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My friend Laurie Jo Reynolds has been working tirelessly on a campaign to bring accountability to the treatment of prisoners at the TAMMS Penitentiary in Illinois. This supermax prison in Southern Illinois treats prisoners terribly engaging in behavior that only the cruelest most delusional people would not refer to as torture.

Some happy news in the activist front! INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, a women of color organization working to eliminate violence against women of color through direct action, critical dialog, and grassroots organizing just launched their new website and it looks hot! Now you can go check out organizing tools, videos, donation buttons, forums, and action items from this bad-ass organization! The website was designed by Tumis and looks great!

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Last night, a motley bunch of activists descended upon Democratic National Convention Headquarters. Spraying the building with green foam, people criticized the fraudulence of the Democratic Party's "green" pretensions.

Lately, I've been reading Salvadoran revolutionary poet Roque Dalton after encountering his essay "Poetry and Militancy in Latin America," in Art on the Line: Essays by Artists About the Point Where Their Art and Activism Intersect." After reading his poems in the bathroom,

This weekend, my friends at Recreate 68 are organizing The Great Easter Spy Camera Hunt this Saturday. This is a great opportunity to join those of us in Denver in identifying and mapping surveillance cameras that are being installed throughout our city. Having lived in Chicago, where the police put up cameras with flashing blue lights in poor neighborhoods with large numbers of people of color, it is clear that these cameras will be used to reinforce the violence of the state, protect the capitalist thieves in power, and defend murderers from the righteous indignation of the people. So, if you wanna, go get your hunt on and help Recreate 68 mark these cameras so we know our city well for the upcoming protests against the Democratic National Convention!

White narcissism is back with gusto. A week or so ago my friend Kelly and I were eating dinner and ranting about white people (of course both of us are white...this is what we do...). He introduced me to an incredible website, Stuff White People Like. If you haven't had a chance to check it, you've got to. Whether you're white or not, this site is all the rage amongst people stuck around various aspects of white culture.

For those anarchists out there looking to get organized around the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, Unconventional Action has just printed their paper outlining Anti-Authoritarian strategy from now till the upcoming elections!