Erica Chenoweth can tell you that the average nonviolent protest movement achieves its goal in just three years, three to four times shorter than violent campaigns. The University of Denver professor is also quick to cite her finding that nonviolent campaigns have double the rate of success of their bloody counterparts.
“Why do we do this?” asked Jon Caldara, president of the Independence Institute and host of the annual Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Party, at the August 26 event. “Only one reason. To piss off people on the left.”
Organizers of Denver Go Topless Day 2017, which took place August 26 in downtown Denver, call the event a rousing success. The number of participants was estimated at more than 1,000, and no reports of negative interactions from folks on the 16th Street Mall and Civic Center Park have surfaced at this writing. Moreover, the Denver event is making its mark internationally, as it was highlighted by GoTopless.org alongside similar gatherings that took place across the globe.
Activism needs to be more inclusive. That’s a criticism leveled at this year’s plethora of national protests, starting with the Women’s March on Washington. With the inaugural Inclusive Global Leadership Institute, two University of Denver professors are working towards that goal.
Terese Howard, perhaps Denver’s most outspoken advocate for individuals experiencing homelessness and a principal organizer of the group Denver Homeless Out Loud, believed that she was facing jail time when she reported to a probation violation hearing at the Lindsey Flanigan Courthouse on Thursday, August 24.
This week, attorney David Lane expects to file a motion to dismiss charges against members of the Colorado Springs Socialists, a student protest group, over a March demonstration in Colorado Springs on the grounds of “outrageous conduct” by local law enforcement. The reason? Lane argues that undercover officers were improperly embedded among the non-violent protesters, whose largest offense at the rally appears to have been jaywalking.
On July 11, when Ed Perlmutter announced that he was dropping out of the 2018 Colorado governor’s race, he also said he wouldn’t run again for U.S. representative in the state’s 7th Congressional District in part because “there are a lot of good people in my race…. Sometimes you need to move on and somebody else needs to come in.” But yesterday, Perlmutter revealed that he’d changed his mind and will now seek reelection to Congress. This decision has caused three of those good people to step aside, including state senator Andy Kerr, who abandoned ship this morning, August 22. That leaves outsider candidate Dan Baer as the only 7th CD Democratic hopeful other than Perlmutter left standing, and his campaign’s comments about the latest developments are far from unequivocal.
At an event last week, Denver City Councilman Albus Brooks revealed that he had battled through an addiction to opioids. But he declined an interview request from Westword to talk in more detail about this ordeal, which came about as a result of treatment for cancer, even though opioid deaths are on the rise in Denver and across the state.
Just over a month after Ed Perlmutter dropped out of the 2018 race for Colorado governor and announced that he wouldn’t seek reelection to Congress in the state’s 7th Congressional District, he has changed his mind. Perlmutter has now declared that he will indeed make a bid to stay in Congress, contradicting earlier statements about making room for new blood.
Crow is shaping up for his first-ever political fight as he prepares to take on Levi Tillemann and David Aarestad in the primaries next summer before potentially challenging Mike Coffman next fall.
In late 2015, Denver Activist Theo Wilson went undercover online as a black man amongst the alt-right. By creating a fake white supremacist Facebook profile as well as a YouTube account under the moniker “Lucius25,” Wilson set out to trick the social media platforms’ algorithms into feeding him the same…
When Senator Cory Gardner held his first in-person town halls in over a year last week, plenty of constituents attended to air their grievances or show their support for the congressman from Yuma. And unsurprisingly, plenty of readers weighed in on our story about Gardner’s town hall in Lakewood.
In response to increased immigration enforcement under President Trump and lower numbers of crimes being reported by immigrants, Denver has looked for ways to reassure residents that it is doing no more than what is legally necessary when following federal immigration laws. But the city hasn’t always agreed on how…
Steve Barlock, an independent Denver-area real estate broker who co-chaired the 2016 Mile High City campaign for now-President Donald Trump, is running as a Republican for governor here in 2018. In the following in-depth interview, he goes into detail about his reasons for seeking the office, shares his frustrations with entrenched powers on both sides of the political spectrum, and touts himself as a candidate of the people dedicated to being to Colorado what Trump is to the United States as a whole.
Despite a moderator repeatedly asking the crowd to remain respectful and lower their voices, hecklers interrupted Senator Cory Gardner nearly every time he tried to answer a question.
Career diplomat Dan Baer believes his tenure working and negotiating under the Obama administration makes him a perfect fit to help heal partisan wounds in Washington.
Lawyers representing Denver’s homeless population filed a motion for a summary judgement that, if approved by a judge, would put an end to Denver’s practice of homeless sweeps on the grounds that they violate the constitutional rights of the city’s 3,400 individuals experiencing homelessness.
Jon Caldara, the feisty president of the Independence Institute, is continuing an ideological assault on Colorado Public Radio, arguing that the venerable broadcaster lacks diversity not of race, color or creed, but of thought. And while CPR initially defended itself against this claim, it’s now declining to comment in the apparent hope that Caldara will shut up, go away or move on to pester someone else.
Actions taken by Coloradans in response to the violence in Charlottesville this weekend ranged from a rally in City Park, to Senator Cory Gardner’s tweets and appearance on CNN.
Senator Cory Gardner is having a busy August, even with Congress on vacation. On August 7, his Denver office moved from Skyline Park. On August 12, the Colorado Republican tweeted about the Charlottesville violence, earning a spot on CNN. And August 15, he’ll hold three town halls.
Levi Tillemann’s got an impressive resume for a 35-year-old. He’s earned his PHD, learned Chinese and Japanese, published a book and served in Obama’s Department of Energy. Now, he’s hoping to add Congressman to his lengthy highlight reel.
Charges against Cynthia Dawn Russell and Elizabeth Moseley in relation to an ADAPT protest of Senator Cory Gardner in January have been dismissed. This decision, which came down on the same day that cases against five Democratic Socialists of America members who demonstrated against the senator at a July sit-in were also tossed, helps explain why Gardner recently relocated his offices from the Chase Bank building, a commercial enterprise, to a federal building.
