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Below are press releases, notices and photographs from previous Colorado Citizens for Peace and Arvada peace Vigil events.
For more photographs from past events, see the Photo Archive.
Link: Peace Group Founder Takes Politics to the Streets | Chris Dimick/Arvada Press : Photo by Justin Sagarsee - November 2, 2006
Cindy Lowry loves America.
She also loves America's right to free speech.Expressing her political views has become a passion for the 53-year-old Arvada woman.
Standing just over 5 feet tall, Lowry's stature is a false representation of her voice.
Add a megaphone to the mix, and Lowry's booming opinions carry all the way across Wadsworth Boulevard.
Every Saturday afternoon, Lowry joins the Colorado Citizens For Peace group to exercise her First Amendment rights in protesting the Iraq War.
Lowry founded the pro-peace group, which meets at the corner of Wadsworth Boulevard and West 52nd Avenue each Saturday at noon.
Starting with only a few supporters in February 2005, the peace group has grown to include dozens of Arvada members and has spawned similar vigils in three other metro-Denver locations.
Recently, the group started its "Blue Ribbon Campaign" to hang blue ribbons around the community, which Lowry said symbolizes that "we are blue and tired of fighting this endless war."
On Oct. 5, the group held its largest event in Arvada when more than 100 people joined Lowry to mark a national Day of Resistance against the Bush administration and current policy in Iraq.
During that event, Lowry said she noticed a few unexpected attendees.
Lowry claimed her group saw three men watching the protestors with telescopic lens cameras from the roof of the Costco store located across the street from the vigil.
"The ACLU is investigating who was conducting the surveillance," Lowry said. "They are trying to intimidate us."
Lowry didn't become a political activist until later in life.
She was born in Cleveland and raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, until her family moved to Los Angeles in 1969 when Lowry was 15.
California in the early 1970s was a hotbed of drugs and political activity, but Lowry never got actively involved with either.
She stayed on the sidelines, still forming her opinions about how she felt about issues.
While attending college in the Los Angeles metro area, Lowry said she would talk with Vietnam veterans and hear horrific stories about the war and wonder why it was being fought.
Politics was interesting, but other issues occupied Lowry's mind. At 22, she met her husband, Robert Lowry, while stopping to get gas at a filling station where he worked. She got married at 24, earned her associate's degree and worked a host of different jobs, including one as a medical secretary in a metro-L.A. hospital.
A poet and spiritualist at the core, Lowry focused her interest on mediation and sacred dance in her 20s, eventually becoming an instructor in both.
In her 30s, Lowry focused her efforts in the holistic movement, taking part in harmonic convergence exercises and learning tarot cards.
Lowry's life changed in January 1991, when a coalition of forces led by the United States entered the Persian Gulf War.
"I just knew it wasn't right, and these feelings took on a life of their own," Lowry said.
Lowry immediately joined a Quaker group protesting the Gulf War in Whittier, Calif. She stood on the city's street for two hours a day, Monday through Friday for the duration of the conflict.
The protest was not easy.
"It was not well-received," Lowry said. "Like when we started the Arvada protest, we had a lot of fallout and negativity from it.
"But unlike then, now we are getting much more positive support."
After that protest, she was hooked on the rush one gets standing up for a cause, Lowry said.
"For me, it is like going to an old time spiritual revival," Lowry said. "When I go to a political rally, everyone is on the same page, has the same purpose and you get to listen to people who get you sparked."
Soon a variety of issues and protests were taken up by Lowry, and at the age of 40 she was arrested while protesting outside of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in Santa Luis Obispo County, Calif.
"You do it for a reason, to lay your body on the line for a higher purpose," Lowry said. "I was psyched for the arrest."
The trespassing and resisting arrest charges Lowry got for her civil disobedience netted her a $250 fine.
Lowry moved to Arvada in 2001 after her husband, a mechanical pump seal designer, landed a job in the area.
After a few years of getting settled, Lowry got back into the political swing by joining the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center.
Lowry got the Justice Center's blessing to start the Arvada vigil, which soon separated from the group into its own entity — Colorado Citizens for Peace.
The group will continue to meet at the corner until the end of the war, Lowry said. She feels it is her duty to advocate for peace in the name of others who do not have the resources or ability.
The pro-peace vigils are a personal event. Lowry has friends with children serving in Iraq.
Her group does hope to use its protests as a way to change people's minds regarding the war, but most importantly they just want to enhance awareness.
"It has always been our main point to keep awareness of the war front and center in people's minds. We don't want people to forget that men and women are dying in Iraq," Lowry said. "That old saying, 'Out of sight, out of mind.' We can't let people forget this."
