James Reflects on People’s Press Collective

People’s Press Collective, which aggregates conservative and free market writings in Colorado (and on which this post will appear), started with the idea of covering the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Thomas James, a cofounder of the project, reviewed its history and goals at a recent Liberty On the Rocks event.

James said of the DNC, “We were going to show what was really going on on the street, with protests and riots, and who knows what… the things that the media really didn’t want you do see.” (At the time, various organizers and pundits discussed the possibility of riots.) The organization’s coverage of the event runs through August of 2008.

And, for those who missed it, James also discussed the new hard science fiction novel about Mars he coauthored, In the Shadow of Ares: