Joy prevailed as roughly 1,000 people gathered in Denver International Airport’s Great Hall, Saturday, January 28, to welcome an unsuspecting passenger named Omar to town and to rebuke Donald Trump’s vision of the United States as a nation that would ban people fleeing violence and discriminate against immigrants based on their religion.
The momentum of the Women’s March on Denver will continue with activities this week…and beyond.
Forty individuals camped out along Denargo Street in north Denver were made to move their tents and belongings on Thursday morning, January 26.
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper just returned from an international gathering in Davos, Switzerland, and rumors are swirling that he’s considering a 2020 run for president.
During the six days that I spent in Washington, D.C., covering President Donald Trump’s inauguration, I found myself in the middle of some striking situations – from the historic Women’s March on Washington to an intense riot that destroyed four city blocks of the nation’s capital and caused upwards of $100,000 in damage.
Less than a month after the start of 2017, we’ve already got a candidate for Colorado’s race for governor in 2018. Last week, former state senator Mike Johnston, a Democrat, formally launched his campaign, and he’s already running hard to succeed John Hickenlooper as the state’s chief executive.
On Saturday, January 21, as at least half-a-million demonstrators flooded the National Mall in Washington, D.C, for the Women’s March on Washington, there was a very different kind of scene in the basement of the nearby H. Carl Moultrie Courthouse of the D.C. Superior Court. While the mood at the Women’s March was buoyant, there was an air of gravity at the courthouse.
While tens of thousands of women filled Civic Center Park during the Women’s March on Denver, hundreds of Coloradans joined in the Women’s March on Washington
Like it or not, on Friday, January 20, Donald Trump officially became the 45th president of the United States. But his impact on Colorado began when he became the Republican candidate. From more anti-Trump protests to marijuana and immigration, here are six ways Trump has already riled us up (and…
The Women’s March on Denver broke through the glass ceiling of all attendance expectations on Saturday, January 21, drawing huge crowds that wound up tripling the initial estimates of 40,000 attendees (and the count could grow). One day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, which itself disappointed in terms of numbers, the American people were clearly determined to make a statement. What that statement was, of course, varied from person to person and sign to sign. Some were traditional, some were profane, some were poignant — and some were beautifully geeky. After all, while you’re speaking your mind and participating in the democratic process, you might as well let your freak flags fly, too. In that spirit, here are the top ten nerd-tastic signs we saw at the Women’s March on Denver.
A destructive march by anarchists leads to mayhem and a standoff in Washington, D.C. on Inauguration Day,
While rumors are flying that there could soon be more sweeps of the homeless in Denver, two court cases filed against the city late last year are slowly working their way through the county and federal judicial systems. In anticipation of upcoming developments, we’ve put together a reminder of what the cases are about, why they’re important, and where they stand.
By mid afternoon on Thursday, January 19, the mood in Washington, D.C., had shifted….and not in a good way. People were on edge. The radical left was getting paranoid. The alt-right was acting emboldened. And the vast majority of reasonable and empathetic people in between are totally at the mercy…
There were no arrests made in Washington, D.C. during President Barack Obama’s first inaugural address in 2009. That will not be the case this year, and Denver attorney Jason Flores-Williams has promised to arrest some of the activists who’ll be arrested pro bono.
On Friday, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States. And while Trump clearly has plenty of supporters with high hopes for his time in office, many critics already fear that he’ll join the ranks of the most ineffective, incompetent chief executives we’ve ever had. What are the chances The Donald will sink to such depths?
Three Denver law enforcement leaders sat in the front pew of the Shorter Community AME Church sanctuary, surrounded by roughly a thousand people, who were angry and respectful, demanding reform.
Chris Walker is in Washington, D.C., covering events around the inauguration — and keeping an eye on Westword cover boy Jason Flores-Williams, who promises to be in the thick of the action. Here’s Walker’s first dispatch.
The Denver Police Department is gathering intelligence on activists around town — and there’s good reason for that concern. Not only have police officers been paying close attention to social-media posts, but in early 2016 the department purchased subscriptions to a powerful social-media monitoring tool called Geofeedia, which was used by law enforcement agencies across the country to monitor protests and other actions.
It’s going to get heavy. We all know it. We’re not sure how, and we’re not sure when. But the events taking place in Washington, D.C., this coming week are going to unfold like the plot of a paperback thriller. The protagonist would have it no other way. Whether you love him or hate him, Donald J. Trump’s inauguration will be historic. And Westword will be on hand to cover the chaos.
Just in time for Inauguration Week, Vibrant, a local company, has vowed to give proceeds from its signature line of sex toys to the Rocky Mountain chapter of Planned Parenthood.
We’ll be entering a new era on January 20, when Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States at his inauguration ceremony in Washington, D.C. Although most of the action will be in the nation’s capitol, Denver will also have plenty of inauguration-related events.
It’s the second week of the beginners’ Spanish course at the Language School. Five students, including Aisha, sit around a table and ask each other how to spell their names in the foreign language. Their instructor stands close by, listening intently and correcting any mispronunciations. Aisha, a mail carrier from Aurora, signed up for the course because she was tired of coming across non-English-speaking clients and being unable to ask them for simple things like a signature.
