Tag: Protest

Last Wednesday, a Denver cop fell off his motorcycle at a protest against police violence and confrontation ensued. Officers tackled and arrested demonstrators and...

A couple dozen protestors gathered outside the state Capitol on May Day, faces hidden and flags waving. They were trying to end police brutality....

Denver – Immigrant janitor and father Javier Elizalde works full time but does not make enough money to feed his family. On April 15,...

Bundled children held signs that bent in the the blowing sleet. They read: “Testing ≠ Teaching,” “School zone … No PARCCing,” “Have you freed a teacher today?” and the Twitter hashtag eponymous, “More than a score.”

Teachers, students and families gathered on the Capitol steps on Wednesday to stop standardized testing in Colorado schools. See our video below. Video by Kyle...

As concerns mount over oil and gas rigs inching closer to several Colorado schools, legislators are looking toward 2013 to sort out whether local controls should take a backseat to state regulations.

“Obama, remember we vote in November!” chanted the crowd marching for federal immigration policy reform in Downtown Denver Tuesday. Fourteen reform activists were arrested...

That Kansas-based Christian group that protests at the site of gay hate crimes, U.S. military funerals and pretty much anywhere there might be someone...

Former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo maintained his reputation as a lightning rod on immigration issues Tuesday night in Chapel Hill, N.C., when a rowdy mob disrupted a speech the Littleton Republican had planned to deliver to students at the University of North Carolina. Campus police used pepper spray and Tasers to subdue a crowd gathered to protest the former presidential candidate, invited by a self-styled campus "right-wing youth movement" to speak out against legislation that would grant in-state tuition to the children of undocumented immigrants, known as the DREAM Act. But when protesters broke a window, showering glass on a student, officers shut down the event and escorted Tancredo from the room, the Associated Press reports.

The national "New Way Forward" protest against the Obama-Geithner bank bailout is gaining momentum in Colorado. On the Web site facilitating the action, people are signing up to rally Saturday at banks and public buildings around the country. Denver sign-ups to meet on the west steps of the Capitol have climbed to 145 people.