Commentary

It’s time for women to be unapologetically inconsiderate of those who are unapologetically inconsiderate of us.

October 20, 2020 1 0 Callea Sherrill

VOICES CONTRIBUTION: Story and Photos by Callea Sherrill The Denver Women’s March, October 17th, 2020 On a warm and overcast Saturday, just before 1:00 pm, a group of about 300 women and their allies gathered outside the Fillmore Auditorium…

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Guest Column Opinion: Bite the bullet for Biden. It’s important.

September 12, 2020 Like 0 Guest Contributor

by Bill Weinberg It is critically important that Trumpism—a political phenomenon that represents an updated version of classical fascism—is politically defeated. And this must mean a massive, overwhelming defeat for Trump in the November election. I cannot imagine the…

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Fight or Flight: I did not hear you. Don’t shoot.

August 31, 2020 Like 0 Darren O'Connor

The other day I was at a protest and began filming just before an arrest occurred. I stayed close to the conflict zone between police and protesters. I realized suddenly when people started yelling and reacting to being pepper-sprayed…

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Denver: You have more than a problem with Anarchists, you have a “Proud Boys are friends with your Officers” problem.

August 27, 2020 Like 0 redtornado

<Updated August 29th, 2020 to include Saturday’s event with Denver Police Department firing on non-violent protestors while mingling with armed White Supremacists. We are unable to see viewing Off-Meta Media’s stream where there was a need for police to escalate. We…

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Is Aurora Police Department showing its colors (again)?

July 30, 2020 Like 0 redtornado

A constitutional crisis and civil unrest is taking place in America – amidst a pandemic, but it’s nothing new in our history. As we witness America in crisis, from failing miserably at dealing with a pandemic, to a sitting President…

Magazine

Faces of Summer: Black Lives Matter Edition

July 23, 2020 Like 0 editor

In the end, a destination we haven’t reached and I’m not sure we ever will, history will remember this year, and these protests, in the same ways that history remembers the Civil Rights era of the 1960s.…

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Aurora Police use unnecessary force at a peaceful vigil for Elijah McClain

June 28, 2020 Like 0 redtornado

*Updated June 29th, 2020 to reflect the breaking story of photographs of Aurora police officers posing in the carotid chokehold at the site where Elijah McClain was killed by 3 Aurora police officers. Elijah McClain was a 23-year-old,…

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Aurora Councilwoman under attack for supporting Black Lives Matter

June 24, 2020 Like 0 redtornado

Below is a press release sent to us by LGBTQ Aurora Councilwoman, Alison Coombs, regarding the call for her resignation for speaking out against police brutality. The charge against Ms. Coombs was initially led by Aurora Fraternal Order of Police Lodge…

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The Voices you don’t always know are there. 1000 Erieites stand in solidarity June 13th, 2020

June 17, 2020 Like 0 redtornado

Twelve days ago my friend, Pat Reed, suggested we plan a march for racial justice in Erie. I jumped in without hesitation. I thought, Okay, there will be maybe 20 of us to show up marching down the street…

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Erie Colorado kicks off Being a Better Neighbor. Plans Community March for Sat. June 13th

June 12, 2020 1 0 redtornado

Having lived in Erie for close to 30 years, I have seen it change from a small, rural town that was once the center of Colorado’s coal-mining to a bustling downtown with 4-star restaurants where there was once only two…