Subject:

Civil Rights

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    Democratic caucuses: Senators, faith leaders encourage participation, decry vote suppression

    In a 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, African-Americans and other minority citizens secured the right to vote. To honor their efforts, Colorado Democratic lawmakers, faith leaders and march veterans are urging citizens to utilize their voting rights by participating in toni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2012

    Alex Landau discusses the lack of prosecution for the officers who beat him

    Three years ago, Alex Landau became a symbol of sorts for racial inequality and police brutality in Denver. Three years ago, Denver police officers pulled Landau over for an alleged illegal left turn, and it was not long after that they beat him bloody. But that was three years ago, and Landau has c ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 17, 2011

    They're Playing Our Song

    Three years ago, Alex Landau became a symbol of sorts for racial inequality and police brutality in Denver. Three years ago, Denver police officers pulled Landau over for an alleged illegal left turn, and it was not long after that they beat him bloody. But that was three years ago, and Landau has c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    Reader: Occupy Denver legal team member calls out ACLU over civil-rights case claims

    ​Kelsey Whipple's recent post about Occupy Denver's legal team exploring legal precedents involving tents as examples of speech drew a sharp response from a member of the occupation's Legal Issues Working Group. His post focuses on both the aforementioned lawyers and the ACLU, which he feels c ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 10, 2011

    What Goes Around

    ​Kelsey Whipple's recent post about Occupy Denver's legal team exploring legal precedents involving tents as examples of speech drew a sharp response from a member of the occupation's Legal Issues Working Group. His post focuses on both the aforementioned lawyers and the ACLU, which he feels c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2011

    National Western Stock Show: Will Aurora give Gaylord Entertainment the right to vote?

    ​What's next? Cows will get to cast ballots in Aurora? The Libertarian Party -- like the National Western Stock Show, an institution that got its start in Colorado -- is concerned that Aurora is about to give voting rights to a corporation: Gaylord Entertainment, the out-of-state company tryin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2011

    Mike Coffman, repeat Shmuck, wants to make it harder for Spanish speakers to vote

    Mike Coffman.​U.S. Representative Mike Coffman is no stranger to voter suppression. In fact, the 6th District Republican lawmaker has a long history of tinkering with elections. His latest campaign would make it more difficult for people who don't speak English well to vote across the country ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Medical marijuana lawsuit filed, claims regulations violate state constitution

    Kathleen Chippi.​In May, cannabis advocate Kathleen Chippi asked for donations to help her file a lawsuit to challenge Colorado medical marijuana regulations, which went into effect today. And while she didn't collect quite as much as she hoped, the total was enough to make the suit viable. It ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2011

    The GOP members of the House Judiciary Committee will go down in history -- as shmucks

    Bob Gardner​It was a foregone conclusion from the beginning. Earlier this year, state representative Mark Ferrandino and state senator Pat Steadman introduced a bill that would have allowed civil unions in Colorado and given gay couples the same right to make a legal commitment as heterosexu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Janet Napolitano intros "If You See Something, Say Something" video: Like 24, except lamer

    Video below.​Why was Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano in Denver yesterday? To promote the expansion to Colorado of DHS' "If You See Something, Say Something" campaign. The flagship item is a video on view below about the general public keeping an eye out for terrorist ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    Tonight: Growing up White on the Reservation revisits a turbulent time in 1972

    Pamela Mencher is white.​Pamela Mencher has spent eleven years working on her play -- but in some ways, she's been working on it her whole life. Born on a Lakota/Sioux reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, Mencher spent her formative years there and on a Blackfeet reservation in Montana dur ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 18, 2010

    Martyred Unknown

    Pamela Mencher is white.​Pamela Mencher has spent eleven years working on her play -- but in some ways, she's been working on it her whole life. Born on a Lakota/Sioux reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, Mencher spent her formative years there and on a Blackfeet reservation in Montana dur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2010

    Josh "Penal" Penry: Felons vote the Democratic ticket

    "How can I woo the sex offender vote?"​Yes, it's the season for blustery rhetoric and high-pressure posturing down at the statehouse. But few stunts can match, for sheer unintended hilarity, this recent blast from Colorado Senate Republicans, denouncing a bill to restore voting rights to stat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Marijuana legalization in Nederland: Q&A with "Michigan" Mike Torpie, the man behind the initiative

