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Jun 25, 2014
Statewide Marriage Campaign Issues Statement on 10th Circuit Court Decision Striking Down Utah’s Marriage Ban
Jun 24, 2014
War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing
All across the country, heavily-armed SWAT teams are raiding people’s homes in the middle of the night, often just to search for drugs. It should enrage us that people have needlessly died during these raids, that pets have been shot, and that homes have been ravaged.
Our neighborhoods are not warzones, and police officers should not be treating us like wartime enemies. Any yet,
Jun 19, 2014
Colorado Sheriff to Pay $30K to Woman Held on Immigration Detainer
DENVER – Arapahoe County has agreed to pay $30,000 to Claudia Valdez, a domestic violence victim who called police for help, was arrested herself, and then held in the Arapahoe County Jail at the request of federal immigration authorities for three days after a judge had ordered her release.
Jun 19, 2014
Claudia’s Story: How a Domestic Violence Victim’s Call for Help Resulted in Three Days in Jail and Deportation Proceedings
Claudia Valdez’s story underscores how our system of immigration enforcement is badly broken and why local law enforcement’s participation in immigration enforcement makes our community less safe. Ms. Valdez is a 15-year resident of Denver and a devoted mother of three U.S. citizen children. In June 2012, she made a decision that would dramatically affect the course of her life: fearing for the safety of herself and her children, Ms. Valdez asked a neighbor to call the police for help when a domestic dispute had turned physical in her home.
Jun 19, 2014
Profile of Claudia Valdez
The evening of June 28, 2012, Claudia Valdez-Sandoval called the police for help. She had been fighting with her husband. The fight had turned physical, and she feared for the safety of herself and her three young children. So, she ran to her neighbor’s house with her kids in tow and asked her neighbor to call the police for help.
Jun 12, 2014
Colbert Report Takes on Debtors' Prisons
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Jun 06, 2014
DISH's new accommodations for nursing mothers send the right message
When I became pregnant with my son in 2010, I had no idea what parenthood had in store for me or how my little guy would enrich my life. I did however know that there was one thing that I wanted to provide my son that only I could: breast milk. With the encouragement of my family, friends, and former employer, I was able to provide my son with the benefit of having breast milk while I was away at work. I consider myself lucky to have had the network of support to tackle one of motherhood’s greatest challenges.
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