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Phone: 303-350-5064
Email: civj@civj.org
Mailing Address:
Voices for Justice
1717 East Colfax
Denver, CO 80218
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Who We Are
The mission of Colorado Interfaith Voices
for
Justice is to work with faith communities
to educate and advocate on behalf
of
those living in poverty.
Voices for Justice focuses on state and federal
public policy issues concerning affordable housing, criminal justice, healthcare, hunger and welfare.
In working with congregations and faith-based organizations, Voices for Justice seeks to create a powerful faith movement ready to take action in our communities and at the state capitol.
Voices for Justice brings diverse faith communities together to speak out for those who often do not have a voice in public policy: the working poor, the disabled, the elderly. Voices for Justice calls on policy makers to have justice on those who are struggling to make ends meet and survive in our world.
Working with Voices for Justice will help make a strong voice for the poor at the State Capitol; the more voices who speak out on an issue, the more legislators pay attention to their constituents. By partnering with Voices for Justice, you will be joining a coalition of faith communities, faith-based agencies and individuals all called to make a difference in the world.
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Update February 28, 2012
On behalf of Colorado Interfaith Voices for Justice and Lutheran Advocacy Ministry – CO, I want to say thank you for your passion and willingness to journey with us. In the coming week we will be sending out several action alerts on bills that need your support so please be watching your email!
In the meantime, I wanted to highlight several articles/stories related to issues we are following:
One of the issues CIVJ and LAM-CO are following is regarding Human Trafficking. The Lutheran Magazine just did an article about the issue from the standpoint of survivors of human trafficking which can be found at
http://www.thelutheran.org/article/article.cfm?article_id=10548
and our fact sheet on the Human Trafficking bill can be found by clicking "Human Trafficking Legislation" at the top, right section of this page.
The facts that were left out of the story: the current compliance mechanism for welfare recipients to not use prohibited ATM machines is by asking them not to. And by asking for VOLUNTARY compliance Colorado welfare recipients have a 99% success rate, which is incredibly high. The second issue is that of that 1%, many of them are accessing their benefits primarily in liquor stores because it is the only place in their neighborhood that has an ATM machine. The third issue with this story is simply that by not allowing transactions at certain places you are somehow prohibiting behavior. The truth is if someone wants to gamble or purchase liquor with their welfare dollars, they will find a way to do it even if it means walking across the street to another ATM machine.
People living on welfare already live with enough judgment in life without facing this type of journalism. If you are as offended as I am, I encourage you to email the reporter, Jeremy Jojola and tell him what you think. His email is: jeremy.jojola@9news.com
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2012 Legislation
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