Email Author Kelsey Whipple

2011 Stories by Kelsey Whipple

• Occupy Denver: Police start ticketing drivers who stop to donate in front of Civic Center Park

  published Nov 14, 2011

  To give to Occupy Denver, a movement that depends considerably upon large and frequent donations, you have several options. The easiest is simply to drive by the occupation between 14th and Colfax on ... More >>

• Occupy Denver's legal team explores precedents regarding tents and symbolic speech

  published Nov 14, 2011

  With 23 arrests related to Occupy Denver this weekend, the group's legal team is constantly adapting. This includes a new decision to request that arrestees go through the public defender's office ins... More >>

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  Occupy Denver: Three new charges last night include triple arrestee Corey Donahue

  published Nov 14, 2011

  In the wake of twenty new Occupy Denver arrests made Saturday, three more were added to that list when Civic Center Park grew tense again last night. During an attempt to remove a newly established ta... More >>

• Occupy Denver: Highest bond rate yet, photojournalist among 20 arrested

  published Nov 13, 2011

  Last night's altercation between police and protesters at Occupy Denver ended with as many as twenty arrests, from the now-typical charges of disobeying a lawful order and obstructing a passageway to ... More >>

• Occupy Denver: Large police presence moves in on three tents with pepper spray and arrests

  published Nov 12, 2011

  Update, 8:44 p.m. November 12: According to Occupy Denver's website, sixteen arrests have been confirmed so far. The group remains mobilized downtown. While both Civic Center Park and Lincoln Park hav... More >>

• Pretty Is As Pretty Does

  published November 3, 2011

  In the moments between the merciless laughter that his prose induces and the abdominal pain that follows, you occasionally question how David... More >>

• Occupy Denver profile: Meet Fort Love, the occupation's first neighborhood in Lincoln Park

  published Nov 11, 2011

  Yesterday morning, 22 people woke up sweating against each other in the same Occupy Denver fort. The situation was better than that one time they forgot to build in ventilation and woke up without air... More >>

• Occupy Denver: Does police warning to remove sidewalk encumbrances hint at crackdownr

  published Nov 11, 2011

  Last night, Occupy Denver sleepers were greeted around midnight by police officers who asked them to clear the sidewalks. Although a few people did so, the group as a whole remained in the same space,... More >>

• Occupy Denver: Fake Shelby, occupiers' dog leader, tweets about sex and weed

  published Nov 11, 2011

  For all intents and purposes, Shelby, Occupy Denver's new canine leader, appears to be a polite and demure, if strangely food-focused, politician. The three-and-a-half-year-old will lead the group's m... More >>

• Occupy Denver profile: Kenny White moves from the Colorado Art Institute to the street

  published Nov 10, 2011

  Today is a warmer one than the last few, but it's still a little chilly for bare feet. Kenny White missed that memo. Seated on the sidewalk in front of Lincoln Park, the nineteen-year-old occupation s... More >>

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  A blow-up doll and a dildo: What Pick Up America found while cleaning Colorado's streets

  published Nov 10, 2011

  Greg Katski describes the most memorable trash he's picked up while visiting Colorado in two words: "drunken and kinky." One of six members of Pick Up America, a group devoted to collecting trash acro... More >>

• Occupy Denver: Ideological split spurs idea for Liberate Denver to fight oppression

  published Nov 10, 2011

  Recent divisions inside Occupy Denver have led to the ideological creation of Liberate Denver, a related but completely separate entity much like the Thunderdome. Although the idea has spread through ... More >>

• Occupy Denver: Protesters deliver pizza to Capitol, continue to occupy governor's office

  published Nov 09, 2011

  As part of their plan to regularly occupy the governor's office, a small group of Occupy Denver protesters made a second trip to the Capitol today. About ten people have rotated in and out of the buil... More >>

• Occupy Denver has a new mailbox -- but city, postal service aren't sure if it's legal

  published Nov 09, 2011

  One of the main tricks of any newly developing occupation movement lies in making it as permanent as possible. This tactic includes, but is not limited to, occupying the same park for more than a mont... More >>

• Occupy Denver profile: David "Beard" focuses on a future he might never see

  published Nov 09, 2011

  Whether they know it or not, David "Beard" has spent the last month sleeping in Civic Center Park for the kids. Although he describes the time as a "giant, unorganized camping trip," he keeps coming b... More >>

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  Occupy Denver: Watch the election of the local movement's canine leader, Shelby (VIDEO)

  published Nov 09, 2011

  Occupy Denver's Shelby, a Border Collie mix who's the first official (and only canine) leader of an occupation movement, has already achieved an Internet milestone -- a post in Gawker. Nonetheless, he... More >>

• Occupy Denver protesters want their dog-and-leader to meet with Governor Hickenlooper

  published Nov 08, 2011

  This afternoon was a busy one for a handful of Occupy Denver participants, eleven of whom took the capitol by surprise around 11:30 a.m. The group, organized by Thunderdome protester Corey Donahue, pl... More >>

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  The 10 best David Sedaris quotes from last night's lecture, presented free of context

  published Nov 08, 2011

  David Sedaris is a tiny man with a huge life. Truly, the man is pretty darn small, and though his voice sounds like that of a timid librarian, it packs a biting combination of charm and painful humor ... More >>

• Occupy Denver: ACLU investigating the seizure of personal property during most recent raid

  published Nov 08, 2011

  One week after the Colorado ACLU launched an investigation into the constitutionality of police action at Occupy Denver, the group has yet to receive the records it requested from the Denver Police De... More >>

• Occupy Denver: Read what the 99 percent would change about the world, courtesy of Twitter

  published Nov 07, 2011

  If you're not paying attention to Occupy Denver news on Twitter, you're missing some of the strongest and most readily available social commentary on the movement. (You're also, of course, missing a g... More >>

• Occupy Denver ends a week of peace with nonviolence committee and safety guidelines

  published Nov 07, 2011

  Today concludes the first week without substantial police interaction for Occupy Denver in recent memory. While the previous week marked five hospitalizations, one arrest inside an igloo, one arrest ... More >>

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  Occupy Denver elects a new leader: Shelby, a Border Collie mix

  published Nov 07, 2011

  At three and a half years old, Shelby is too young to vote but not to be voted for. Last night, she almost ruined her greatest accomplishment to date when, during announcements at Occupy Denver's 7 p.... More >>

• Review: Hollywood Undead at the Fillmore Auditorium, with Asking Alexandria, 11/4/11

  published Nov 05, 2011

  HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD at the FILLMORE | 11/4/11What the Fillmore really means by "all-ages show" is this: At least one shirtless 17-year-old will approach you -- slowly, so as not to startle you -- and ask... More >>

• Occupy Denver profile: Jim Andresen is the loudest person in Civic Center Park

  published Nov 04, 2011

  Everyone at Occupy Denver has a story, but James Andresen's might well be the loudest. The animated 58-year-old doesn't share his story as much as he shouts it, a habit developed after a lifetime of w... More >>

• Occupy Denver: Denver Area Labor Federation backs the group with its 50,000 members

  published Nov 04, 2011

  John Fleck is a blunt man. When he says he's seen social inequality for more than twenty years, he means it. Fleck has been a labor union rep for the same amount of time, which makes him particularly ... More >>