got some interesting information. are here! psychologist and musician Paul Crowe
ordinances targeted at ‘flyin’ a sign.’ The “Council must of designated Their debut
city tried to sneak these measures through (aka Crusty Booger), and entertain children
it as a median,” said Parks and album, Road and adults with fun music that isn’t lame.
as emergency ordinances; they had to pass Rec employee Ron Felps. “It’s still to Rock, was
unanimously, but could by-pass the normal My favorite? Their version of The
part of our regular maintenance.” the 2009 Big Rock Candy Mountain. Peanut Butter
process. The city released the text of the “I have very little information,” said National
ordinances the Friday before Country and Jelly gets two thumbs up from my
Parks and Rec employee Mike Vendegna. Parenting Publications Award GOLD two year old son. Check out http://www.
Jam, the area’s largest annual event, and He did say that the sign, picnic table and Winner. It features fast and fun twists on
held the hearing the following Monday. meet-the-boogers.com/index.html for more
trash can were removed from the park just children’s favorites, such as Mary had a about this refreshing, inspiring band.•
The homeless community, and many in the last couple of weeks. “It was never
from the broader community, came to the truly a park,” said Vendegna. He directed
City Council meeting to oppose the bill. The us to the City Clerk and Recorder’s office “WINTER WATCH” FROM PAGE THREE
crowd was well over one hundred people for information on who decided to change for anyone with a desire to understand
strong. Even the ACLU sent an opinion the park’s designation, but the City Clerk of constitutional the tactics of contemporary resistance.
letter opposing the ordinances. Both bills never returned our repeated phone calls. rights through the
were struck down, but were sent back to “There wasn’t any authorization,” said introduction of •Persepolis
committee for City of Grand supranationalistic Based upon the
heavy revision. Junction Public monetary systems graphic novel of the
The revised Relations person and intergovern- same name by Marjane
bill banned Sam Rainguet. mentalism, is Satrapi, who co-
“soliciting in Rainguet said a must see for wrote co-directs the
medians,” but also that after the City anyone interested in animated feature with
prohibited anyone passed the ‘median combating globalism Vincent Paronnaud,
being in a median ordinance’ the city and destroying the this enchanting
for any reason. looked at certain hierarchies that see coming-of-age tale
This measure was parks to see if us as nothing more than subservient proles. not only charts the
eventually put into they were parks or personal growth of the
law on October medians. Raignuet •No Direction Home charming protagonist
2nd. The first said that Colorado Not only does Martin Scorsese succeed at as she searches for her identity through
arrest was made West Park was creating one of the most spellbinding depictions disparate ideologies and ideals, it gives
22 days later. John never actually of the man who is arguably the greatest living the viewer a glimpse into Iran during the
Martinez was The star is the location of Colorado West Park/Median designated as a American songwriter, last few decades that many of us would
‘flyin’ a sign’ at a park, and so no he also gives the viewer never have otherwise had access to. This
place know as the ‘wedge,’ at the intersection official re-designation was needed. When unmatched portraits is one of those flicks that evaluates the
of First Street and Grand Avenue. The pressed about who ordered the sign, picnic of the depression-era differences between us in order to better
‘wedge’ is also known as Colorado table and trash can removed, Rainguet folk musicians that so display the qualities we all, as humans, share.
