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Colorado must stand against Trump’s unchecked ICE force
Truth, we have learned, is short-lived. Facts can be fleeting. Reality is easily distorted. This is the world in which we live, the nation where the president threatens “the day of reckoning and retribution” and then proclaims innocence when it arrives with deadly certainty. Twice. Still, we have our own eyes. And the cameras are everywhere. So we know better than to believe that Alex Pretti, the man murdered by federal agents in the streets of Minneapolis last month, was a “
Alex Sánchez
Feb 195 min read


The true cost of invading Venezuela
As a Mexican-American who oversees an immigrant-led civil rights organization in rural Colorado, I see every day the impact of foreign policy in our communities. Much of our work is done for those who are here because of instability that the United States has helped exacerbate. So I will state this plainly from a position of experience: A unilateral U.S. invasion and occupation of Venezuela is reckless, illegal under international law and guaranteed to intensify human sufferi
Alex Sánchez
Jan 104 min read


Voces Unidas: RFSD earns a D- on new community report card
Among the many lessons public education offers are those that come not from textbooks, but from sharing the classroom with peers from every walk of life. One lesson, often learned slowly, is that we all live our own reality. Despite appearances, not everyone’s circumstances are the same. Sharing the same hallways, classrooms and cafeterias with the same students day after day, year after year, it’s easy to assume everyone’s experience is similar. We’re all “Rams,” or “Demons”
Alex Sánchez
Oct 19, 20253 min read


When the system fails, don’t blame the families
Every so often, someone says the quiet part out loud. Recently, in response to our public actions in the Roaring Fork School District, I...
Alex Sánchez
Jun 13, 20253 min read


Senate Bill 276 seeks to close Colorado’s anti-immigrant urban-rural divide
We hear a lot these days about Colorado’s urban-rural divide — the disconnect between the needs and values of Front Range cities and...
Alex Sánchez
Apr 29, 20253 min read


Authoritarian approach to immigration the wrong answer
Sometime in the next few days, Donald Trump will sign the first bill of his second term as U.S. president into law. That bill, the Laken...
Alex Sánchez
Jan 25, 20254 min read


Project 2025 attempts to take America back to the dark ages of discrimination
Had American nativists ever endeavored to draft a “Declaration of Discrimination,” it would read a lot like the radical modern plan known...
Alex Sánchez
Aug 16, 20244 min read


‘Non-sanctuary’ resolutions are a crisis of their own making
“I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever...
Alex Sánchez
Apr 26, 20244 min read


All students deserve the right to celebrate their culture at graduation
Spring is traditionally recognized as a time of new beginnings. That recognition carries extra weight for the graduating classes of 2024,...
Alex Sánchez
Apr 6, 20243 min read
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