Category: Stories
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ICE Makes Second Known Boulder Detention
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made its second known detention in Boulder on September 30, at 9:22 a.m. The detention happened while the man was loading materials onto his truck at Conestoga St and Arapahoe Ave, as reported by the Colorado Rapid Response Network (CORRN). The man was stopped and questioned by ICE agents and…
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Win for student workers? New leave policy approved by Regents
Sam Cruse is an undergraduate student worker at Norlin Library. He and his coworkers work 12 hours a week sorting and returning books to shelves, finding books that students request and cleaning up the library. Prior to a new policy change, vacation leave wasn’t guaranteed by the University of Colorado (CU) to others like him,…
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ICE Makes First Known Boulder Detention
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made its first known detention in Boulder on August 24 at 2:17 p.m. The detention happened at a restaurant on the corner of Arapaho Ave and Folsom St. The person who was detained was followed from Boulder Courthouse to the restaurant by 10 ICE vehicles, as reported by Colorado Rapid…
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Farewell, Professor Churchill
Ward LeRoy Churchill, former leader of the Colorado American Indian Movement (AIM), passed away on August 11 from a stroke. Churchill was 78 years old and was living in his Atlanta, Georgia homeland. Most people today know Churchill as the fake Indian at the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder who said America deserved 9/11. Even…
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Boulder PD Announces Expanded Drone Force
The city of Boulder announced its expanded use of police drones and the opening of a new Public Safety Information Center on June 8 in an article released on the city of Boulder’s website. The center will share the same building as the Boulder Police Department (BPD) at 1805 33rd St. The city of Boulder…
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Councilman Wallach says SJP Members “turned their back on every value that is necessary to be part of a community”
In a Boulder City Council meeting on June 4, councilmember Mark Wallach gave a statement condemning Boulder Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), following the release of their statement calling for the release of political prisoner Mohamed Sabry Soliman. In SJP’s statement, the group calls for the release of Soliman, who has been arrested and given…
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Media Publications Scramble to Reject Decolonization Following SJP Statement
“We heard the sound of an explosion, and then intense and strong flames erupted…We couldn’t get close enough to help them,” Yousef Abu al-Rus in an interview with Mondoweiss in April 2025. “I saw with my own eyes small bodies burning and others moving within the blazes. Then all stopped, and we couldn’t do anything,” Nawal…
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CU Boulder Holds 78th Conference on Colonial Affairs
A conference that opened by acknowledging the land theft that made the University of Colorado (CU) possible spent four days hosting war architects in a luxury hotel, ejecting anti-genocide protesters from a democracy panel, and calling all of it open dialogue. The first panel of the 78th Conference on World Affairs (CWA), held on April…
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CU Boulder’s Unshakeable Ties to the Department of Defense
On Feb. 28, 120 children would leave their homes, seeking education at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran. They would never return home because three Tomahawk missiles would be launched at their school, killing 175 people in total. Inside these missiles were parts produced by Boulder-based Ball Aerospace, who have longstanding financial…
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Art Is Political
By Shaun Smith During the halftime show at this year’s annual Super Bowl, Bad Bunny showed up and showed out, ending with a message of love and unity for America. Not just the United States of America, but America as a whole, with countries like Canada, Brazil, Puerto Rico and more included in the message…
