The Colorado Independent
Protesters Call for Immigration Reform Outside Boehner/Coffman fundraiser
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- Protesters Call for Immigration Reform Outside Boehner/Coffman fundraiser
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- 2:33
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- The demonstrators hope to put pressure on Mike Coffman, who is facing a much more contentious and Latino-heavy district than in past years
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- Protesters March Against Police Brutality in Northwest Denver
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- 5:27
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- A mixed-bag of activists and community members took to the streets of northwest Denver to protest police brutality in solidarity with Ryan Ronquillo and Mike Brown
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- EPA Holds Hearings on Emissions Regulation in Denver
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- 5:18
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Tuesday was a busy day in the mile-high city. Check out everything that was going on, from hearings to rallies to counter-rallies!
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- Bob Beauprez on EPA emissions regulation
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- 2:27
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- The Independent speaks with gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez at a rally protesting the EPA's proposed regulations for coal-fired power plants, held at the state capitol in Denver on Tuesday.
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- A Night of News Poetry 7/26/14
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- 1:16:58
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- TCI hosted a panel discussion about the intersection of poetry and public life featuring five local poets. The event was held at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, CO. Here is footage of the full event, in case you missed it!
Moderated by Tessa Cheek
Filmed by Nat Stein and Charlie Theobald
Attended by the few, the brave, the literary.
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- Bob Beauprez speaks at pro-coal rally during EPA carbon reduction hearings
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- 4:43
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- for full story, visit http://www.coloradoindependent.com/
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- 1 2012 12 26 06 21 29 050
- Runtime
- 9:21
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- raw footage of use of force incident at Denver jail. For full story visit http://www.coloradoindependent.com/
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- 2 2012 12 26 06 21 29 002
- Runtime
- 9:21
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- raw footage of Denver jail use of force incident. For detail of even visit http://www.coloradoindependent.com/
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- 3 2012 12 26 06 21 29 002
- Runtime
- 9:21
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- raw footage of Denver jail use of force incident. For detail of even visit http://www.coloradoindependent.com/
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- 4 2012 12 26 06 21 29 033
- Runtime
- 9:21
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- raw footage of Denver jail use of force incident. For detail of even visit http://www.coloradoindependent.com/
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- S port removal
- Runtime
- 9:21
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- raw footage of Denver jail use of force incident. For detail of even visit http://www.coloradoindependent.com/
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- Valerio use of force incident at Denver jail
- Runtime
- 1:15
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- for full story, visit The Colorado Independent. This footage has been edited to combine several security camera angles, raw footage is available on our channel.
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- Colorado Independent — Isaiah Moreno Tasing, Denver jail
- Runtime
- 2:49
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- this video contains graphic content.
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- Hickenlooper opposes local control of fracking initiatives
- Runtime
- 9:37
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- July 17, 2014 — Governor John Hickenlooper announces his opposition to two potential ballot initiatives that would limit oil and gas development in Colorado. Read more here: http://www.coloradoindependent.com/148285/hickenlooper-sides-with-industry-on-local-control-over-fracking-initiatives
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- Denver deputy strikes inmate
- Runtime
- 0:17
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- leaked footage to The Colorado Independent, read the story here: http://www.coloradoindependent.com/148272/exclusive-video-denver-sheriff-deputy-belted-then-kicked-inmate-who-posed-no-apparent-threat
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- Udall introduces the "Not My Boss's Business Act"
- Runtime
- 3:02
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- DENVER — Senator Mark Udall joined women's health advocates today to introduce a bill intended to overturn the Supreme Court's recent Hobby Lobby decision. Read about it in The Colorado Independent.
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- First same-sex couple to officially marry in Denver talk marriage equality with son
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- 0:55
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Fran and Anna Simon discuss marriage equality with their son Jeremy, 7. The Simons testified as a family in favor of the Colorado state law allowing civil unions. When Denver Clerk Clerk Debra Johnson began issuing same-sex marriage licenses, they were the first to officially get hitched.
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- Local Activists Call for End of Parental Deportations
- Runtime
- 1:57
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- The press conference was held by Rights of All People and American Friends Service Committee, demanding president Obama to use executive power to prevent deportations that break families apart.
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- Denver Reacts to 10th Circuit Gay Marriage Decision
- Runtime
- 2:41
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Read all about this pivotal moment in the gay rights movement at our website, coloradoindependent.com
Music-- HESPEROCALIS, by Nate Koch
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- Rayburn CD 5 Concession Speech
- Runtime
- 6:21
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
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- Tancredo congratulates Beauprez on 2014 Colorado GOP gubernatorial primary win
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Trailing establishment favorite Bob Beauprez in a four-way primary for the GOP gubernatorial nomination in Colorado, former Representative Tom Tancredo pulls the plug and makes the call. He promises to do whatever he can to support Beauprez's campaign.
