Nationwide protests bring thousands to Russia’s streets
MOSCOW — Russia’s opposition, often written off by critics as a small and irrelevant coterie of privileged urbanites, put on an impressive nationwide show of strength Sunday with dozens of protest...
View ArticleRussian protest leader Alexei Navalny gets 15 days in jail
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV MOSCOW (AP) — The wave of nationwide demonstrations that shook Russia’s long dormant political scene over the weekend showed a new face of protest: mostly...
View ArticleRally planned for Saturday to protest imminent closure of popular Evergreen...
Expect howls of resistance — perhaps even a snarl or two — as backers of a popular Evergreen dog park plan a weekend protest of the imminent closure of Elk Meadow Park by Jefferson County officials....
View ArticleAmericans’ right to protest is in grave danger, United Nations warns
By Amanda Erickson, The Washington Post The right to protest is fundamental to American democracy. The country was born, after all, out of decades of civil disobedience by people angry about taxation...
View Article7 protesters arrested for handing out free joints near U.S. Capitol
WASHINGTON — The conflict between federal and local laws on marijuana played out in the shadow of the Capitol on Thursday, when seven pro-pot activists were arrested for doing something that’s been...
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March For Science rally draws largest crowd downtown since Women’s March
Daniel Brenner, Special to the Denver PostA large group listens to speakers during the March for Science Saturday, April 22, 2017 in Civic Center Park in Denver. The group gathered to support the...
View ArticlePHOTOS: March For Science rally draws a huge crowd to downtown Denver
Thousands of scientists and science supporters joined the March For Science through downtown Denver Saturday in the city’s largest rally since the Women’s March in January. In cities across the globe...
View ArticleNewest Silicon Valley perk: Paid time off to protest Trump
Silicon Valley firms have long been known for offering a litany of employee perks: Home-cooked lunches, free massages, climbing walls and dog-friendly offices. Now some are adding yet another incentive...
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Broncos LB Brandon Marshall opens up about protests, Colin Kaepernick being...
In early March, when most eyes in the NFL world were fixated on the scouting combine in Indianapolis, Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall stood on a stage inside Harvard’s School of Education in...
View ArticleMarchers use Trump’s 100th day to protest climate policies
WASHINGTON — Thousands of people across the U.S. are marching on President Donald Trump’s hundredth day in office to demand action on climate change. In Washington, D.C., large crowds on Saturday made...
View ArticleArrests made as thousands rally in U.S. for and against Trump
SEATTLE — Tens of thousands across the country peacefully chanted, picketed and protested Monday against President Donald Trump’s immigration and labor policies on May Day, despite a small pocket of...
View ArticleA scientist who studies protest says “the resistance” isn’t slowing down...
Sociologist Dana Fisher moved to Washington for the protests. She’d been studying environmental activism for more than a decade at Columbia University, and when she was offered a job as director of the...
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Tough legacy reverberates more than half a century after Rocky Flats started...
ARVADA — Sixty-five years after workers at Rocky Flats began making the plutonium pits for America’s nuclear weapons arsenal, the former plant’s troubled history continued to reverberate Monday as...
View ArticleGrisly 24-hour period leaves 4 dead in Venezuela unrest
By Hannah Dreier and Christine Armario, The Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela — Business owners shuttered shops, a burned police station stood charred black and a state officer in western Venezuela...
View ArticleNew death in Venezuela puts toll at level of 2014 unrest
SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (AP) — Legions of national guardsmen and military helicopters began descending on a western Venezuela state Wednesday where an outbreak of looting and political violence left...
View ArticlePortland mayor asks feds to bar free-speech and anti-sharia rallies after...
The mayor of Portland, Ore., is calling on federal authorities to cancel a pair of upcoming rallies organized by conservative groups, saying the city was still “in shock” after two men were fatally...
View ArticleDenver group joins national protests for gun violence awareness
A couple dozen people, all clad in orange, took to Denver streets midday Saturday demanding that communities be free of gun violence. Demonstrators started in Highland Park and marched south,...
View ArticleArrests made at downtown Boulder rally staged by “Western chauvinist” group
At least four people were detained today at a rally on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall at which about two dozen members of a self-described “Western chauvinist” group were met by roughly 200...
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Hundreds show up for Denver’s March for Truth Saturday afternoon
A few hundred people showed up for Denver’s March for Truth rally at Commons Park Saturday, calling for greater transparency regarding President Donald Trump’s relationship with Russia. The protest was...
View ArticleCan your off-hours political activism get you in trouble at work?
In recent weeks, the story of a New Jersey lawyer whose off-hours political activism was brought to the attention of her employer went viral because of the unusual way it happened: A congressman’s...
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