Tag: Protest
VIDEO: Did this protestor knock over this motorcycle cop?
Last Wednesday, a Denver cop fell off his motorcycle at a protest against police violence and confrontation ensued. Officers tackled and arrested demonstrators and...
Multimedia mashup: Seven Colorado-lawmakers’ attempts at police reform; protestors rally
A couple dozen protestors gathered outside the state Capitol on May Day, faces hidden and flags waving. They were trying to end police brutality....
Immigrant janitor joins other workers to Fight for $15
Denver – Immigrant janitor and father Javier Elizalde works full time but does not make enough money to feed his family. On April 15,...
Standardized testing protestors’ rally cry at the Capitol: “More than a...
Bundled children held signs that bent in the the blowing sleet. They read: “Testing ≠ Teaching,” “School zone … No PARCCing,” “Have you freed a teacher today?” and the Twitter hashtag eponymous, “More than a score.”
Video: Protestors: ‘We are more than a score’
Teachers, students and families gathered on the Capitol steps on Wednesday to stop standardized testing in Colorado schools. See our video below.
Video by Kyle...
With fracking creeping toward schools, candidates drill down their positions
As concerns mount over oil and gas rigs inching closer to several Colorado schools, legislators are looking toward 2013 to sort out whether local controls should take a backseat to state regulations.
VIDEO: Immigration reform protesters arrested in Denver
“Obama, remember we vote in November!” chanted the crowd marching for federal immigration policy reform in Downtown Denver Tuesday. Fourteen reform activists were arrested...
This is not a post about ugly Baptist group that craves...
That Kansas-based Christian group that protests at the site of gay hate crimes, U.S. military funerals and pretty much anywhere there might be someone...
Pepper spray, broken glass cut short Tancredo talk opposing DREAM Act
Former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo maintained his reputation as a lightning rod on immigration issues Tuesday night in Chapel Hill, N.C., when a rowdy mob disrupted a speech the Littleton Republican had planned to deliver to students at the University of North Carolina.
Campus police used pepper spray and Tasers to subdue a crowd gathered to protest the former presidential candidate, invited by a self-styled campus "right-wing youth movement" to speak out against legislation that would grant in-state tuition to the children of undocumented immigrants, known as the DREAM Act. But when protesters broke a window, showering glass on a student, officers shut down the event and escorted Tancredo from the room, the Associated Press reports.
Saturday protests against bank bailout gain steam
The national "New Way Forward" protest against the Obama-Geithner bank bailout is gaining momentum in Colorado. On the Web site facilitating the action, people are signing up to rally Saturday at banks and public buildings around the country. Denver sign-ups to meet on the west steps of the Capitol have climbed to 145 people.