Does any one know anything about this? This 3 year old collective is run by Denver's Food Not Bombs chapter and is a non-profit volunteer community bicycle shop which offers free bikes, repairs and how-to education to the Denver/Westside and homeless community.

Recently the City of Denver issued a Cease and Desist order to the shop, citing 'uncommon and uncustomary practices.' Does any one have any info on this?

http://www.derailerbicyclecollective.org/index.html

It definately looks political:

http://www.aclu-co.org/news/pressrelease/release_JTTF051805.htm

It definately looks political:

http://www.aclu-co.org/news/pressrelease/release_JTTF051805.htm
I don't see anything in the 2nd article that describes or explains anything about the first article and/or the city's order. Are you saying the FBI issued/directed the city's order? Have the black helicopters begun to circle overhead?

I don't see anything in the 2nd article that describes or explains anything about the first article and/or the city's order. Are you saying the FBI issued/directed the city's order? Have the black helicopters begun to circle overhead?

This was in the second story... regarding the connection to the first:

...a young Denver activist who worked for the American Friends Service Committee for several years in the organization’s Youth and Militarism Program and who is also active with Food Not Bombs. The FBI report notes that Bardwell was listed as a “point of contact” for the organizers of an antiwar protest in downtown Denver in March, 2004. It further notes that her address is “associated with” Food Not Bombs and Derailer Bicycle Collective. (Volunteers at Derailer fix up old bikes, donate bicycles to the homeless, and teach people to work on their own bikes.) The author of the FBI report also states that Derailer hosted a meeting place during the Columbus Day protests in Denver two years earlier.

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Obviously building bikes for those that are down and out is worth an FBI investigation.

So much for the old "flowers in her hair" days of the '60s antiwar protests.

... regarding the connection to the first:
Obviously building bikes for those that are down and out is worth an FBI investigation.

And just as obvious is the disconnect between the FBI "investigation" of 2005 and the city order to cease certain unnamed actions of May 2006. Perhaps our hippy comrades are pure as the driven snow but it might be worth waiting for an adequate description of what practices they are supposed to cease.

Looks like the “shop” is operating in a residential garage. The neighbors probably don’t like a lot of homeless coming around, hanging out near their kids. The city may be simply responding to complaints.

I got that out of it too. They say they are looking for a larger location, makes me thing the location now is not proper.

I don't think i'd like to live in Colorado, every few years there is some sort of hatred going on there. Wouldn't be surprised if it turns out they are a state buying tickets to send homeless people to LA, now the homeless capital of the US.

No, Denver dresses the homeless up as hippies and sends them to Boulder.

Prolly all about a zoning citation

I wish we had more info; seems like a great resource to me.

Has anyone been there?