    Photo by Anthony Camera"Michigan" Mike Torpie circa 2004, when marijuana legalization was only a dream.​Yesterday, we told you about Nederland's passage of a marijuana decriminalization initiative -- making it the third city in Colorado (after Denver and Breckenridge) to take this step. The e ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 1, 2010

    Chimes of Freedom

    Photo by Anthony Camera"Michigan" Mike Torpie circa 2004, when marijuana legalization was only a dream.​Yesterday, we told you about Nederland's passage of a marijuana decriminalization initiative -- making it the third city in Colorado (after Denver and Breckenridge) to take this step. The e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    Colorado Civil Rights Commission discovers that discrimination has not disappeared in a decade

    ​The people gathered in a meeting room at the Blair Caldwell library last summer were getting restless. "You all wasted our time," proclaimed one community activist. "This was not a waste of your time," replied Rico Munn, then-director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Affairs, which i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    Ladies' night opponent Steve Horner gets slapped down: Drink up, women!

    ​Steve Horner, go back to your corner. This week, Westword received a packet that contained copies of a dozen letters sent to Horner, the anti-ladies' night crusader, from Steven Chavez, director of the Colorado Division of Civil Rights, all dated March 11 and all starting this way: "This let ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    Drink up, gals! Steve Horner's anti-ladies' night campaign dries up.

    ​Steve Horner, go back to your corner. This week, Westword received a packet that contained copies of a dozen letters sent to Horner, the anti-ladies' night crusader, from Steven Chavez, director of the Colorado Division of Civil Rights, all dated March 11 and all starting this way: "This let ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    Medical marijuana dispensary victory in Castle Rock: Town backs down

    Plants 4 Life is back to serving customers dishes like this.​On Monday, we updated you onthe story of Plants 4 Life, a Castle Rock medical marijuana dispensary that had received a business license from the town only to be prevented from selling its main product because weed is illegal under fe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    Medical marijuana attorney Rob Corry: "The future is here"

    Rob Corry has his PR cannon aimed squarely at Centennial.​The lawsuit against Centennial by CannaMart, a medical marijuana dispensary the city shut down despite granting it a business license a short time earlier, gets its first reading in court today, and Rob Corry and a team of attorneys rep ... More >>

  • News

    October 8, 2009

    From the week of October 8, 2009

    Rob Corry has his PR cannon aimed squarely at Centennial.​The lawsuit against Centennial by CannaMart, a medical marijuana dispensary the city shut down despite granting it a business license a short time earlier, gets its first reading in court today, and Rob Corry and a team of attorneys rep ... More >>

  • News

    September 17, 2009

    Drink up, Denver! The Division of Civil Rights has confirmed your right to enjoy ladies' night

    Rob Corry has his PR cannon aimed squarely at Centennial.​The lawsuit against Centennial by CannaMart, a medical marijuana dispensary the city shut down despite granting it a business license a short time earlier, gets its first reading in court today, and Rob Corry and a team of attorneys rep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: A member of the bar

    ​I am not a lawyer, but lately I've been called upon to play one when visiting local watering holes -- as a member of the bar, so to speak. The owners of these locales all want to know one thing: Can they hold a ladies' night? I've developed an unwanted expertise on the subject, ever since S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2009

    Threat against abortion doctor Warren Hern: Read the indictment here

    Warren Hern, in an image from a Boulder Daily Camera video.​As Patricia Calhoun pointed out earlier this morning, Boulder's Warren Hern, the last practitioner in the U.S. still doing late-term abortions, was the subject of a death threat by a Spokane, Washington, man, Donald Hertz, mere weeks ... More >>

  • News

    August 6, 2009

    Steve Horner fights for his right to be wrong.

