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Howard Schultz: Union Buster in Chief
The Starbucks CEO has stepped down. His legacy? The destruction of an iconic brand with sloppy, sleazy union busting.
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Think Tank’s Director Not Concerned That His Constitutional ‘Scholar’ Has ‘No Idea’ Who Won the 2020 Prez Election
Every second Saturday of the month at its headquarters on 17th Avenue, the Independence Institute hosts a “Barter Market,” ostensibly for freedom-loving citizens to exchange goods and avoid sales tax. Items listed as either on offer or requested at the monthly gathering include organic local food items, homemade candles and guitar lessons, but also more conspiracy-minded products like “EMF protection clothing,” chlorine dioxide (a dangerous solution billed as a cure-all, including for COVID), and accounting services to “opt out of the IRS.”
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Silverii: Bravo to House Democrats For Busting the GOP Filibuster on Gun Safety Bills.
On Saturday, Democrats finally used the rules of procedure in the Colorado House of Representatives to say to Republicans what those of us who put Democrats in charge of seventy percent of the lower chamber of the state legislature have been hoping they’d say for a pretty long time, “enough.”
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Poem: Christian Democracy
Author’s Note: Indigenous science writer and wise woman Robin Wall Kimmerer wants to help correct English’s objectification of the natural world. She has been advocating a change to our use of the third person neuter pronoun “it” for things that are very much alive for animists and deep ecologists. Her suggestion substitutes “ki” for “it” – utilizing a suffix from her Potawatomi tradition which means “from the living earth.” As a bridge to that change, I’ve taken to adding the suffix “ki” to “it” in my poetry.
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Colorado Has a Chance to Keep Families Connected; Yes to Ending Prison Phone Fees
I am a step-mother of an incredible young man who is currently serving time at the Sterling Correctional Facility almost 130 miles from Denver. My husband was also formerly incarcerated. He is no longer incarcerated, but he served 13 years in prison. My personal experience in trying to keep my family together while suffering the tremendous financial hardship caused by expensive for-profit communications companies who enrich themselves at the expense of those least able to afford it is why I’m in support of legislation pending in Colorado to provide free phone calls to the families who are trying to connect with their loved ones in prison.
