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Nobel Peace Prize

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    Are you ready for 2012? Watch The True Mayan Prophecy tonight

    ​Good news! The world is not going to end next December 21, no matter what people insist the Mayan calendar predicts. Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff, the founders of PeaceJam, exploded that myth in 2012: The True Mayan Prophecy, the award-winning film they released last year that will air toni ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 10, 2011

    Give PeaceJam a Chance

    ​Good news! The world is not going to end next December 21, no matter what people insist the Mayan calendar predicts. Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff, the founders of PeaceJam, exploded that myth in 2012: The True Mayan Prophecy, the award-winning film they released last year that will air toni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    May 19, 2011

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

    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 >>

  • Film

    March 3, 2011

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

    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 >>

  • Culture

    August 19, 2010

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    March 11, 2010

    He Loves Rock and Roll

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: Pull some strings for Peacejam

    ​It's been a tough year for Peacejam, the homegrown nonprofit that over the past fifteen years has reached out to hundreds of thousands of kids around the globe, showing them that in the toughest circumstances, it's still possible to push for peace -- and then proving it by bringing ten Nobel ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 12, 2009

    Peace Out!

    ​It's been a tough year for Peacejam, the homegrown nonprofit that over the past fifteen years has reached out to hundreds of thousands of kids around the globe, showing them that in the toughest circumstances, it's still possible to push for peace -- and then proving it by bringing ten Nobel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2008

    Running with McCain: Who It Won’t Be

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    February 28, 2008

    Give Peace Jam a Chance

    Adolfo Perez Esquivel speaks out.

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2007

    Five Random Songs From My Work iTunes, October 17

    Adolfo Perez Esquivel speaks out.

  • News

    August 16, 2007

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of 8/16/2007

  • News

    August 9, 2007

    Nobel Virtues

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

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2006

    A Nobel Calling

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

  • News

    September 28, 2006

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of September 28, 2006

  • News

    September 21, 2006

    Speak Your Peace

    Some very Nobel intentions pay off.

  • News

    September 14, 2006

    Nobel Intentions

    Go, Broncos! Promoting peace is serious business.

  • Dining

    September 7, 2006

    Maggiano’s Little Italy

    Love thy neighbor

  • Music

    September 7, 2006

    The Hills Are Alive

    Matt Fecher brings the sound of music to Fairplay.

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2006

    Give PeaceJam a Chance

    Matt Fecher brings the sound of music to Fairplay.

  • News

    July 20, 2006

    Pressing Engagements

    Matt Fecher brings the sound of music to Fairplay.

  • News

    July 6, 2006

    A Nobel Calling

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

  • News

    November 10, 2005

    A Peace of the Action

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

  • Calendar

    September 8, 2005

    Let Us Prey

    Alan Clements uses Spiritually Incorrect to skewer modern hype.

  • Calendar

    March 3, 2005

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Alan Clements uses Spiritually Incorrect to skewer modern hype.

  • Music

    July 29, 2004

    The Beatdown

    A long day's journey into the Wild Divine.

  • Music

    March 25, 2004

    Hit Pick

    White Dynamite

  • Calendar

    March 11, 2004

    Make Book With PeaceJam

    The PeaceJam outreach continues in a new book.

  • News

    March 13, 2003

    We Be Jammin'

    PeaceJam scores two theatrical releases -- and kudos from Michael Moore.

  • Calendar

    May 13, 1999

    Night & Day

    May 13-19, 1999

  • Calendar

    November 12, 1998

    Night & Day

    November 12 - 18, 1998

  • Calendar

    November 12, 1998

    Peace Pipeline

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

  • Dining

    October 8, 1998

    Mouthing Off

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

  • Calendar

    May 29, 1997

    Thrills for the week

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

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