Over the past year, Latino advocacy organization Voces Unidas de las Montañas has recorded a slew of civil rights complaints in Garfield County. According to a recent online post published by the Voces Unidas Action Fund, over the past year people have been “disappearing” from Garfield County jail to later appear in Immigration and Customs […]
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Estafas de representación legal apuntan a la comunidad inmigrante
Defensores y abogados del Valle del Roaring Fork dicen que estafadores que se hacen pasar por representantes legales están explotando a inmigrantes que navegan un panorama federal de control cada vez más agresivo. “He visto y he hablado con víctimas de estas estafas”, dijo a The Sopris Sun Alex Sánchez, director ejecutivo de Voces Unidas […]
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Legal representation scams target immigrant community
Advocates and attorneys in the Roaring Fork Valley say scammers posing as legal representatives are exploiting immigrants navigating the increasingly aggressive federal enforcement landscape. “I have seen and talked to victims of these scams,” Alex Sanchez, executive director of Voces Unidas de las Montañas, told The Sopris Sun . Voces Unidas, an organization fighting for […]
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RFSD Report: Bidding adieu to 2024-2025, and prepping for next school year
Last month, the Roaring Fork School District (RFSD) announced new school leaders, reviewed district policies, recognized departing high school graduates and navigated public tensions. Busy agendas marked a year of challenges, changes and resilience. On May 6, RFSD announced two additional assistant principal hires, following earlier administration appointments made in late March and early April. […]
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Protest against Trump, Musk in Aspen Saturday draws large crowd
Signs of all sorts dotted the crowd at Paepcke Park Saturday, March 8 at a rally organized by Carbondale resident Linda Lafferty that drew roughly 350 people. Speakers included Pitkin County Commissioner Greg Poschman, Alan Muñoz Valenciano of Voces Unidas de las Montañas, Mountain Action Indivisible and journalists Andy Stone and Annalise Grueter. Residents of […]
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A dinner in support of justice for marginalized communities
This story originated from Sol del Valle and has been translated for English readers. On Friday, Jan. 17, the Glenwood Springs Library served as a gathering place that attracted the attention of diverse communities in the Valley. The Justice Ministries team of Roaring Fork United Methodist Churches hosted a justice dinner and a discussion panel. […]
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Una cena por la justicia de las comunidades marginalizadas
El objetivo principal de este panel fue hablar acerca de los desafíos que acechan a las minorías locales, de cara a un nuevo mandato presidencial. Cada una de las organizaciones sociales presentó su esquema de trabajo y diversas ideas de cómo se puede empoderar a las comunidades marginalizadas del valle.
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Una mirada retrospectiva a la respuesta regional sobre los refugiados
El alcalde de Carbondale, Ben Bohmfalk, afirma que los meses más difíciles de su término se produjeron por estas fechas el año pasado, cuando se descubrió que algunas docenas de personas vivían bajo el Veterans Bridge, en Highway 133 con 82.
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One year after unhoused newcomers influx, regional response coalescing
It was November 2023 when Voces Unidas de las Montañas, an advocacy organization, sounded the alarm about close to 100 unhoused people, mostly from Venezuela and unfamiliar with a Colorado winter, camping in cars and tents beneath the Veterans Memorial Bridge at the north entrance to Carbondale. According to Carbondale Police Chief Kirk Wilson, what […]
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RFSD Safe haven policy comes to fruition
A safe haven policy, years in the making, was codified into policy during the Roaring Fork School District (RFSD) Board of Education meeting on May 8. The push for a formal policy intensified in March 2023 when the U.S. Border Patrol had a table at a career expo at Glenwood Springs High School. Their presence […]