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- Denver PrideFest 2014
- Runtime
- 2:25
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
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- Ludlow, 100 Years Later: A Colorado Independent Event
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- 1:20:45
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Some wounds take longer to heal than others.
One hundred years ago this week 11 children and two women died at Ludlow, a tent colony of workers striking against the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. The Colorado Coal War also took countless more victims — striking miners, union busters hired by the Rockefellers and national militia dispatched by a Governor on behalf of the world's richest family.
The Colorado Independent is marking the anniversary with a multimedia series about the scabs left a century after the Ludlow Massacre.
On Thursday April 10, the Independent sponsored a forum of people whose lives, rather directly or indirectly, have been shaped by the events at Ludlow. They include: Bob Butero, Region 4 director of the United Mine Workers Union and a third-generation Colorado miner; Frank and Mary Petrucci, the son of a striker at Ludlow and his daughter, named after her grandmother who survived the massacre; Dave Mason, Colorado's p...
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- Ludlow Massacre Collective Memory Panel: Highlights
- Runtime
- 3:22
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Some wounds take longer to heal than others.
One hundred years ago this week 11 children and two women died at Ludlow, a tent colony of workers striking against the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. The Colorado Coal War also took countless more victims — striking miners, union busters hired by the Rockefellers and national militia dispatched by a Governor on behalf of the world's richest family.
The Colorado Independent is marking the anniversary with a multimedia series about the scabs left a century after the Ludlow Massacre.
On Thursday April 10, the Independent sponsored a forum of people whose lives, rather directly or indirectly, have been shaped by the events at Ludlow. They include: Bob Butero, Region 4 director of the United Mine Workers Union and a third-generation Colorado miner; Frank and Mary Petrucci, the son of a striker at Ludlow and his daughter, named after her grandmother who survived the massacre; Dave Mason, Colorado's p...
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- Irish Dancers Celebrate 2013 St. Patricks Day at Colorado State Capitol
- Runtime
- 0:14
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- From The Colorado Independent
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- EVENT: Death Penalty Panel
- Runtime
- 1:27:08
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- When is civil society justified to take a life — if ever?
That was the topic of conversation last night as four panelists who have personal and professional experience with the death penalty fielded questions about the issue. The forum was part of a monthly series of public discussions hosted by The Colorado Independent.
Read more about the event: http://www.coloradoindependent.com/146274/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-the-death-penalty
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- Death Penalty Panel: Highlights
- Runtime
- 3:01
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- When is civil society justified to take a life — if ever?
That was the topic of conversation last night as four panelists who have personal and professional experience with the death penalty fielded questions about the issue. The forum was part of a monthly series of public discussions hosted by The Colorado Independent.
Read more about the event: http://www.coloradoindependent.com/146274/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-the-death-penalty
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- Legalize running with scissors - Colorado State Representative Cheri Gerou
- Runtime
- 0:27
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Rep. Gerou offers a satirical amendment to a bill that would allow Colorado bars to stay open as late as their communities want.
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- Colorado State House HB 14-1110 debate
- Runtime
- 2:53
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
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- Senator Ulibarri on partisan squabble over nonpartisan election reform bill
- Runtime
- 15:02
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- from the floor of the Colorado State Senate
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- Unprovoked: Courtroom video shows Denver sheriff's deputy attacking shackled inmate
- Runtime
- 1:32
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- DENVER — Denver's safety department waited a year to discipline a sheriff's deputy for grabbing a man who was appearing before a judge in a Denver County courtroom and slamming him into a wall.
Read the full story by Susan Greene at The Colorado Independent, here: http://www.coloradoindependent.com/145994/unprovoked-courtroom-video-lovingier-sheriffs-deputy-attacking-waller
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- Weld County Sheriff talks effort to repeal magazine band
- Runtime
- 1:01
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
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- Colorado landowners powerless on 'federal unit' controlled by Shell: Bianca Abeyta
- Runtime
- 1:38
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Bianca and Ben Abeyta built their house an hour south of Pueblo themselves. They own their mineral rights and said no to Shell when approached to lease them for fracking. Now a 'paperwork exercise' known as federal units may bring oil and gas development to their land anyway.
