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ACLU of Colorado and ADL Mountain States Condemn Act of Vandalism at Martin Luther King Jr. Statue

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 22, 2024 ACLU OF COLORADO CONTACT: Erica Tinsley, Interim Director of Communications, etinsley@aclu-co.org, 720-402-3167   The vandalism of the Martin Luther King Jr. Monument in Denver’s City Park is a heinous affront to our community and the legacies of those who struggled for the civil rights of Black, Brown and Indigenous communities. The desecration of this

ADL Deeply Disturbed by Colorado State Lawmaker’s Disruption of Special Legislative Session

  Denver, CO, November 21, 2023 … The Anti-Defamation League Mountain States Region is deeply disturbed that a Colorado state lawmaker attempted to redirect debate on a summer food program for students into a monologue on the Israel-Hamas war and then shouted down a Jewish member of the legislature attempting to respond to her remarks.   Colorado State Representative Elisabeth

Jewish Community Responds to Video of Imam’s Lesson to Young Students that Includes Antisemitic Tropes

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Jewish Community Responds to Video of Imam’s Lesson to Young Students that Includes Antisemitic Tropes Denver CO, October 27, 2023 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), The Colorado Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), and the Rocky Mountain Rabbis and Cantors (RMRC) express serious concern about a lesson taught by a Colorado Imam seen on video teaching young children

Steamboat Springs responds to swastika incident with strength and support 

  According to reports, a swastika was burned into a picnic table this week at a newly refurbished public park near Steamboat Springs High School. Rabbi Kolby Morris-Dahary of Har Mishpacha congregation in Steamboat Springs, speaking on behalf of the community coalition STAND (Steamboat Team to disrupt Antisemitism and Discrimination), said:    “We are deeply hurt, saddened, and outraged at