'World Can't Wait' Draws Crowd
October 6, 2006
The 'World Can't Wait' event held at 52nd and Wadsworth in Arvada yesterday evening was a great success. The rally was held from 5:00pm until 6:30pm and was sponsored by Colorado Citizens for Peace.
Approximately one hundred people turned out to urge an end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq and to demand accountablility for the unjust and failed polices of George W. Bush.
Honks of support from passing motorists was stupendous ... things have really changed in the last year.
Dave Chandler, Green Party candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives for the 7th Congressional District, was in attandance and rousing entertainment was provided by the Raging Grannies.
Press Release - September 22, 2006
Colorado Citizens for Peace Sponsors 'World Can't Wait' Event on October 5, 2006
On October 5, 2006, Colorado Citizens for Peace and World Can't Wait will sponsor a 'Day of Resistence - Drive Out the Bush Regime' at the intersection of West 52nd Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard, Arvada.
The event will begin at 5:00 PM and end no later than 6:30 PM. An optional peace vigil will be also held at this same intersection from Noon until 1:00 PM the same day.
The general public is welcome to attend both events. The keynote speakers in the evening will be Herb Rubenstein (former 7th Congressional Candidate) and Scott Ferguson from the Colorado Hospital Victim's Project. Entertainers will be the famous 'Raging Grannies' from Denver, and Cindy Lowry will share her original poetry entitled -- 'The Wonderful World of Disney Brought to You by Bush/Cheney and Company'.
Herb Rubenstein's talk will document the increasing inequality in America, the economic insecurity and causes for low and middle income Americans, and will make clear recommendations for turning the tide against the increasing inequality of wealth we are experiencing in America.
The Raging Grannies of Denver are pro-peace women who sing it as they see it ... and who aren't afraid to rhyme 'tank' with 'bank' and 'greed' with 'bleed'. They are part of an international gaggle of Grannies who use humor and song to make their points.
Scott Ferguson is a Victim's Advocate and State Director of the Colorado Hospital Victim Project. Scott has been working to end the egregious overcharging of underinsured patients by hospitals, and to bring legislation and protections enacted in other states to the over one million uninsured and underinsured people in Colorado.
Cindy Lowry is the Colorado Citizens for Peace coordinator and a poet who has written poetry since 1st grade in Iowa. Colorado Citizens for Peace (formerly known as the Arvada Peace Vigil) has been active in Arvada since February 25, 2005. Cindy will share an original poem.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Cindy Lowry at 303-463-7728, or Kathy Tolman at 303-940-7151.
Link: Despite Getting OK to Register for Parade, Peace Group Says Cost Too Much, Too Soon | Chris Dimick/Arvada Press - September 7, 2006
Arvada Harvest Festival Parade officials will allow the Colorado Citizens for Peace to march in Saturday's parade, but for a price.
On Tuesday, Sept. 5, parade chairman Ed Tomlinson told Colorado Citizens for Peace organizer Cindy Lowry that her group could participate in the parade if it entered as a political group.
Political groups, like politicians and political party organizations, are subject to a $250 entry fee to participate in the parade. The Colorado Citizens for Peace submitted its parade application as a nonprofit marching group, which is admitted into the parade for free.
Even though the invitation was offered, Lowry said her group couldn't raise the $250 needed to enter the parade by Saturday, Sept. 9.
Therefore, the group will follow its original plans to congregate along the parade route in front of Arvada City Hall to display their message against the Iraq War.
For more than a year, the anti-war group Colorado Citizens for Peace has been meeting at the corner of West 52nd Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard each Saturday to protest the war.
The anti-war group submitted an application to Arvada Harvest Festival Parade officials on Aug. 16 seeking admittance under the nonprofit category.
Shortly after its submission, Tomlinson said he planned on denying the Colorado Citizens for Peace parade application because its controversial political topics were not a good fit for the parade.
Because the parade is a privately operated and funded event separate from the city and public funds, Tomlinson said he had the right to deny any group admittance if he felt they didn't fit the mold.
Lowry and her group called foul, saying their First Amendment rights had been violated and organized to protest the parade.
The Colorado Citizens for Peace contacted the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado for representation and an ACLU lawyer sent Tomlinson a letter asking questions about the group's exclusion from the parade Sept. 1
After some consideration, Tomlinson determined the group could enter the parade as a political group, not as a free nonprofit, and on Sept. 5 offered Lowry's group a spot in the lineup if it paid the required $250 political group entry fee.
Tomlinson said his decision to approve the group in the political category was an ongoing process since the Colorado Citizens for Peace first submitted its application Aug. 16. He said similar decisions regarding applicants seeking free admission had been made with several other groups this year.
"I thought it was an appropriate thing to do," Tomlinson said. "They still aren't (a good fit for the parade). But you do want to treat them fair and equal. I wanted to make sure they were consistent with other political entries."
