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Peoples History of the Grand Valley

Peoples History of the Grand Valley

The People of the Grand Valley's Struggles, Victories, and Movements for Change.

Category: Socialist Era

Anti-War / May 11, 2022

Dreamers, Revolutionaries, and Humanitarians: a progressive history of the Grand Valley 1885-today.

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Anti-War / May 6, 2022

To Feed the Flies: The Anti-War Article Brought Down the Last Socialist Newspaper in the Grand Valley

This anti-WWI article in the local socialist paper was not popular by the new Super-Patriots at the time. The Sentinel, the Post-Master, and…

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Labor Movement / May 6, 2022

The Mayor; The Sentinel, and the Socialist Free Speech Fight of 1905

Walter Walker was not the first editor of the Daily Sentinel to wage an all-out war on the Socialist parties in early 20th…

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Labor Movement / May 6, 2022

George N. Falconer: A Highlander and his Mother

George Nichol Falconer was born 1863 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His mother “was a daughter of the Clan Fraser, a group of Highland cattle…

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Labor Movement / May 6, 2022

GJ Socialists and Irish Revolutionary James Connelly

Grand Junction’s Socialist era is often portrayed as an electoral fluke that elected socialist Mayor Thomas Todd to office in 1909. But it…

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Anti-War / December 30, 2021

“No War:” Dissidents, Resisters, and Pacifist thru Grand Valley History

In early 2001, months before 9/11, two young men living in Grand Junction signed up to serve their county, and “get out of…

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Anti-War / December 20, 2021

Why “A People’s History of the Grand Valley”

This project really began in 2006, I was writing for the short live radical paper, “The Red Pill.” Grand Junction was celebrating its…

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Anti-War / September 30, 2021

Vigilantes Shut Down Anti-War Socialist Paper

In the years leading up to the first world war, the only vocal local anti-war voices were the voices of the Socialists. The…

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Anti-War / April 17, 2021

Carl Gleeser: Grand Junction’s First Radical

Before Grand Junction was even a town, a radical and organizer called the Grand Valley home. Meet Carl Gleeser, anarchist, labor organizer, publisher,…

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L. Ross Conklin, 1916

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