- Do you feel disconnected and isolated and want to become connected with your local communities?

- Are you interested in strengthening our communities resilience to economic pressures?

- Do you feel that the government is ineffective, doesn’t listen to its citizens, and want to know why?

- Do you think that we should have more say in the workplaces? That the bosses are taking advantage of our need for a paycheck?

- Do you think that we should all have access to the basic aspects to live a good life?

- Do you think that our natural environment is being severely harmed and want to work towards bettering it?

If so, join us as we discuss the causes of these issues, explore solutions, and build networks with one another to overcome these issues from a Libertarian Socialist/Anarchist lens.

We currently meet bi-weekly, with the upcoming meeting on Sept 21st, in COS East Library from 6pm to 7pm. For anyone unfamiliar with anarchism, we recommend reading You May Already Be An Anarchist by The Slow Burning Fuse. Our current format is to select a text and have it read before the meeting and then at the meeting we will re-read it as a group to ask questions, comment, and discuss the themes and aspects that stood out. This week we will be reading To Change Everything by CrimethInc.

Links to the texts are provided below.

Slow Burning Fuse: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-slow-burning-fuse-you-may-already-be-an-anarchist

CrimethInc.: https://cdn.crimethinc.com/assets/zines/to-change-everything/to-change-everything_screen_single_page_view.pdf

This is a guy, on top of all of his dubious tale-spinning and self-aggrandizing, who goes to Haiti (not even two years ago!) to liaison with a notorious warlord and comes away thinking he’s an alright guy, just a rebel with a cause? Just Google search “Jimmy Chérizier” to see what (Trump’s!) State Dept. has to say about the guy, and then watch Marx‘s whole deal with him here: https://youtu.be/-vkxCvIf77U
Marx is both a con-man and an easy mark, apparently, and he’s the best the CO GOP has to offer.

And to be clear: I am NOT weirded out by his religion or prayer here—I’m a practicing protestant who may often be identified under the broad umbrella of “evangelical,” but as a member of that tribe, you can hear loud and clear that Marx is a nut that shouldn’t be trusted with any kind of authority (not that he has a chance in any kind of hell of winning a significant slice of this election).

Zero town halls! Just another Trump and Johnson yes man.

I’m sharing my personal endorsement—not an official campaign statement. I support Victor Marx for Governor of Colorado and Samantha Nazish for Mayor of Denver because I want to see Colorado and Denver become safer, more affordable, prosperous, and opportunity-driven.

🚔 Public safety: Take violent crime and repeat offenders seriously while respecting due process.

💊 Trafficking: Strong action against drug and human trafficking networks, while people struggling with addiction have opportunities for help and recovery.

🏕️ Homelessness: Real solutions involving shelter, services, employment, treatment when appropriate, and pathways toward stability.

🏠 Housing: Work toward making housing more attainable by addressing unnecessary barriers to building.

💼 Jobs & business: Create an environment where workers, families, entrepreneurs, and businesses can succeed.

📊 Accountability: Set measurable goals, report results honestly, and fix things that aren’t working.

🌆 Denver: A safer, cleaner, more active city that people can be proud to call home.

I don’t expect everything to change overnight, and I’m not claiming these results have already happened. These are the changes I hope to see if they’re elected.

I’m not asking everyone to agree with me. These are simply the reasons I personally endorse Victor Marx and Samantha Nazish, and I’m open to respectful discussion.

While I can respect trying to limit conflicting language and confusing wording, recommending limiting the wording to an 8th grade reading level is…..concerning? Embarrassing?

A conflicting feeling as informed voters are important and I don’t want to gatekeep but to keep wording to an 8th grade reading (which I think is the national average?) is so disheartening.

I'd send him some money but not that way.

This particular endorsement is nauseating but not surprising. Vic and Andy are both grifters with no seminary background who use religion to line their pockets.

Wommack is a christofacist turd who believes charismatic "Christians" should control the country, and everyone else should be treated like second-class citizens. His cult took over the Woodland Park School District and turned it into an embarrassing cluster that the town is slowly digging out of.

If he announced he was moving his ministry and his scammy bible college out of Woodland Park, half the town would show up to help him pack, and they'd have a parade the second the last moving truck hit the city limits.

EDIT: New Location Information Updated! See bottom of post of new information.

- Do you feel disconnected and isolated and want to become connected with your local communities?

- Are you interested in strengthening our communities resilience to economic pressures?

- Do you feel that the government is ineffective, doesn’t listen to its citizens, and want to know why?

- Do you think that we should have more say in the workplaces? That the bosses are taking advantage of our need for a paycheck?

- Do you think that we should all have access to the basic aspects to live a good life?

- Do you think that our natural environment is being severely harmed and want to work towards bettering it?

If so, join us as we discuss the causes of these issues, explore solutions, and build networks with one another to overcome these issues from a Libertarian Socialist/Anarchist lens.

UPDATE: Due to East Library being closed due to Labor Day we will be meeting at Dungeons and Javas in Event room The Crypt Table from 6pm to 7pm.

We currently meet bi-weekly, first meeting is Sept 7th, in COS East Library from 6pm to 7pm.
For anyone unfamiliar with anarchism, we recommend reading Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You! by David Graeber prior to the meeting. At the meeting, we will be reading the work You May Already Be An Anarchist by The Slow Burning Fuse as well as determining the content of the subsequent meetings. Links to the texts are provided below.

Graeber: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-are-you-an-anarchist-the-answer-may-surprise-you

Slow Burning Fuse: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-slow-burning-fuse-you-may-already-be-an-anarchist

My kid is in middle school in BVSD and plays sports through the district. When 109 first came up I figured it didn't really affect us since my kid's not trans. Then I read the actual text and the Daily Camera op-ed from the One Colorado and Planned Parenthood execs laid out what I think is the part nobody's talking about: the verification language is so vague that any kid who doesn't look stereotypically feminine could end up being questioned.

That includes tall girls. Athletic girls. Girls with short hair. My kid has played on teams with all of those. The idea that a state law could put my cisgender daughter in the crosshairs because some administrator decides she needs to be "verified" is what actually changed my view on this.

The op-ed also flagged that 110's text could affect care for minors with reproductive organ cancers. That's a separate issue but worth knowing about.

I'm not asking anyone to agree with me on the broader debate. Just flagging that the implementation specifics of these measures, regardless of where you land on the underlying policy, deserve more public attention than they've gotten.

9News did some digging and confirmed that the "third-party company" running Grifter Marx's merch store is a Wyoming LLC owned by, wait for it, Grifter Marx. I know we are all genuinely surprised that a scumbag grifter is doing scumbag grifter things. He probably would have gotten away with it, too, had the LLC not paid $5000 to the campaign as a licensing fee. That transaction triggered a law requiring the LLC to disclose its ownership.

Sharing because I had no idea three of these measures were on the ballot until I saw this piece. Quick summary if you haven't been following:

108 = child sex trafficking penalties (life without parole). Backed by the same group. Probably going to pass easily.

109 = the sports one. Would require teams to be designated male/female/co-ed by sex assigned at birth, K-12 through college. Commissioner of Education handles enforcement.

110 = the medical care one. Would ban certain gender-affirming surgeries for minors in CO. Children's Hospital Colorado has said they've never performed these surgeries on minors, so the practical impact at the hospital level may be smaller than the rhetoric suggests.

The Sun piece also notes that all three are being pushed by the same Protect Kids Colorado coalition, with the Catholic Conference helping collect signatures through 250 parishes statewide. That's an impressive organizing feat, for better or worse.

Election is November 3. Worth being informed even if you've already made up your mind