    Warren Hern, in an image from a Boulder Daily Camera video.​As Patricia Calhoun pointed out earlier this morning, Boulder's Warren Hern, the last practitioner in the U.S. still doing late-term abortions, was the subject of a death threat by a Spokane, Washington, man, Donald Hertz, mere weeks ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: Civil rights, better late than never

    ​"You all wasted our time," proclaimed community activist Alvertis Simmons at a public forum held July 27 by the Colorado Division of Civil Rights. "This was not a waste of your time," replied Rico Munn, the cool-headed director of the Department of Regulatory Affairs, which includes the Div ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: Civil Rights on the road

    ​ The Colorado Civil Rights Commission took its show on the road last night, hosting an evening forum at the Blair-Caldwell Library. And if the conversation didn't seem to go exactly where Colorado Civil Rights Division director Steve Chavez wanted it to go -- after an active initial discussio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    Steve Horner: A name that drives people to drink

    On my way home from the Colorado Civil Rights Forum last night, I stopped by Lola, which was hosting the first of the Denver Five dinners. (More on that coming later today from Nancy Levine, who was at the dinner from the start.) And, inevitably, I spotted a restaurateur in the crowd who's had rece ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: Emmett Till, RIP

    The original casket of Emmett Till was among the missing items uncovered in the Alsip, Illinois, cemetery scandal. After the body of the fourteen-year-old civil rights martyr was exhumed in 2005 for an investigation into Till's lynching back in 1955, when the Chicago boy dared to talk to a white wom ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: Disorder in the court

    The fireworks started early for the 4th. Early last week, we got a call from a reporter in Mankato, Minnesota, researching a story about Steve Horner, the anti-ladies night crusader who started his fight in that state (where he wound up in jail for harassing the head of Minnesota's civil rights co ... More >>

  • News

    May 21, 2009

    Ladies Night foe Steve Horner doesn't even live here. So how can we discriminate against him?

    The fireworks started early for the 4th. Early last week, we got a call from a reporter in Mankato, Minnesota, researching a story about Steve Horner, the anti-ladies night crusader who started his fight in that state (where he wound up in jail for harassing the head of Minnesota's civil rights co ... More >>

  • News

    March 5, 2009

    The Colorado Civil Rights Division has a double standard for ladies' nights -- and newspapers

    The fireworks started early for the 4th. Early last week, we got a call from a reporter in Mankato, Minnesota, researching a story about Steve Horner, the anti-ladies night crusader who started his fight in that state (where he wound up in jail for harassing the head of Minnesota's civil rights co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2008

    Going through election withdrawal? How 'bout a protest?

    California's Proposition 8 outlaws scenes like this. I don't know about you, but I had a distinct bittersweet taste in my mouth on November 5. Sweet for obvious reasons; the bitter came from the passing of Proposition 8 in California. I thought it was a damn shame that just as our nation seems t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2008

    Gag me with a ballot

    California's Proposition 8 outlaws scenes like this. I don't know about you, but I had a distinct bittersweet taste in my mouth on November 5. Sweet for obvious reasons; the bitter came from the passing of Proposition 8 in California. I thought it was a damn shame that just as our nation seems t ... More >>

  • Music

    July 3, 2008

    Celebrating Americons

    Four musical moments in history that helped shape our lives and our country.

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2008

    Delegating Denver #47 of 56: Tennessee

    Four musical moments in history that helped shape our lives and our country.

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2008

    A Really Raw Deal

    Four musical moments in history that helped shape our lives and our country.

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2008

    Shmuck of the Week

    Four musical moments in history that helped shape our lives and our country.

  • News

    August 23, 2007

    Steve Horner-Free Corner

    If ladies’ night is this city’s biggest sin, we’re doing all right.

  • News

    August 9, 2007

    Drink Up, Ladies!

    Steve Horner's crusade to end ladies' nights falls flat.

  • News

    June 28, 2007

    Ladies’ Nights, RIP

    And you know who to blame: Steve Horner.

  • News

    May 24, 2007

    Last Call for Ladies’ Nights?

    If Steve Horner gets his way, ladies could be singing the booze.

  • News

    February 22, 2007

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of 2/22/2007

  • News

    February 15, 2007

    Ladies' Plight

    Rosa Parks didn't surrender to discrimination and take a different bus. So why should Steve Horner go to a different bar?

  • News

    May 26, 2005

    Names and Faces

    There are thousands of illegal-immigrant stories in the city. This is one of them.

  • News

    February 21, 2002

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of February 21, 2002

  • News

    February 21, 2002

    Good Cop, White Cop

    Ronnie Williams says he's being punished for trying to start a white officers' association.

  • News

    January 25, 2001

    Target Practice

    A class-action suit becomes a vehicle for racial justice.

  • Calendar

    February 17, 2000

    Concrete and Barbed Wire

    Amache: Day of Remembrance

  • News

    February 4, 1999

    Letters

    Amache: Day of Remembrance

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