Colorado IAF
Coloradans For The Common Good (formerly the Colorado Industrial Areas Foundation-CO IAF)
IT'S TIME TO ACT! WILL YOU JOIN US?
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WORK and WAGES: Workplace Rules in Colorado
Did you know that many Coloradans don’t have a right to minimum wage?
Or to take breaks during the workday?
Or to overtime pay?
Towards Justice, a nonprofit law firm that seeks to advance economic justice, is leading a coalition fighting to expand workplace rights in Colorado.
Join us to learn from David Seligman, Executive Director of Towards Justice, about these challenges to workers and to discuss potential actions.
Monday, September 16, 6:30 p.m.
Kirk of Bonnie Brae UCC
1201 South Steele Street, Denver
Anyone interested is invited to attend – Register Here!
Come Celebrate the Founding Assembly of
Coloradans for the Common Good
(Formerly called CO IAF)
Thursday, October 3, 2019, 7:00 pm
Manual High School Auditorium
1700 E 28thAvenue, Denver
Register at bit.ly/CCGFounding
Leaders from local congregations, unions and civic organizations invite you to celebrate the Founding Assembly of Coloradans for the Common Good (formerly CO IAF), a strategy for ordinary people to have a powerful voice on the issues that affect their lives, including housing, work & wages, health care / mental health, immigrants & refugees, and public education, among others.
School board candidates from Denver, Adams 14, Aurora and JeffCo will join us for a non-partisan School Board Candidates Accountability Session. Instead of endorsing certain candidates, we will ask all of them where they stand on our community-driven agenda that supports quality and equitable public education.
Attorney General Phil Weiser has confirmed his attendance and Mayor Hancock has been invited. Stay tuned for more information!
For more information on both of these events contact:
Marilyn Winokur (marilyn@winokur.com) or Zeik Saidman (zeiks@aol.com)
RECENT NEWS
New Name: COLORADANS FOR THE COMMON GOOD(formerly CO IAF)
A new logo and website are currently being developed, domain names have been purchased, and we are making the name change official with the Colorado Secretary of State.
Meeting with MAYOR HANCOCK
A positive meeting with Mayor Hancock was held on August 13, hosted at B’nai Havurah by five of our members. Twenty-six people attended from twelve IAF member institutions. The purpose of the meeting was to introduce Mayor Hancock to Colorado IAF and to begin building a relationship of mutual respect and accountability.
The topics presented and responded to directly by the Mayor included:
Mental Health and Suicides
Education
Housing
Immigration – Migrant Workers
Gun Violence
At the conclusion of our meeting, Mayor Hancock agreed to continue to work with CO IAF, and he assigned Christian Jimenez, Senior Advisor, as his liaison.
Colorado Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF)
December 15, 2017
Dear B’nai Havurah Member:
We are pleased to report that at the Board of Trustees Meeting on November 21, 2017, the Board unanimously voted to approve B’nai Havurah’s membership in the Colorado Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF). A group of seventeen B’nai Havurah members proposed membership. They are the first B’nai Havurah group to meet all the requirements of our Positioning B’nai Policy, which was adopted mid-year 2016.
Founded in 1940, the Industrial Areas Foundation is the nation's largest and longest-standing network of local faith and community-based organizations. The IAF partners with religious congregations and civic organizations at the local level to build broad-based organizing projects, which create new capacity in a community for leadership development, citizen-led action, and relationships across the lines that often divide our communities.
Mordecai Kaplan, founder of the Reconstructionist movement, said: “The Jewish protagonists of social idealism should realize that the Jewish religion came into being as a result of the first attempt to conceive of G-d as the defender of the weak against the strong and that it can, therefore, continue to serve as an inspiration in the present struggle.”
The IAF created the modern model of faith- and broad-based organizing and is widely recognized as having the strongest track record in the nation for citizen leadership development and for helping more than 65 congregations and other civic organizations act on their missions to achieve lasting change in the world.
If you are interested in learning more about the Colorado Industrial Areas Foundation and/or would like to get involved, please contact Zeik Saidman (zeiks@aol.com) or Marilyn Winokur (marilyn@winokur.com).
Approved on November 21, 2017
Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees
B'nai Havurah • 6445 East Ohio Avenue • Denver, CO 80224 • 303-388-4441
Sat, December 7 2019
9 Kislev 5780
The Other Half
Calendar of Events
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Saturday
Dec 7Truah Human Rights Shabbat with Jenifer Rodriguez is the Managing Attorney of the Migrant Farm Worker Division
Shabbat, Dec 7th 9:30a to 11:30a
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Friday
Dec 13
Friday, Dec 13th 4:30p to 6:00p
December 14 marks the seventh anniversary of the heartbreaking Sandy Hook massacre that stole the lives of 20 grade school children and 6 school staff members. As Shabbat begins, let's join together to remember the children of Sandy Hook and all those who have died by gun violence, before going out with signs to the Monaco and Leetsdale intersection to raise awareness about the need to end gun violence now. Brought to you by members and friends of Havurah B'kavod Jose Diaz. -
Saturday
Dec 14
Shabbat, Dec 14th 9:30a to 11:30a
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Saturday
Dec 14
Shabbat, Dec 14th 4:15p to 9:00p
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Sunday
Dec 15
Sunday, Dec 15th 9:45a to 11:30a
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Saturday
Dec 21
Shabbat, Dec 21st 9:30a to 11:30a
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Wednesday
Dec 25
Wednesday, Dec 25th 7:00p to 9:30p
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Thursday
Dec 26
Thursday, Dec 26th 7:30p to 9:30p
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Friday
Dec 27
Friday, Dec 27th 5:30p to 8:00p
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Sunday
Jan 5Books and Bagels: The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
Sunday, Jan 5th 10:00a to 11:30a
The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish All are welcome! -
Friday
Jan 24Kabbalat Shabbat Experience: Blues & Gospel Shabbat with Potluck Dinner
Friday, Jan 24th 6:30p to 8:30p
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Friday
Jan 24
Friday, Jan 24th 6:45p to 9:00p
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Sunday
Feb 2Books and Bagels: Either The Notorious Ben Hecht by Julien Gorbach or Ben Hecht: Fighting Words by Adina Hoffman
Sunday, Feb 2nd 11:30a to 1:00p
Books and Bagels: Either The Notorious Ben Hecht by Julien Gorbach or Ben Hecht: Fighting Words by Adina Hoffman All are welcome! -
Wednesday
Feb 19
Wednesday, Feb 19th 6:45p to 9:00p
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Friday
Feb 28Kabbalat Shabbat Experience: Yiddishkeit Shabbat with Potluck Dinner
Friday, Feb 28th 6:30p to 8:30p
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Sunday
Mar 1Books and Bagels: The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg
Sunday, Mar 1st 11:30a to 1:00p
Books and Bagels: The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg All are welcome! -
Saturday
Mar 7
Shabbat, Mar 7th 6:45p to 9:00p
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Friday
Mar 27Kabbalat Shabbat Experience: The Beatles Shabbat with Potluck Dinner
Friday, Mar 27th 6:30p to 8:30p
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Sunday
Apr 5Books and Bagels: And How are You Dr. Sacks? by Lawrence Weschler
Sunday, Apr 5th 11:30a to 1:00p
Books and Bagels: And How are You Dr. Sacks? by Lawrence Weschler All are welcome! -
Friday
Apr 24Kabbalat Shabbat Experience: Reggae Shabbat with Potluck Dinner
Friday, Apr 24th 6:30p to 8:30p
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