Nobel Peace Prize

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3 things to do for free in Denver this week, March 18-21

Although St. Patrick's Day is over, the partying doesn't have to stop. This week, you can see a documentary about ending poverty, catch a sketch comedy show, or participate in a community scrapbooking project (and eat cookies). And all of these events are free, so you won't have to shell out any gre ... More >>

PeaceJam founders headed to the United Nations for global call to action

When we last caught up with Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff, the founders of the homegrown PeaceJam, they were on their way to Guatamela, to spend December 21, 2012 -- that important date on the Mayan calendar -- with Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Mayan elders and hundreds of indigen ... More >>

Mayan myths: PeaceJam on the ten worst doomsday predictions , and one surprise

No one could have predicted that all the wacky doomsday predictions tied to the Mayan calendar and December 21, 2012 would mark a new beginning for PeaceJam, the homegrown effort that links Nobel Peace Prize winners with kids, teaching them how to make a difference in the world. But assuming the wor ... More >>

PeaceJam's founders hope to dispel myths about the Mayans

See also: PeaceJam leaders are predicting a busy 2013

PeaceJam leaders are predicting a busy 2013

See also: PeaceJam's founders hope to dispel myths about the Mayans

Photo: James Holmes-Obama billboard's message defended by conservative group

In the immediate aftermath of the Aurora theater shooting, President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney backed off politics for a few days. But the pair are back to going after each other hammer and tongs, as are their supporters -- like a group in Idaho that pr ... More >>

PeaceJam co-founder recalls connection with now-traveling Aung San Suu Kyi

Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma is currently in Thailand, her first international trip in 24 years. Suu Kyi spent much of the past two decades under a house arrest enforced by the ruling military junta, which has since been replaced. Now freed, Suu Kyi has been elected to Parliament. The ... More >>

Shirin Ebadi comes to Denver as another Nobel Peace Prize winner pulls out of Chicago summit

Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her work in Northern Ireland, has pulled out of the twelfth World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates that starts Monday in Chicago. "That's what happens when you don't hold your big Nobel events in Denver!," jokes Dawn Engle, a founde ... More >>

Five better ways to help Uganda than watching the Kony 2012 viral video

By now your Facebook page has probably exploded with friends' posts of the viral video Kony2012. If you're one of the few who hasn't yet seen the video or read the hash tag on Twitter, Joseph Kony is the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) of Uganda. He's been terrorizing Uganda and Southern ... More >>

James Harper quits Grand Junction High choir over Islamic song and prompts Fox News frenzy

Certain stories have Fox News written all over them -- like, for instance, the tale of James Harper, a small town Colorado student who quit his high school choir after discovering that one of the lines he was asked to warble translates to "There is no truth but Allah." Number of comments on the Fox ... More >>

Round two with Rob Lawler of the Truffle

Lori Midson​ Rob Lawler The Truffle 2906 East Sixth Avenue 303-322-7363 www.denvertruffle.com This is part two of my interview with Rob Lawler, former chef and the sovereign of cheese at the Truffle. Part one of my chat with Lawler ran yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: I really do ... More >>

Give PeaceJam a Chance

Eyes on the prize: Pray the Devil Back to Hell focuses on Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize winner.​The five-part "Women, War & Peace" spotlights the stories of women in conflict zones. Part two of this series, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, features 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee and her work in organizing the women of Liberia to unite, ul ... More >>

The apocalypse will kick off in Boulder, and here's why

Flick Pick: 2012: The True Mayan Prophecy shows March 3

Tireless satire: For Tomfoolery, don't leave your brain at home

The Biennial Roundtable on Women promotes discussion -- and sharing

Rigoberta Menchu Tum​The Biennial of the Americas is in full swing, and at the "Americas Roundtable on Women: Drivers of the New Economy," on July 7, 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu Tum eloquently summed up the goal of the event when she declared, "I believe that women should be ... More >>

Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Nobel Prize winner, inspires Denver one community at a time