West Park. But how is a park a median? said “I don’t know,” and promised to get deeply influenced Bob
Sometime in October, the park sign, back with the answer, which she never did. Dylan and the 1960s. •The Weather Underground
picnic bench and trash can were removed and There are other parks in town that aren’t After watching this Chronicling the exploits of one of the
the park became a median. Poof, overnight, really parks and are more like a median, but film you may feel like most effective radical groups of the sixties
gone. The City Manager’s office told TRP they still remain parks. The main reason is you’ve just been gifted and seventies, The Weather Underground
that changing a park to a median “would have that people don’t panhandle at those parks. with all the beauty (originally The Weathermen, taken from Bob
to be something City Council decided.” Yet, It’s vindictive. The ordinance lost, that exists in the USA. Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues”)
no mention of changing Colorado West Park then they came back with a watered down Sam Green and Bill Siegel’s doc is as thrilling
to a median are in the Council’s minutes. ordinance that banned people from being •Breaking the Spell and inspiring as it is informative. If you want
Granted the park was never much of in medians, and then they get rid of an This documentary about the 1999 WTO to see what a life time of dedication to the
a park, considering it was jammed in an entire city park just to keep a few people convergence in Seattle is the second film on betterment of the human race looks like, turn
5-way intersection. It was probably first from ‘flying a sign’ on one corner. This Crimethinc.’s excellent Guerilla Film Series, off that bullshit about Barack Obama (who
listed as a park to create an exaggerated is just a little battle in a war the city Volume 1, which includes, along with five underwent a political crisis for affiliating
community-image in order to get has been waging to push the poor and short films, two other awesome feature length with former member Bill Ayers) and check
businesses to relocate to Grand Junction. homeless out of sight and out of the city.• docs: Pickaxe, about the Cascadia Free State, out some folks who were willing to not
and The Miami Model, about the 2003 FTAA only talk the talk, but do what politicians
protests. The entire collection is inimitable seem incapable of, that is, walk the walk. •
COINTELPRO: BLACK PANTHER TOP TEN WINTER WATCH LIST
T
COLORING BOOK
he FBI’s COINTELPRO (Counter
Intelligence Program) has a dark and
a coloring book purportedly from the Black
Panthers but actually created by the FBI in
W inter can be bleak. With cold weather,
gray skies, and seasonal depression, it’s
often a hard time for many folks to find
inspiration or motivation to pursue the things
after all, they’re only
trying to save you
money. Fuck Mike
Duke, H. Lee Scott,
sordid history spanning three decades order to delegitimize the Black Nationalist
and four presidential administrations (1956- that seemed so natural and exciting during the S. Robson Walton,
organization. The coloring book was warmer months. But winter is also a great Sam Walton and
1971). It was a covert program of domestic mass mailed throughout the United States
terrorism and state sanctioned oppression time to regather and edify yourself, to solidify every other vampire
and especially to white communities. your ideas and develop plans for pursuing at the top of this
against popular movements in the United For brief overview on the history of
States. Tactics ranged from illegal wire them, to go into your cave only to reemerge totem pole of toilet
COINTELPRO read the report presented by in the spring wiser and more competent. Here paper and disposable
tapping to the assassination of Freddy Paul Wolf to the U.N. High Commissioner
Hampton, a member of the Black Panthers. are ten films to explore during the months electronics for taking
of Human Rights: http://www.icdc.com/ of frost that will hopefully assist you in this: advantage of the poor
The FBI under COINTELPRO sent Martin ~paulwolf/cointelpro/coinwcar3.htm•
Luther King Jr. death across the globe while
threats, sabotaged •Zeitgeist touting themselves as some sort of beneficent,
the Socialist Workers In this film, producer/writer/director/ family oriented supply store that just happened
Party, used their everythingelse Peter Joseph displays the ways to become the largest economy in the world!
influence to terminate in which religion, politics, and money have
“communist” been used to control human kind for, oh, say, •The Devil Came on Horseback
professors from the last few millennia. I find the first part in This heartbreaking documentary takes
universities, which Joseph reveals the astrological and the viewer through the six month long journey
infiltrated and mythological correlations that have arisen of US military observer Brian Steidle in
disrupted student between most of the world’s major religions Darfur, Sudan, as he watches government
groups, undermined throughout the ages to be exceptionally hired thugs, the Janjaweed, torture and
the civil rights informative, to the point of making the destroy village after village of civilians. It
movement, incited majority of belief systems based on hierarchical then follows him as he returns home to be
gang warfare empire’s of magical immortal deities even greeted by glad-hand politicians and angry
and many other more laughable than they already are. Sudanese attaches accusing him of having
nefarious and illegal made the whole thing up. The tragedy here
activities. To the •Manufacturing Consent:Noam Chomsky is not only the genocide being carried out
right is a page from and the Media against a people by it’s own government,
This film but, as with Rwanda, the apathetic response
is not only a great of those countries with the means to stop it.
introduction to the
Activist Calendar
person many have •DJ Spooky’s Rebirth of a Nation
called the most DJ Spooky
important intellectual remixes D.W.
of the 20th century, it Griffith’s Birth of a
is also an in depth look Nation- the first film
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March for No More Deaths On The Streets of Grand Junction
On Sunday December
20th, 2009 Housing First!
No More Deaths! marched
for no more deaths on
the streets of Grand
Junction, from Whitman
to Hawthorne park, to the
Coalition for the Homeless’
annual memorial for those
who have lost their lives
on the streets in our city.
HF!NMD! says we should
be sad and angry, and there
is no more time to ignore
the issue, or simply police it
away. Housed and houseless
folks marched to remember
their friends who have lost
their lives on the streets.
Housing First! No More
Deaths! took 5th Street by
storm, carying crosses with
the names of loved ones who
have lost their lives on the
streets of Grand Junction.