Update: According to the final numbers released from the Loveland Police Department, thirteen total arrests resulted from Occupy Denver’s attempt to shut down the area’s Walmart distribution center on Monday. Charges included obstructing a public roadway, hindering transportation and resisting arrest…
On Friday, the Denver Anarchist Black Cross, a collective that defends the rights of those involved in mass political and social movements, announced its intention to firmly remove itself from the arena of Occupy Denver. By the time of its decision, the twelve-person group had drawn together more than $15,000…
This week’s cover story subject, Occupy Denver protester and medical marijuana voice Corey Donahue, has cornered his role in Denver activism through strategies that are occasionally illegal and never boring. Say what you like about him, (Occupy Denver’s Twitter account called him out this morning), but the man stays busy…
Update: Westword recently received a copy of Kilmer, Lane & Newman’s updated CORA request from investigator Christopher Dodd. The document is blunt: In it, Dodd references the existence of an Occupy movement-related U.S. Conference of Mayors conference call involving Mayor Michael Hancock’s staff and asks very specifically for any details…
This week’s federal court hearing between Occupy Denver and the city ended in a denied injunction but much food for thought. Lead plaintiffs attorney David Lane called the decision a civil rights tragedy and said Judge Robert Blackburn “ignored most of the evidence we put in front of him.” In…
If you become confused by what you are about to read, you are not alone. It’s a story about confusion, about the misinformation that is so easy to spread through the Occupy movement, and it begins with a death that never happened. It ends, however, with a march: Last night,…
Update by Michael Roberts: Attorney David Lane doesn’t foresee appealing a court’s refusal to grant a temporary restraining order on behalf of Occupy Denver protesters, who claim their First Amendment rights have been systematically squelched. However, he has strong words for case overseer Judge Robert Blackburn, as well as the…
Following the announcement that Judge Robert Blackburn denied Occupy Denver’s request for a temporary restraining order against the City and County of Denver, Mayor Michael Hancock spoke — briefly — about the decision’s implications for the city. His take on the matter: Those implications are pretty darn good. Hancock calls…
Monday’s hearing in regard to Occupy Denver’s request for a temporary restraining order against the city and county is one indication of how far the movement has come in its short life span. In the little more than two months the movement has called Broadway its ideological home, the group…
RISE AGAINST at 1STBANK CENTER | 12/6/11 No matter what genre you ascribe to the band — punk, hardcore, plain vanilla rock from people who wear solid black — Rise Against has always been a bit of a chicken-or-the-angst situation. Would the live show be this good if the crowd…
The last time Corey Donahue landed in jail, it took his friends four days to decide to bail him out. Given the number of times they’ve had to make this decision over the two months and two weeks of Occupy Denver’s brief life downtown — four, to be exact —…
It takes a while for Kerri Kellerman to remember the last time she had health insurance, and she laughs before she answers: 1995. It doesn’t really matter, though. Outside of her life with Occupy Denver, the 38-year-old has not seen a doctor since 1992. Outside of the occupation, she hasn’t…
First lines are particularly important to Susan Orlean, which makes it that much tougher to start an article about someone who has written about almost everything herself. The New Yorker author’s most recent book, released more than ten years after her last extra-long-form non-fiction endeavor, The Orchid Thief, begins with…
Yesterday’s hearing for an injunction on behalf of Occupy Denver came with an unfair share of sarcasm and surprises, but one stood out far beyond the others: While one document from Officer James Henning suggested a plan to stay the current course until the occupation “wears itself out,” another found…
Today’s hearing over an Occupy Denver lawsuit targeting the city and county the group calls home began promptly with a look at the group’s history. Protester and photographer Tanner Spendley took the stand to get at the bleeding heart of why the plaintiff has filed an injunction to protect what…
Corey Donahue is a busy man. Click on his name and you will find a list of the Occupy Denver protester and medical marijuana activist’s most recent exploits, which this post will add to with restraining orders. A botched attempt to enter the State Capitol Tuesday afternoon resulted in his…
And so it begins. At a Monday hearing, Occupy Denver and the City and County of Denver will face off in a courtroom over attorney David Lane’s motion for an injunction against the enforcement of municipal ordinances seen as restricting the protest’s free speech — like, for instance, honks in…
The past two weeks have been a strange time in the lifespan of Occupy Denver. The absence of regular police altercations opens a different arena of political potential, and a strict legal response to donations and support has discouraged both while decreasing numbers. Some media outlets suggest giving up. But…
It began with a figurine. The story behind veteran New Yorker reporter Susan Orlean’s most recent venture into literary journalism is simple, though the book that resulted is a bit more in-depth. When Orlean was a child, her grandfather kept a toy version of canine TV star Rin Tin Tin…
It has been said that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but what about protest? Many of the most dedicated representatives of Occupy Denver have maintained some sort of residency with the movement on Broadway since its first month, and passions don’t just fly during Saturday rallies and the occasional…
Update: Two of the charges incurred by supporters of Occupy Denver in recent weeks were dropped over the weekend when the city attorney’s office decided against officially filing in both cases. The most notable of the two instances is that of Natalie Wyatt, who has since enlisted as a plaintiff…
It’s not a new tactic, but for some, it might be a surprising one: One of the ways the Denver Police Department has checked the identities of those faced with warrants for Occupy Denver is through online archival footage, including the average YouTube search. Previously anonymous protesters can be –…
