Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Hudson Town Hall during Wednesday’s Town Council meeting to oppose a plan to open an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Hudson, which is located about 30 minutes northeast of Denver.
A 2023 poll by Pew Research showed that 84% of Americans believe that “special interest groups and lobbyists have too much say in what happens in politics.” In a democratic system, where representatives are intended to listen to the will of the people but are often seen as being swayed by the Wormtongue-like influence of lobbyists, it’s understandable how the profession came to be demonized. While lobbyists are often painted purely as extensions of corporate power into the halls of governance, I always find it interesting to note the extent to which different levels of government lobby against each other – and the amount of taxpayer dollars they spend doing it.
Images of masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents patrolling metropolitan streets have become synonymous with the mass deportation agenda currently underway, although since it was first conceived, the effort has depended on more than just federal resources — in part due to a lack of facilities to hold the thousands of immigrants they are arresting.
Workers from a variety of unions and their allies rallied today in Civic Center Park in support of Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) and Colorado’s labor movement.
More than seven months after it was vetoed by Gov. Jared Polis, a bill that would allow workers to vote only once to form a union – instead of having to conduct a second follow-up vote – will be introduced in the legislature again this year, according to the bill’s sponsors, who joined union members and activists in rallying at the Capitol yesterday.
Activists and community members from Aurora and Denver gathered outside Geo Group-ICE detention facility Monday to demand the release of Jeanette Vizguerra, a prominent immigrant rights activist who was detained earlier this year. Vizguerra’s arrest has sparked outrage and a series of standing protests outside the Aurora detention center from her supporters.
Colorado legislators are moving to strengthen Colorado’s shield law, which protects abortion patients and providers from prosecution by states where abortion is illegal. In December, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Dr. Margaret Daley Carpenter of New York for providing medication abortion to Texas residents in violation of state law. Last week, a Louisiana grand jury indicted Carpenter on similar charges. These cases could challenge the shield laws in place in states where abortion is legal.
Colorado Rep. Junie Joseph (D-Boulder) and Rep. Naquetta Ricks (D-Aurora) held a press conference in response to President Donald Trump’s inauguration and planned actions on immigration.
Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to temporarily preserve emergency care for pregnant people under the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA), a nearly 40-year-old federal law which requires hospitals to not turn away patients.
Colorado’s Democratic legislators have introduced a resolution urging voters to support a ballot initiative to recognize the right to an abortion under the Colorado Constitution and to designate Jan. 22 as Roe v. Wade Day.