Read the full multimedia feature here: http://thecoloradoindepende.wix.com/colo-indy-specials#!fracking/c199t
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- Federal Frack: Water rights
- Runtime
- 3:13
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Water rights and access are highly contested in arid southern Colorado. After battling to secure enough water for their town, the residents of Gardner, Colo. now fear that impending oil and gas development may contaminate their limited water supply.
Read the full multimedia feature here: http://thecoloradoindepende.wix.com/colo-indy-specials#!fracking/c199t
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- Bill to increase benefits for Aid to the Needy Disabled program receives bipartisan support
- Runtime
- 0:53
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
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- Littwin and Krieger on the Super Bowl
- Runtime
- 12:42
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Mike Littwin and Dave Krieger talk Broncos, Manning v Elway and the Fort Lee-Washington Bridge. Dave even makes a game-winner prediction. "I'm biased, but take the points."
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- Jamie Lewis speaks to his experience on Colorado's Aid to the Needy Disabled program
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Former city councilman and Mayor of Salida, Colorado, Jamie Lewis is currently a community liaison for the Colorado Cross Disabilities Coalition.
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- Digital Public Records in a post-Chris Christie universe
- Runtime
- 0:33
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Sen. Mike Johnston (D-Denver) muses on the possible need to update Colorado's open records laws for the digital age.
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- A Senate President's Wish List: Make education and child care affordable
- Runtime
- 2:55
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Senate President Morgan Carroll speaks to skyrocketing education costs in Colorado. Student debt, she says, now amounts to indentured servitude.
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- What's holding back affordable, transit oriented housing in Colorado?
- Runtime
- 1:39
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- You've seen 'em — the fields of mid-rise condos that spring up whenever a new light rail stop is made known. But who gets to live there? Senate President Morgan Carroll chats with Colorado Independent columnist Mike Littwin about what's holding back affordable housing in our state.
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- Partisan politics, are they invading Colorado?
- Runtime
- 3:00
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Colorado Senate President Morgan Carroll discusses the effect of partisan politics on lawmaking in the 2014 session.
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- Cadman v. Carroll: Colorado Senate President speaks to rocky start of 2014 legislative session
- Runtime
- 4:02
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Just days into the session, Senate Minority Leader Bill Cadman accused president Morgan Carroll of a historic breach of progress when a bill to repeal mandatory background checks brought by senate newbie — George Rivera, elected by recall — was delayed. President Carroll explains what happened behind the scenes of an epic on-the-floor blowout.
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- Recalls, will they ever go away? Senate President Carroll says.... no.
- Runtime
- 2:38
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
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- Sen. Lundberg on bill to CORA goernmental associations
- Runtime
- 0:54
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Jan. 27, 2014 — Sen. Kevin Lundberg discusses his bill to extend the Colorado Open Records Act over associations of elected officials.
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- Sen. Johnston on CORA vs. Sunshine Laws
- Runtime
- 1:20
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Jan. 27, 2014 — Sen. Mike Johnston discusses the difference between Colorado's open records policy and its sunshine law.
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- Colorado Senate President Carroll talks legislative agenda, election-year politics
- Runtime
- 1:04:47
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Colorado Senate President Morgan Carroll sits down at the Denver Press Club with the Colorado Independent and some 40 members of the public to discuss the 2014 legislative session launched two weeks ago and the current political dynamics at play in our swing-state state this election year.
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- Denver 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. Marade
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- 3:36
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Thousands gathered in City Park January 20 for one of the nation's largest parade-marches in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Participants honored King's life and work while calling attention to the ongoing fight for equality of all kinds in the United States and across the world.
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- Senator George Rivera on his first legislative session
- Runtime
- 2:10
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- The Colorado Independent's Mike Littwin chats with newly elected senator George Rivera of Pueblo about his plans for the upcoming 2014 Colorado legislative session. Rivera was elected in a special recall election when constituents disagreed with former Senator Angela Giron's pro gun control votes.
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- Bernie Herpin on his first legislative session
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- 1:12
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- The Colorado Independent chats with Senator Bernie Herpin, recently elected to represent district 11 of Colorado Springs in a special recall election over gun control, on the opening day of the 2014 legislative session.
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- Ashley Wheeland on LGBT Healthcare
- Runtime
- 0:51
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Director of Health Policy at LGBTQ rights organization One Colorado, Ashley Wheeland discusses breaking the silence between patient and provider when it comes to sexual orientation and gender identity.
Along with the Denver Medical Society and the Colorado Medical Society, Wheeland has been asking patients and providers in Colorado about LGBT specific healthcare as well as directing One's advocacy for the healthcare rights of transgender individuals.

