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Women take harder hit in weakening job market

As unemployment numbers rise, women and minorities are disproportionally affected, according to a review of August unemployment numbers by a number of think tanks.

Obama campaign woos Hispanic community organizers

On the heels of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s disparaging remarks about community organizers, more than 50 Barack Obama supporters attended a campaign outreach and volunteer training session focused on reaching out to Colorado’s Latino community.

Abortion foes arrested protesting Dobson’s support of McCain

The Gazette reports Colorado Springs police arrested eight protesters from a radical anti-abortion group who refused to leave the lobby at Focus on the Family headquarters Thursday morning. Members of a splinter group were protesting Focus chief James Dobson's endorsement of Republican John McCain.

Obama radio ad: ‘McCain will make abortion illegal’

The Obama campaign began airing a radio ad in Colorado and at least six other swing states this week that takes on John McCain's opposition to abortion, Politico's Ben Smith reports.

Dobson responds to Palin teen pregnancy

James Dobson, president of Colorado Springs' Focus on the Family ministry empire, weighed in on the news that McCain's Vice Presidential pick, Sarah Palin, has a pregnant teenage daughter. He called for compassion for the Palin family and 17-year-old Bristol, who plans to marry the father of her child. And, as usual, Dobson blamed the media for casting Palin and her family as "hypocrites."

Can Biden’s credentials on women’s issues draw Hillary backers?

Quincy Lucas, a Delaware woman whose sister was murdered, delivered the vice presidential nominating speech last night, highlighting Sen. Joe Biden’s commitment to fighting violence against women.

LIVEBLOG: No on Amendment 48

I'm here at the Big Tent listening in on a panel discussing the "personhood" amendment that will be on the ballot in Colorado that seeks to confer constitutional rights on fertilized human eggs.

Feminist Majority leader on why she’s cool with Obama, too

Senator Hillary Clinton called for party unity last night at the Democratic National Convention, and it looks like her high profile feminist supporters are ready to give it to her. Rather than feed into what Feministing.com deemed "the oppression Olympics" during the primary, feminist leaders recognize that both women and minorities have had it tough in America, and because of that both Clinton's and Obama's runs for the White House are equally historic.

Don’t forget the Supreme Court

The Alliance for Justice held a panel discussion today in the Big Tent, and for once this progressive organization had something in common with conservatives: plenty of doom, gloom and fear about the future.

DNC protesters use bullhorns to spread hate

It’s been a battle of the bullhorns this week in Denver. Protesters from all walks of life and all points of view are walking up and down 16th Street Mall making sure their message is heard by everyone within a two-block radius. From anti-war activists to the Official Street Preachers who spew hateful remarks about gay and lesbians, non-Christians, children, basically anyone who is not a born-again Jesus lover.
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