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Demonstration to protest fascism and white supremacist Jared Taylor’s appearance at CMU to be held Thurs., 3/27 @ 4:00 p.m., 12th & North

by Anne Landman • March 25, 2025 • 4 Comments

The Mesa County Democratic Socialists of America is promoting what they hope will be a massive, peaceful protest against fascism and white supremacist Jared Taylor’s appearance at Colorado Mesa University. Jared is scheduled to speak at 6:00 p.m. on March 27 in room 213 of the University Center.

Below is the press release about the event:

Denton County TX, mugshot of attorney Jason Lee Van Dyke, who will be at CMU. He was accused of interfering with a witness in a pending criminal case. He was suspended for six months, followed by one year of probation.

A large crowd is gathering on 12th and North at Colorado Mesa University corner on March 27th at 4:00 pm to march peacefully to the CMU University Center to protest against racism and Colorado Mesa University (CMU) President John Marshall’s decision to platform the avowed fascist and white supremacist Jared Taylor. Organizing for the protest is being led by the Mesa County Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (MC-DSA), in solidarity and in coalition with other grass-roots organizations, student groups and community members.

Jared Taylor in 2008 (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

MC-DSA, the student body and local community at large are strongly opposed to Jared Taylor being allowed to speak at CMU. “It’s up to everyday people to keep their communities safe,” says Nikoli Weir, CMU student and Organizer of MC-DSA. “MC-DSA firmly believes that white supremacy and fascism of any kind is dangerous to the freedom and well-being of the working class, and it is especially dangerous to minority groups. MC-DSA is dedicated to doing everything in its power to advance the interests of our community, and oppose fascism in all its forms.”

Isabel De La Canal, CMU student and Co-Chair of MC-DSA, says that CMU’s choice to allow Jared Taylor to speak on campus is hypocritical. “Every school day, I walk up and down the steps of Houston Hall, reading CMU’s messages preaching love, dignity, and courage— most strikingly, ‘use power for good.’ This is the same university that grants white supremacists platforms to spew their hatred. A university is an institution of learning. CMU claims that it wants to model ‘the world we want to create.’ Is this truly the world we want to create? To plaster these words on its walls while allowing white supremacy within them is not just hypocrisy, it is something far worse.”

Kylie Mayfield, CMU student and MC-DSA member, says that she is abhorred by John Marshall’s decision. “I am shocked and disappointed with CMU’s administration. It is ludicrous to me that John Marshall justifies this as free speech, as Jared Taylor’s rhetoric is hateful and is intended to provoke violence.”

MC-DSA is working with local community based organizations to oppose Jared Taylor, who is coming to our town to sow division and breed hatred. MC-DSA wants our community to be strong and resilient in the face of the oncoming wave of fascist agitators and disruptors.

Alongside Jared Taylor, Texas based Attorney Jason Lee Van Dyke is also in town. He represents the Western Culture Club, the student organization responsible for sending out the initial invitation to Taylor. According to the Criterion, CMU’s student newspaper, Van Dyke is also the one who sponsors the event financially. Van Dyke has a long history of representing right-wing extremist organizations such as Patriot Front, who have in the past committed violent acts against peaceful protestors.

Colorado Mesa University President John Marshall poses, smiling, with Lauren Boebert, who supported the violent January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol

“Taylor and Van Dyke are here to disrupt our peaceful town and spread hatred and division, bringing white supremacist organizations here on the 27th to cause chaos and violence,” says Nikoli Weir. “Our community cannot let that happen. We must unite around our shared interests as working class people and come together peacefully to oppose Jared Taylor and white supremacy.”

“I am peacefully marching because we are all equal,” says community member and concerned citizen Nick Allan. “The racism and segregation supported by Jared Taylor should have no place in our city, state, nation or world.”

MC-DSA brings together in solidarity the working class community of Grand Junction to oppose fascism and hatred and fosters a multicultural and multiracial socialist movement that fights for the common people against fascists and the billionaire elites they represent.

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Where: 12th and North, CMU Corner, Grand Junction, CO (North West)

When: Thursday, March 27, 4:00 pm

Who: MC-DSA

What: Protest and March against fascism, Jared Taylor, and CMU President John Marshall’s choice to allow Taylor to speak on campus.

How: Bring signs, drums, noise makers, water, snacks and your humanity

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CMU fostering a climate of hate

by Anne Landman • March 7, 2025 • 14 Comments

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Colorado Mesa University’s Western Culture Club is hosting an out-and-out white Supremacist as a speaker on campus later in March. (Time and date erased because we don’t platform nazis).

A new campus club, the “Western Culture Club,” appeared on campus in early March promoting a talk by Jared Taylor to be held at Colorado Mesa University (CMU) later in March. Taylor is an avowed white supremacist and author, and this is just the latest escalation by bigots on campus, seemingly with the blessing of the CMU administration.

When students started a new semester at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction on January 20th, the same day Trump took office, the campus seemed different.

Emboldened by the inauguration of an openly racist and openly fascistic president, racist students on the campus have begun a now months-long sticker campaign. The stickers call on students to fulfill “civic duty” to “report any and all illegal aliens” to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

Fact-checking convicted felon, adjudicated sexual abuser and President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress on 3/4/25

by Anne Landman • March 5, 2025 • 5 Comments

Donald Trump flat-out lied to Congress and Americans last night in his talk to Congress and the country. Here are some of the lies, fact-checked immediately after the speech by political commentator Rachel Maddow.

Here is more vetting of Trump’s lies by the New York Times.

Here is more fact-checking of Trump’s lies by CBS News.

More checking of Trump’s lies by ABC News/Politifact.

The Guardian: “Trump’s talk was littered with false claims he’s been corrected on but continued to repeat.”

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy publicly bullied and berated over his war time clothing at White House visit

by Anne Landman • March 3, 2025 • 17 Comments

At a shameful White House meeting last week between convicted felon/adjudicated sexual abuser President Trump and his #2, JD Vance, Trump and Vance bullied and yelled at Ukrainian President Zelensky in a televised display of anger and resentment toward the leader of a democratic country that’s been invaded by Russia. Beyond this, as bad as the made-for-Russia meeting already was, Brian Glenn, White House correspondent for the right-wing cable channel Real America’s Voice, chimed in and berated Zelenskyy over his war time clothing, to the delight of Trump’s cabinet. You can see the harassment of Zelenskyy over his war time attire playing out in the clip above.

Trump’s illegal, unappointed “co-president,” billionaire Elon Musk, dominates a cabinet meeting at the White House on 2/26/25 wearing a baseball cap and T-shirt. No one publicly criticized his attire.

Brian Glenn, who attacked Zelesnkyy over his clothes, is the boyfriend of right-wing firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, and one of the hand-picked reporters the White House has chosen under its new policy of choosing the press pool reporters who will cover them favorably and excluding reporters they think won’t cover them favorably — a classic authoritarian move to assure a positive spin on all news coverage of the regime.

CD-3 Rep. Jeff Hurd skips G.J. town hall meeting where over 400 constituents waited anxiously to hear from him

by Anne Landman • February 22, 2025 • 17 Comments

A standing room-only crowd packed into the First Congregational Church for a town hall meeting with CD-3 House Rep. Jeff Hurd (R), who failed to show up to the meeting.

Over 400 people packed a town hall meeting held at the First Congregational Church at 5th and Kennedy in Grand Junction for 3rd CDHouse Rep. Jeff Hurd (R) at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, February 22, 2025, but Rep. Hurd failed to show. Some attendees came from as far as Montrose and some drove as much as 3 hours to attend the meeting.

Four western slope chapters Indivisible (Indivisible Grand Junction, Indivisible Montrose, Mountain Action Indivisible (Carbondale) and Indivisible North Fork) organized the meeting out of a sense of urgency because of the rapid-fire destructive actions Trump and Musk have been taking that are throwing thousands of Americans out of work, damaging the economy and eroding global trust in America and its longstanding international alliances.

Organizers notified Hurd about the meeting and sent him multiple invitations through phone calls, emails, and through other means within the last four days, but Hurd did not respond or show up.

By the time the meeting was held, 477 people had registered to attend.

Multiple Republican senators break from Trump’s views on Putin, Ukraine War

by Anne Landman • February 20, 2025 • 10 Comments

In a seismic shift against Trump’s favorable views of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump’s overt lie that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is “a dictator,” GOP Senators Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi) and John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) publicly spoke out against Trump’s views.

Senator Wicker, the Ranking Member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, told a reporter that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a criminal who is not to be trusted in peace negotiations about Russia’s war on Ukraine.

When asked about the way the U.S. conducted peace negotiations with Russia in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and specifically how the U.S. excluded Ukraine and America’s NATO allies from the talks, Senator Wicker said Ukrainians should “definitely” be at the table in any peace negotiations, and European interests should be “considered and carefully weighed.”

When Sen. Wicker was asked if Putin can be trusted in peace negotiations, Wicker answered,

“No. Putin is a war criminal and should be in jail for the rest of his life, if not executed.”

“Not My President Day” brings out hundreds of area residents to protest Trump’s authoritarian regime

by Anne Landman • February 17, 2025 • 14 Comments

A crowd of about 350 people turned out at noon today to loudly protest the ongoing coup of the federal government by convicted felon, adjudicated sexual abuser and President Donald Trump and his unelected provocateur Elon Musk, the richest billionaire on Earth who purchased the ability to use Trump’s presidency for himself with a $250 million donation to Trump’s presidential campaign. Trump and Musk have been in almost continuous violation of the U.S. Constitution and U.S. laws since Trump was inaugurated January 20. The two have been working together quickly to destroy entire federal agencies that Americans rely on for essential services, that help starving and sick people and that distribute foreign aid, and they’ve been working to hobble the federal government’s ability to keep U.S. citizens safe in the air, safe from financial fraud and grift, and safe from attacks on U.S. soil.