Lowry has mixed feelings on the decision. Her group will be allowed in the parade but is unable to march because of the entry fee.
Colorado Citizens for Peace is not a registered nonprofit, but is a non-partisan political organization with a small budget that comes directly from its members. Raising $250 for a parade in five days was just not possible, she said Wednesday.
"If this had been done in a more timely manner then maybe I could have come up with $250," Lowry said. "But, I think we won a little bit in this."
Rally in Arvada for Free Speech and Peace
September 6, 2006
Here is the latest on the Arvada Harvest Festival's denial of Colorado Citizens for Peace application to march in this Saturday's parade.
There will be a Free Speech rally to protest the denial of Colorado Citizens for Peace application to be in the parade ... and to spread the message of peace.
Arvada City Hall
8101 Ralston Road
Arvada, Colorado
Saturday, September 9, 2006
10:00 AM
(Ralston Road will be closed for the parade. There is a parking lot north of the city hall off W. 59th Ave. )
After the news report from last week's Arvada Press, is a letter from the Colorado ACLU to the Harvest Festival parade chairman. Some very interesting questions are asked.
Press Release - August 23, 2007
'Colorado Citizens for Peace' Told They Can't March in Arvada Harvest Festival Parade
Cindy Lowry, coordinator for Colorado Citizens for Peace relates this information:
"About three months ago (May 2006), Colorado Citizens for Peace began contacting Arvada city officials who are involved in the planning of the Arvada Harvest Festival Parade, requesting an invitation to participate in this annual Fall event.
"Near the end of May, Renee Nelson, chair of the Arvada Harvest Festival committee, forward to me an email stating that I would have to contact Ed Tomlinson, parade chairman, for the details of the parade.
"In June, we contacted Ed Tomlinson several time by phone simply requesting basic information about the parade. He never returned any phone calls.
"By mid-July, we decided to regroup on this matter. Arvada resident and friend of Colorado citizens for Peace, Bob McGrath, offered to call Ed Tomlinson to get some of the the basic information and secure an application form. We received the application form and submitted it on August 14, 2006.
"On Wednesday, August 16, 2006, I received a telephone call from Arvada Police Detective Duane Eaton informing us that our request to be a part of the Arvada Harvest Festival Parade would be denied on the grounds of "public safety issues".
"On August 18, 2006, I sent an email to Ed Tomlinson asking for a further explanation of why we could not participate. I have not received any additional information to date.
"The Colorado Citizens for Peace will have a presence at the Arvada Harvest Festival Parade gathering for a 'Peace Vigil' at Arvada City Hall -- 8101 Ralston Road -- on Parade Day, September 9, 2006.
"We will gather at one of the parking lots north of City Hall at 9:30 AM that morning.
"We will be carrying signs about our First Amendment Rights and our "Peace Vigil Signs" to emphasize our stand against the Iraq War and Occupation.
"If you wish to join us, or if you have any questions about this vital matter, please feel free to contact me, Cindy Lowry, CCFP Coordinator, at 303-463-7728."
Link: Anti-war Group Plans to Protest at Harvest Parade | Arvada Press - August 8, 2006
Thousands of people will pack along the Arvada Harvest Festival Parade route Sept. 9, but not all will be cheering in support.
Members of the anti-war group, Colorado Citizens for Peace, plan to protest the Arvada Harvest Festival Parade from the sidewalk after being denied permission to march in the actual parade.
The Arvada-based, anti-war group's coordinator Cindy Lowry said not being included in the parade is an infringement on her organization's First Amendment rights. Parade chairman Ed Tomlinson sees it differently. He says he has the right to deny entry to groups he feels don't fit the parade.
The Colorado Citizens for Peace plan to meet at 9:30 a.m. Sept. 9 and hold signs and banners along the parade route in front of Arvada City Hall in protest of the war in Iraq, as well as its exclusion from the parade.
For more than a year, the anti-war group has met at the corner of West 52nd Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard each Saturday to protest the war.
The group didn't want to cause controversy by walking in the parade, but expose people to its message — the immediate withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, Lowry said. The group was denied, and members say their right to freedom of speech has been infringed.
"We are talking about a whole group of people being denied their First Amendment rights," Lowry said. "We just wanted to get our message of peace across. We are not taking sides politically, we believe that war is not the answer, and there should be more peaceful negotiations going on rather than just drawing guns first and talking later."
Tomlinson said he denied the group because he feels the parade is meant for entertainment, not political discussion.
However, political candidates for the upcoming election are allowed to participate in the parade — at a higher cost than nonprofit groups.
"This is for children, to entertain and make them giggle; it is not for political purposes," Tomlinson said. "I would deny them if their message was pro-war, it is not their views.
