#copolitics

Frustrating how little understanding there is (from lawmakers AND journalists) about the OCEAN of difference between alternate responder programs (like STAR & CAHOOTS) & co-responder models. When police show up, they call the shots, & people in crisis get criminalized-or worse.

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Use our 🛠️🧰Action Kit to craft a personalized message about your priorities for the revised #COSocialStudiesStandards and send your message to [email protected] before the Aug. 17th meeting! #RestoreTheRevisions

Thank you SEIU Local 105 for your endorsement! As a proud union member and advocate for workers' rights in my public school district, I am ready to fight for strong labor protections for our Colorado workers in the State Senate.

What on earth is going on in Boulder

Meanwhile, in #Boulder, former councilmembers are trying to prevent a measure that would ensure more people voting in local elections

It’s a big news day for the library campaign - acclaimed, national best-selling (and local!) author Jon Krakauer has endorsed #YesOn6C 🎉🎉🎉 And check out our new author endorsements section >> boulderlibrarychampions.org/endorsers #boulder #BookTheVote #FundOurLibraries

Bell Policy Center is teaming up with our wonderful partners Mile High United Way to do a live ballot guide presentation via Zoom on the 11 statewide questions. RSVP at the link in the illustration. See you there! #copolitics #BallotReady

We ran into Congressman Joe Neguse this week, and we're grateful for his support for public libraries. #YESOn6C Cynthia Beard (archived) Claire Kelley

Today is national vote early day! Make your voice heard in this critical election by voting in-person, returning your ballot to a ballot drop box, or mailing it today. You can find your nearest voting locations here: sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections

There it is folks. If you want to understand the dangerous axis of illiberalism that has emerged between Christian Nationalists, Right-Wing Israeli Settlers, & the "Strongmen" of Eastern Europe, then this tweet from the face of Christian Nationalism in Colorado cannot be ignored.

#Boulder

“Encampment removals are harmful for people experiencing homelessness, as a plethora of studies and reports document. They extend time in homelessness (counteracting the goals of Safe Zones, as critics note).” via boulder beat boulderbeat.news/2023/10/11/saf…

10 days ago Mayor Mike Coffman received the endorsement of the Colorado Conservative Patriot Alliance, a right-wing supremacist network founded by the former chairman of ‘MAGA Trump Colorado’.

CCPA’s leader boasts that he is “an authentic WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) and personifies everything the Left hates.” Mayor Mike Coffman, will you denounce CCPA’s transphobic, anti-choice, anti-immigrant values and ask them to rescind your endorsement?

#Boulder voters should be aware of their mayoral candidate’s support from far right groups👇

NEW: "The reason things don’t feel “safe” is not because you see homeless people, but because we’ve decided, as a community, that visible homelessness doesn’t require a humane response. What a great message for the kids." dailycamera.com/2023/10/25/let…