Rigoberta Menchú Tum.​Rigoberta Menchú Tum, winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, visited two at-risk Denver communities yesterday, not to preach peace but to preach "harmony." For Menchú Tum and Mayan spiritual teachers Don Pedro Yac Noj and Doña Faviana Cochoy Alva, who are traveling wi ... More >>

PeaceJam looks ahead to 2012, Mayan style

Bradlee ArendtRigoberta Menchu.​Kate Power is one of the few people who can say that her job is "never boring." Power works at PeaceJam, the Arvada-based non-profit that collaborates with Nobel Peace Prize winners to teach kids how to foster peace around the world. "The kids really value tha ... More >>

2012: Mayan end-times prophecies, courtesy of PeaceJam

​It's been quite a year for PeaceJam, the homegrown organization that uses Nobel Peace Prize winners to empower kids to fight for peace around the globe. But the challenges of the past year -- including a major restructuring and a new PeaceJam office -- are nothing compared to what 2012 might ... More >>

Obama gives $125,000 in Nobel Prize money to Denver-based American Indian College Fund: Find something to hate about that!

Courtesy of the White House"The Republicans can't blast me for doing this, can they?"​These days, pretty much everything President Barack Obama does is criticized by someone or other. But his detractors will have to work overtime to fault him for his decision regarding the money he received f ... More >>

He Loves Rock and Roll

Give PeaceJam a chance: Buy a guitar

​The five hand-painted guitars signed by ten Nobel Peace Prize winners that will be auctioned off on eBay today are truly for the man who has everything -- although "that's not true until they buy one of the guitars!," points out Ivan Suvanjieff, the founder of PeaceJam, the organization that ... More >>

Peace Out!

Wake-Up Call: A noble, if not Nobel, calling

​Yesterday was a long day in Idledale, the tiny town in the foothills where Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff put up their feet when they're not pounding the pavement on behalf of PeaceJam, the non-profit they founded over a dozen years ago that links up youth from around the world with Nobel Pea ... More >>

OMG! Douglas County teens face horrors of sexting

​I am back from the front lines of the kiddie porn wars with some shocking news: The prosperous, sprawling suburbs of Douglas County conceal a steamy underbelly of underage sexual exhibitionism. Youth are being exploited right and left. Usually by each other. Sexting -- the insidious, techno ... More >>

Skip the Blue Moon, Crowley, and tap one of these other Colorado beers for the political slurp heard 'round the world

Blue Moon: Not the best beer for solving a national crisis.​If the pundits are to be believed, the entirety of our country's centuries-old racial upheaval will be solved today with the cracking open of a couple cold ones. After President Barack Obama ignited a fiery national debate on race re ... More >>

Today's Night & Day featured event: Jody Williams gives PeaceJam a chance

Jody Williams. Sure, Denver hosted the Democratic National Convention in August 2008, filling the town with bold names and high hopes. Still, for sheer exuberance and truly Nobel intentions, it didn't top the tenth anniversary celebration of PeaceJam, which in September 2006 brought a dozen Nobel P ... More >>

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Letters to the Editor

From the week of 8/16/2007

Nobel Virtues

Colorado's Nobel Peace Prize nominees rock harder than Bono.

A Nobel Calling

Speak Your Peace

Some very Nobel intentions pay off.

Nobel Intentions

Go, Broncos! Promoting peace is serious business.

Maggiano’s Little Italy

Love thy neighbor

The Hills Are Alive

Matt Fecher brings the sound of music to Fairplay.

Give PeaceJam a Chance

Pressing Engagements

A Nobel Calling

In just two months, change starts here. In Denver. No joke.

A Peace of the Action

Look out, Cherry Hills: The world's coming to Denver.

Let Us Prey

Alan Clements uses Spiritually Incorrect to skewer modern hype.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Hit Pick

White Dynamite

Make Book With PeaceJam

The PeaceJam outreach continues in a new book.

Night & Day

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November 12 - 18, 1998

Peace Pipeline

How a couple of "average, flawed people" are jammin' till the jam is through.

Mouthing Off