Category: Stories
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The Maestas Case (1912-1914)
By Joaquin Salinas In 1914, four decades before Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka and approximately three decades before Mendez v. Westminster School District of Orange County, a court ruling in the town of Alamosa, Colorado favored a lawsuit filed by Francisco Maestas and other Hispano families against the superintendent of Alamosa School District,…
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Opinion: Reflections of an Arab Student at CU
On Friday, Sept. 5, when I should have been driving through US-36 back to Aurora, Colorado to see my parents, I decided to watch a movie that GUT-C and SJP were hosting to fundraise for 19-year-old Feras and 20-year-old Razan. The movie was “The Time That Remains,” which reviews say captures “the absurdity” of living…
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CU Center for Asian Studies Gets Funding Cut
On Sept. 10, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) announced it would cease funding for multiple Minority-Serving Institutions’ (MSI) grant programs throughout the U.S., including several programs throughout University of Colorado (CU) Systems such as Denver, Anschutz and Boulder, which are considered a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) and an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI),…
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Indigenous Activist Arrested for Yelling at City Council Members
On Thursday, Sept. 4, a local indigenous Maya woman, Laura Gonzalez, was arrested by Boulder PD in the middle of the night in her home on suspicion of felony retaliation against a judge or elected official, as well as a charge of misdemeanor harassment. According to the City of Boulder, Gonzalez was arrested because of…
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CU Admin Shut Down “Palestine Solidarity Kitchen”
Boulder Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has once again had an event shut down by Boulder police officers and administration following the scheduling of the Sept. 15 Palestine Solidarity Kitchen. This event was centered around teaching students and community members about traditional Palestinian foods while they also made the foods. In an Instagram post…
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Boulder Police Shut Down Palestine Film Screening
At a recent Sept. 5 film screening of the Palestinian film “The Time That Remains,” scheduled to be held by student groups Boulder Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Give Us The F—ing Camera (GUT-C), students who arrived to set up the screening from both groups were met by a police presence blocking their entry…
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CU Cancels Aerospace Class Following Assault
Following the April 2 assault of two University of Colorado Boulder students, the university has decided to cut an aerospace engineering class with ties to the United States government. According to a statement released by Boulder Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), two students disrupted the class, “…that partners directly with the U.S. military and…
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CU Board of Regents Dare to Open Meeting to Constituents
Discontent, the story of the public comment session April 10th saw the University of Colorado Board of Regents meet at CU Denver, but off the table of discussion were two topics which, under the guise of legal reasons, had been forbidden. It wasn’t made clear to those in the room that day what those topics…
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¡VIVA LOS SEIS DE BOULDER!
NEVA ROMERO Neva’s family roots are in Southern Colorado’s Valle de San Luis where her ancestors lived, where she was born and where her father attended college. Her life in her parents’ home was in the Ignacio area where her father was a school administrator and city official. Early in life Neva learned about and…
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CU Boulder students hold “Students’ State of the Campus Address”
In an event hosted by Boulder Students for Democratic Society (SDS) and co-sponsored by United Mexican American Students (UMAS) y Mecha, Boulder Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), the Feminist Underground and Queers Against Capitalism (QuAC), students rallied and held their own “Students’ State of the Campus Address” in response to Chancellor Justin Schwartz’s State…
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