What you can do to fight for progress this week (March 28)
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We’re previous the midway position in the 2022 session of the Colorado legislature, and it is shaping up to be an additional historic 12 months of truth-dependent progressive alternatives to the challenges confronted by Colorado families of every single description. At the similar time, the progressive vast majority in the Colorado Common Assembly has stopped horrible laws from the far suitable that would make abortion a felony, dismantle environmental protections, and endanger general public well being by embracing quack drugs.
A single of our most significant legislative priorities of 2022 is Colorado’s Clean Slate Monthly bill, laws to aid the job sector and the hundreds of Coloradans keen to get back again to work by sealing the records of qualified Coloradans who have concluded their sentence, waited a legally defined period of time of time past that, and have not reoffended. A single of the major factors for recidivism is the limitations faced obtaining function, housing, and training as offenders reintegrate with culture.
Simply click here to study extra about the Clean Slate Bill, Senate Monthly bill 22-099, and then get in touch with your State Senator and urge them to assistance this laws when it arrives to the Senate ground.
For a lot more on laws we’re tracking this session, see the PNC 2022 Monthly bill Tracker–updated day by day as fantastic bills move ahead and terrible expenses die.
Many thanks to overpowering demand, we’re down to very restricted sizes and portions for our SORRY ABOUT LAUREN BOEBERT T-shirts! Thanks to anyone who acquired a shirt to allow America know Boebert doesn’t represent most of Colorado. Send us a image carrying your shirt in a picturesque locale, or tag us @ProgressNowCO on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook!
Right here are a few additional ways to make a difference for the 7 days of March 28, 2022:
The Wealthy Bought Richer: The Politics of Financial Inequality with Dr. Steve DelCastillo
Steve DelCastillo, PhD, is presently the Director of the Center for New Directions in Politics and Community Policy. He is an economist getting obtained his PhD from the College of Colorado Boulder. His get the job done and analysis have centered in the regions of labor economics and political overall economy. His past operate assignments have incorporated the Governor’s Office environment, the Heart for Artistic Management, and Kaiser Permanente. Illustrations of his operate have involved: a member of workforce that built a Strategic Management System and growth of a Cultural Competence Evaluation Index.
When: Tuesday, March 29 at 12:30pm
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Transgender Day of Visibility: 1st Friday on Santa Fe
Transgender Working day of Visibility (TDoV) is a day to rejoice transgender and gender expansive persons, and the progress we have designed in developing a culture that celebrates genuine self-expression. The Transgender Center of the Rockies (TCR) is partnering with the Arts District on Santa Fe to celebrate TDoV this calendar year for the duration of Initially Friday on April 1.
When: Friday, April 1 at 5:30pm
Where by: Art District on Santa Fe, 5252 Santa Fe Generate, Denver
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21st Once-a-year Celebration “Community Resilience as an Vital Pathway to Justice”
The César E Chávez Peace and Justice Committee of Denver started honoring the late chief in 2002. His memory carries on by means of the get the job done of the local community. Each individual 12 months we march to honor the spirit of Cesar Chavez. Subsequent the march is a application such as an awards presentation, poetry, artwork, songs, speakers, dancers and food.
When: Saturday, April 2 at 8:30am
Wherever: St. John Francis Regis Chapel, 3333 Regis Blvd, Denver
Preserve the Date: Colorado Purchaser Health Initiative: Wellbeing Care Day of Motion Pt. 2
Be part of us for the 2nd part of this year’s Health Treatment Day of Motion as we walk you by way of the lobbying method and information you through it at the point out Capitol!
When: Tuesday, April 5 at 9:00am
Where: Colorado Point out Capitol, Denver
Conserve the Date: History Colorado: Persons Pleasure & Promise: The Tale of the Dockum Sit-In with Prisca Barnes
In July 1958, Black students collected at downtown Wichita’s Dockum Drugstore to phase a peaceful protest from the unequal exercise of segregation. Weary of currently being denied obtain to the city’s movie theaters and eating places, pupils took motion and turned their notice to the lunch counter at the common drugstore. Men and women Pride & Guarantee tells the untold story of the first youth-led lunch counter sit-in that revolutionized the Civil Legal rights Movement. By a visual displays, website visitors of “People, Satisfaction, and Promise” will get to know the minor-identified story of the Dockum Sit-in. Attendees will then hear from creator Prisca Barnes and view a presentation on the Sit-In. A ebook signing will choose position soon after the function.
When: Friday, April 8 at 6:30pm
Where by: Record Colorado, 1200 Broadway, Denver
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Help save the Day: Colorado Sierra Club: (Digital) Conservation Activist Education
Contacting all conservation enthusiasts! Be part of us for a early morning of schooling, community, and action. For the duration of this celebration, you will community with Sierra Club associates and supporters throughout the condition, discover about our conservation priorities and application, and most importantly- consider action!
When: Sunday, April 10 at 9:00am
Thanks yet again! We’ll see you subsequent week.
Sincerely,
Sara Loflin, Executive Director
Sara Loflin, Executive Director
