Denver Communists

Protest Drip Café
Friday, Aug 7 from 6 - 9 pm MT
869 Santa Fe Dr, Denver

Bigots out! 🖕 Fundamentalists and racists, homophobes and Islamophobes, out of our art walk!

August is the largest First Friday celebration of the year with over 10,000 people in attendance last year. Santa Fe Drive will be closed to traffic from 6th to 11th Avenues and lined with creative vendors, businesses, foods and drinks, performances, and more.

Last month, Drip brought out the most loathsome of its supporters that we’ve encountered — white Christian nationalist sc*m preaching hate speech and calling for a religious war against Muslims. We can only hope Drip makes a strong showing this month, because all they ever do is make fools of themselves and reveal their fanatical bigotry to the art walk crowd.

🌈 Join the Denver Communists 🚩 Notes of Dissent 🎺 Bread & Roses Legal Center 🏴 the Trans Empowerment Alliance 🏳️‍⚧️ and our newest official sponsor, Trans Rescue Network ⚧️ for our monthly protest against the Drip Café, a coffeeshop run by a homophobic, fundamentalist Christian church.

Trans Rescue Network is a trans-led nonprofit focusing on helping vulnerable and unhoused trans folks.

Our monthly protests have evolved into a mix of a picket, an anti-fascist counter-demonstration, and a street party. We always have a good time, whether we are informing people about Drip’s homophobia and transphobia, exchanging sharp words with self-identified bigots, or shooting the s**t with each other and the First Friday Art Walk crowd.

Come through! Every first Friday until Drip closes down for good. (For more info, check out the anti-Drip slideshows pinned to our Instagram page.)

STUDY GROUP
Settler Colonialism: An Introduction by Sai Englert

Sundays, Aug 16 – Oct 4
12 noon ET / 10 am MT
on Zoom at bit.ly/firebrandzoom

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Aug 16: Introduction
Aug 23: Ch 1, Pt 1: to American Silver and the Rise of a New Global Order
Aug 30: Ch 1, Pt 2: from Rise of Anglo Settlement
Sept 6: Ch 2
Sept 13: Ch 3, Pt 1: to Bonded Labor – European and American
Sept 20: Ch 3, Pt 2: from Indigenous Land, Enslaved Labor
Sept 27: Ch 4
Oct 4: Ch 5

🔗 Download ebook at bit.ly/sai-englert

From the Palestinian struggle against Israeli Apartheid, to First Nations’ mass campaigns against pipeline construction in North America, Indigenous peoples are at the forefront of some of the crucial struggles of our age. Rich with their distinct histories and cultures, they are connected by the shared enemy they face: settler colonialism.

In this introduction to the subject, Sai Englert highlights the ways in which settler colonialism has and continues to shape our global economic and political order. From the rapacious accumulation of resources, land, and labour, through Indigenous dispossession and genocide, to the development of racism as a form of social control, settler colonialism is deeply connected to many of today’s social ills.

To understand settler colonialism as an ongoing process, is therefore also to start engaging with contemporary social movements and solidarity campaigns differently. It is to start seeing how distinct struggles for justice and liberation are intertwined.

Fifty rallied in La Raza Park and marched (without a permit 🥰) through Highland and Sunnyside on Saturday night to demand justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guerrero, ICE’s latest murder victims.

The action also brought attention to the shooting of an anti-ICE protestor in Aurora two days earlier. All love and solidarity to Emma Landis, who was shot in the foot by a GEO Group concentration camp guard, who was immediately arrested and charged with attempted murder.

The Stop ICE Terror action was organized by Brown Berets or Tepetlan, No Concentration Camps Colorado, Pulse, General Strike US, and The Youth Coalition.

📣 “Money for jobs and education, not for ICE and deportation!”

⚠️ New article by a DC member

Socialist strategy has long been split between reformism, the idea that the capitalist state can be taken over and incrementally made better, and revolution, the idea that the state must be smashed to create socialism. Marxists uphold the latter view. The state is not a neutral tool that can be employed for good, but an instrument of class rule.

📖 “For capital, the state is ‘a necessity for social order, the protection of private property and accumulation, defense in a competitive and violent world, negotiator of the terms of globalization, instrument of imperial expansion, and subsidizer,’ as US Marxist and labor historian Kim Moody wrote in On New Terrain.”

How Revolutionary Socialists View the Capitalist State - Firebrand Socialist strategy has long been split between reformism, the idea that the capitalist state can be taken over and incrementally made better, and revolution, the idea that the state must be smashed to create socialism. Marxists uphold the latter view. The state is not a neutral tool that can be empl...

We got a little press about Saturday ✊

“Saturday morning’s protest however, took place not as a planned event, but rather in response to a conservative livestreamer’s call for people to pack the coffee house to ‘defend’ it against the Denver Communists, who otherwise wouldn’t have had any reason to protest it on a Saturday. Activist Z Williams, of the Bread & Roses Legal Center, confirmed that the groups only showed up after right-wing content creator Corey Blair, who posts under the name Break The Chains Media, mentioned the Denver Communists in his posts promoting the morning’s event. ‘He called us out by name,’ said Williams, ‘so we came for a bonus protest.’”

Right-wing Rally for Anti-LGBTQ Coffee Shop Draws Protesters, Brass Band A conservative content creator's call for right-wing Christians to gather at the "ministry-driven" coffeehouse, Drip, which is regularly protested by LGBTQ activists, resulted in one of the shop's staff rebuking...

“Iran’s veto power over traffic in one of the main routes of international trade is the living, undeniable, and enduring symbol of the strategic defeat suffered by the United States. This means that American imperialism cannot simply withdraw from the conflict and pretend nothing happened.”

Clashes in the Strait of Hormuz: Why Can’t Trump Get Out of the War in Iran - Left Voice As the U.S. and Iran veer closer toward a full resumption of the war, Trump remains stuck in a conflict he can neither win nor walk away from.

(Same thing)

Nobody wins.