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ADL Mountain States Summer Associate Research Program Celebrates the Start of its Eighth Year

  Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey was the keynote speaker at the opening reception on May 27, 2015 to kick off the 2015 Mountain States Anti-Defamation League Summer Associate Research Program. Mr. Morrissey shared his personal story and insights into his remarkable career in law and public service with the two dozen attorneys and summer associates in attendance. The reception

ADL to Urban Outfitters: Remove Tapestry “Eerily Reminiscent” of Holocaust Garb

  A photo taken by an Anti-Defamation League employee of a tapestry for sale at the Boulder, CO Urban Outfitters store has since made headlines world-wide.  The tapestry’s design was “eerily reminiscent” of the gray and white stripes and pink triangles found on uniforms that gay male prisoners were forced to wear in Nazi concentration camps. While the offending item is no longer

ADL Holds 2015 Legislative Preview Session

The Anti-Defamation League’s Mountain States Region recently held a preview of the upcoming 2015 Colorado General Assembly and training session for those who will serve as legislative liaisons in the coming year. More than 20 individuals gathered on December 3 to learn more about the issues that Colorado legislators will likely consider in the upcoming session, which begins on January

ADL Letter Thanks Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock for Compassionate Response to Immigrant Children

August 4, 2014   Dear Mayor Hancock:   On behalf of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), I write today to thank you for your compassionate response to the humanitarian situation along our nation’s border. We cannot turn a blind eye to the plight of thousands of children fleeing violence in their homelands. We support the City and County of Denver’s application

Join Mountain States ADL for the 2014 Supreme Court Review on July 8

The Anti-Defamation League’s 15th annual Supreme Court Review will be presented to a live audience in Philadelphia and webcasted around the country, including the Mountain States ADL regional office in Denver, on Tuesday, July 8 from 9:45 – 11:30 am Mountain standard time. Law school deans and legal scholars Erwin Chemerinsky (UCI) and Frederick Lawrence (Brandeis), together with Deborah Lauter,