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Comment by hemenwaykid on September 2, 2009 at 6:11pm

Hey Denver et al,

The regional gathering is slowly growing closer, and I would like to start getting a rough guess of how many Coloradans are going. So as to avoid cluttering up this page, if you are planning on going--or if you need any information about it--it's posted as an Event. Please RSVP or message me!

-becca

Comment by Litissimo on August 31, 2009 at 1:30am

Posting this everywhere I can...hope you can hear me.

Dear Young America,

Hi. I've missed you. You've grown distant lately...quiet, introspective, as if you're too busy for me. Remember the times we had last fall? When hope was in the air and we spent months together working to bring about change? Remember all that we accomplished? Remember how we took the world by storm?

The fight isn't over. Maybe you never cared about health care reform, but I did, and you made me feel like my cares were yours and yours were mine, like we were in it together. In 1994 the last major attempt to reform our country's health care system died under the weight of fear, politics, and lobbying. I was eight years old then, and had no idea the impact the death of that bill would have. For the last fifteen years the country has been distracted by war and economic collapse, and I've grown up under a system that puts my care in the hands of people who want to make money off of me. I have had to give up medication that cured heartburn for medication that caused depression because they cut a deal with a drug company. I have listened to my friends say, "I just try not to get sick," because for them to insure themselves—young, healthy, without pre-existing conditions— would cost more than it does to put a roof over their heads. I have watched my wages sit still while my employer creaks under the weight of paying for my medical insurance.

For the sake of today's eight-year olds, let's not let history repeat itself. This may be the best chance we have to enact change in our lifetimes. It may be the only chance. I do not want my children to grow up under the system I grew up under. I do not want to have to choose between care for them and care for myself. I do not want to have to choose between funding their dreams and funding their medication while investors, board members, and CEOs grow rich off of my premiums and co-payments.

There are a lot of very loud, very scared, very angry people fighting against reform. Some of them have the best intentions in the world. Some of them do not. I don't care who is who, and neither should you. I grudge no one their right to protest, but if no one opposes them they will keep our country shackled to a system that is broken. If we do nothing, while the rest of the world moves into the 21st century, our country will stay mired in an outmoded medical dystopia.

So it's time to get loud, and it's time to stand up to those who would drive us into the ground. The future is ours to write, ours to protect, ours to create, and if we do not seize our role in it those who created the present will do it for us.
Do something.

Anything. Write your representatives, call them, go to town halls, make videos, write e-mails, stand up to your co-workers, confront strangers you overhear talking on the bus. Whatever you do, it will be more than if you did nothing. However uncomfortable speaking out might be, it will be more comfortable than living forever with the knowledge that you sat quietly and did nothing while the representatives that you brought to power searched desperately for evidence of your support and couldn't find it.

Congressional supporters of reform cannot fight this alone. The president cannot fight this alone. Take risks. Stand up. Speak out. If all you do is reach one person you have succeeded. If all you do is back up someone else who reaches one person, you have succeeded. If all you do is leave a legacy of resistance so that historians can say, "they tried," you have succeeded.
It's not too late to change the course of our nation's history.

So let's do it.

Comment by Fight With Tools on June 24, 2009 at 7:47pm

Hey Denver! We just posted some exciting events that are going on in Denver! Please take a look and see what you can make!

Comment by Russ Cordova on May 7, 2009 at 11:09am

Free cocktails, food, and beatz...COME CELEBRATE WITH US!

Comment by Jess on April 27, 2009 at 3:42pm

Hi friends! Myself and ProVets would love to see you all at two really exciting events coming up:

The first one is this Saturday, May 2 at Primitive Soul Tattoo in Lakewood, off Wadsworth and Eastman. 1pm-9pm.

ART FUNK is a live art/graffiti show where all artwork is auctioned off to benefit Denver and JeffCo public schools. We are working with a few organizations to participate as well. Not only are we going to be helping kids through a number of avenues, but there will be BEER! And a raffle for $200 worth of tattoo work. Bring a can of food for Fight with Food as well.

Our second event, the biggie, is the official ProVets launch/unveiling event at the Walnut Room in Denver on Thursday, May 7. Doors at 7, $5 cover with proceeds going to ProVets.

A number of local bands, including an acoustic set by our own Jeff Englehart, will be featured and are graciously lending their time and talent. We're VERY excited about this and hope to see you all. Cash donations will definitely not be turned down and will go towards materials and upcoming events. And of course, ProVets TSHIRTS BY DAN.

If you have questions, contact myself (303-506-7300) or Dan (720-206-9570) or drop us a line here on FWT.

THANK YOU ALL for your support!

I see my other flier is still below, here's one for ART FUNK :)

Comment by Jess on March 29, 2009 at 3:08pm

Comment by Mazeman on March 19, 2009 at 2:57pm

We need a group on the East Side...

Comment by Dan on February 12, 2009 at 8:10pm

Here is the link to copy and paste into your web browser...so you can officially sign up to volunteer with habitat

http://www.habitatmetrodenver.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=103&Itemid=138

Comment by Dan on January 31, 2009 at 11:54am

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY / FIGHT WITH TOOLS Building and Connecting
Okay so here are the dates for March
5th 6th and 12th

The address for this site is 7124 W 68th Ave 80003 Arvada
For those dates it will either be framing and/or roofing (trusses,
sheathing, shingles).

If you volunteer on one or all the days we ask you to work the full day which is from 9am to 4:30 Pm for more info call me at 720-206-9570 or give trisha the volunteer coordinator a call at 303-534-2929 (X120) and just let her know that Dan from the Denver outlet sent you :D
Or check out the website

http://habitatmetrodenver.org/ and click the volunteer tab.

Dan Conerd

Comment by Joshua on January 26, 2009 at 3:45pm

A group of high school students is lobbying for legislation that they hope will blow away the plastic shopping bags that litter Colorado's landscape.
The Kent Denver School students have lined up Sen. Jennifer Veiga, D-Denver, to sponsor a bill that would eliminate the plastic tote sacks from supermarkets and other large stores in three years.
"Colorado has been a leader in renewable energy, and I would hope that we will be a leader in this issue as well," said Veiga.
Rep. Joe Miklosi, D-Denver, has agreed to sponsor the bill in the House.
"I used to think that our waste was taken care of . . . that our trash went away," said Laura Abelman, 16, a Kent junior who appeared with other students at a news conference Sunday. "Plastic bags are detrimental to wildlife and the environment."
The bill, introduced Friday, would require shoppers to pay 6 cents for each plastic bag they used.
The vendor and the state, which would use the money to increase environmental awareness, would split the fee evenly.
The proposal would apply only to businesses that are the largest sources of the bags — stores of 10,000 square feet or more and those that generate more than $1 million in annual revenues.
The bags would be eliminated from those stores after three years.
Members of the club, called Purpose-Less Plastic, cite statistics culled from National Geographic, the Society of the Plastics Industry, the Sierra Club and elsewhere.
Fewer than 1 percent of the 5 trillion plastic bags produced each year are recycled, said J.J. Shpall, 16, a junior.
The bags litter the landscape, pack landfills and clog waterways, and they are made of petroleum, an environmental hazard, they said. They can be a menace to animals, who can choke or become tangled in them.
Los Angeles and San Francisco are examples of cities that have either banned or are phasing out plastic bags, and several states charge a fee for them, the Kent students said.
They joined a club dedicated to eliminating the bags after a teacher at their school made a presentation about the hazard they pose to the environment.
When the teens contacted Veiga, she told them she would have to learn more about the issue before taking up their cause. After doing some research, she said, "I felt very passionately they are right on the issue."

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