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TOLTZ | Remembering the victims of senseless school violence
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On a very hot sunny Saturday afternoon this month, I attended yet another gun violence prevention protest rally on the west steps of Denver’s Colorado State Capitol. This one was a local version of the national March on the NRA, a student-activist led movement of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student survivors of the Valentine’s Day 2018 school shooting. MSD students…
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Colorado politicos react to young people’s marches on gun violence
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DENVER – Saturday was a day for Democrats across Colorado, as the next generation marched on gun violence across the state and across the country. Before the marches even started in Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and other parks and streets, Sen. Mike Merrifield of Colorado Springs said young activists were winning the debate on guns…
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Denver’s March for Our Lives: ‘No more silence, end gun violence’
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DENVER – Luna Rosenzweig was fed up. She was in an ocean of teenagers in Denver’s Civic Center Park Saturday afternoon, demanding an end to a sea of bloodshed on school campuses across the country. “We deserve not to die in our schools,” the sign-toting sophomore from Denver’s East High School said near the stage at…
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New Era Colorado to capitalize on March for Our Lives Saturday in Denver
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New Era Colorado hopes to harness the political power of Saturday’s March for Our Lives, a demonstration against gun violence, in Denver. New Era is the long-established Colorado organization for politically engaged millennials from the left, and Saturday it hopes to sign up young voters beginning at 2 p.m. at the Capitol, east of the…
