Day 1 of Latino Advocacy Day

The first day of Latino Advocacy Day brought more than 300 people together from across Colorado, including 100 youth, for the start of a three-day effort leading up to Monday’s formal day of action at the Capitol.

Participants spent the day grounding themselves in the Colorado Latino Agenda and moving through issue briefings focused on housing justice, community safety, worker protections, environmental justice, and affordable healthcare.

In the housing sessions, people dug into protections for mobile home park residents, fairer eviction processes, and stronger accountability for unsafe living conditions. In the worker briefings, they focused on extreme temperature protections, overtime pay for agriculture workers, and the reality that too many workers are still pushed to risk their health to keep Colorado’s economy running. Community safety sessions centered on closing loopholes that continue to leave immigrant families exposed to surveillance, detention, and abuse. Environmental justice and healthcare conversations forced participants to confront who carries the burden when communities are asked to absorb pollution, rising medical debt, and barriers to care.

In the evening, Voces Unidas Action Fund and COLOR Action Fund hosted the Welcome Reception. David Huerta delivered the keynote.