Dear Powerful and Prophetic Leaders, Amazed! Inspired! Grateful! On behalf of Coloradans to Stop Predatory Payday Loans and Together Colorado, we thank you for your excellent performance in achieving our target goal for signature collection. It is uplifting to be celebrating a terrific milestone this week, as we delivered 78 boxes of petitions which includes […]
Pueblo’s Energy Future, Beyond Coal Campaign, Pueblo League of Women Voters and the Sierra Club hosted a Town Hall forum to discuss Xcel Energy’s plans to retire two coal fired power plants near Pueblo and replace the generation with wind and solar. In an effort to inform the community, Pueblo’s Energy Future co-hosted a Clean […]
In April 2018, an incident occurred at Wyatt Academy in which the Restorative Justice Coordinator was caught on camera inciting two elementary-aged girls to fight physically. The incident was not handled properly by the administration of the school. As a result, in May 2018, the Restorative Justice staff member involved and three school administrators, the […]
On June 13, Together Colorado leaders with the Loyola Social Justice Ministry held a public action to examine the school to prison pipeline. Thank you to all attendees for showing support for Denver Public School students. We truly need to put our faith into action and stop the school to prison pipeline crisis. Every student […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 29, 2018 Contact: Laura Peniche, [email protected], (303) 999-1336 Ana Rodriguez, [email protected], (720) 722-4272 Cristian Solano-Córdova, [email protected], (720) 434-4632 DENVER, CO – This morning Governor Hickenlooper signed SB 18-108 into law, a common sense proposal that passed the Colorado State Legislature with strong bipartisan support. The I Drive Colorado campaign, organizations and […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Felicia Griffin, Executive Director, United for a New Economy (UNE) – [email protected] – 720-626-5746 Following the end of Colorado’s 2018 legislative session, organizations representing a diverse range of communities across the state launched a new initiative highlighting successes and next steps for a number of key initiatives aimed at boosting prosperity for hard-working Coloradans. […]
Somehow I made it this far in life without knowing about Stanislav Petrov, the man who may have saved the world from nuclear annihilation. Petrov was a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces in 1983, when he received a warning from the computerized Soviet early warning system of an imminent nuclear attack from […]
This past Sunday I was sharing with my congregation the story of Elijah in 1st Kings. Many of you know the story. He’d stood up for God, he’d stood up to the king, and he was on the run. He went to Mt. Horeb, and he waited. And then in chapter 19, verses 11-13, it […]
We don’t have to buy into the enmity that we see in so much of our national discourse. We don’t have to allow others to mold our feelings and opinions. John Philip Newell, the poet, peacemaker, minister and scholar, offers us a different vision, an alternative vision, a vision that may seem wildly at odds […]