"This is not what the event is all about."
Both the parade and Harvest Festival are operated and funded privately, separate from the city of Arvada, and the city has no part in determining who is admitted into the parade, according to city spokeswoman Maria VanderKolk.
Since the parade is a privately operated and funded event, Tomlinson said he has the right to deny any group admittance if he feels they don't fit the mold. Tomlinson said he consulted with an attorney before making the decision to deny Colorado Citizens for Peace's request just to ensure his decision was legally sound.
But her group's message is an important one, Lowry said, and should be given an audience.
"We don't cause trouble. Mr. Tomlinson is thinking we are a controversial hotbed and he wants it (the parade) to be all sugary and sweet like the Disney theme they have this year," Lowry said.
The parade's theme this year is "Disney Daze," and parade participants are encouraged to utilize the Disney theme in their respective entries. Tomlinson agreed he wants the parade to be lighthearted and stay clear of controversial messages.
"The public wants entertainment," he said. "It (Colorado Citizens for Peace) doesn't add entertainment."
Although they won't be in the parade, Lowry said she and her group would still get their message of peace to the people, even if it is from the sidelines.
"We will be peaceful, but we will be there (at the parade)," Lowry said.
Press Release - July 24, 2006
Colorado Citizens for Peace to Query Candidate on Peace Issue
On July 29, Colorado Citizens for Peace (formerly known as the Arvada Peace Vigil) will host a 7th Congressional District Candidates Forum at the corners of W. 52nd Avenue and Wadsworth Blvd. starting at 12:15PM.
We invite the general public to join in this forum and discussion. Each candidate or their spokeperson will address our main question: "What is your position of strategy for bringing the troops home now?"
Each candidate will have ten minutes to answer our question, and briefly elaborate on any other timely issue upon which they choose to expound.
After the forum, we will have a 'Question and Answer' time for the public to ask the candidates or their spokepersons any questions of relevance.
We extended an invitation to Rick O' Donnell (R) to attend; but his reply was " He believes in supporting the troops, and finishing the job we started" ( direct quote from one of his staffers). Peggy Lamm (D) and Ed Perlmutter (D) will be sending a spokeperson to represent them.
Herb Rubenstein (D) and Dave Chandler (G) will be there in person.
Herb Rubenstein is an attorney, businessman and adjunct professor of entrepreneurating at the Colorado State University. He lives in Golden with his wife Laurie and have been busy helping contribute to the success of the Democratic Party in Jefferson, Adams, and Arapahoe counties, the home of the 7th Congressional District.
Dave Chandler is a stay-at-home dad, editor of www.Earthside.com, and active Green Party member since January 2002. In 1992, he served as the Jefferson County chair of Bill Clinton's presidential primary campaign. He has previously run for Arvada city council and has been a leader in balanced growth and government reform efforts in Arvada since 1995.
Link: Peace Group Marks a Year of Anti-War Vigils | Chris Dimick/Arvada Press : Photo by Christopher Stark- March 2, 2006
A symphony of blaring horns erupted from Wadsworth Boulevard as the crowd waved and cheered in response.
About 50 people had gathered with anti-war signs and banners for the weekly Arvada Peace Vigil Saturday.
"Bring them home now, draft the twins," read one sign."Reason for getting out of Iraq: Killed in action 2,287, Wounded 16,653," read another.
In the middle of a flurry of honks of support, a white truck pulled up in front of protesting Arvada resident Kenneth Short.
"Long live Rush Limbaugh. Go back to Russia," yelled the teenagers in the battered white truck.
Many around Short simply raised their signs higher.
"They need you in Iraq," Short said.
A majority of passersby offered support — much more support than when the Arvada Peace Vigil began last year, according to vigil organizers.
Organizer Cindy Lowry said that increasing support is a sign that the public is starting to come around to their belief in an immediate withdrawal of American troops from Iraq.
Saturday's vigil and rally marked the one-year anniversary for the Arvada Peace Vigil. Since February 2005, dozens have been gathering at the corner, snow or shine, to express their view on President Bush and the Iraq War.
Since its inception in Arvada, three other vigils — in Denver, Lakewood and Westminster — have branched off from the West 52nd Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard event.
"We will stay out here until the troops come home," Lowry said. "… The troops fight everyday, it is the least we can do to come out here every Saturday and support their safe return."
Two former soldiers who recently served in Iraq spoke at a rally after the street-corner protest. Their depictions of unending and convoluted violence in Iraq momentarily silenced the crowd.
"We are adding terrorism to the world, not taking it away," said Dustin Flatt, 32, who said he was honorably discharged from the Army 1st Battalion 18th Infantry in February 2005 after serving in Iraq.
Before and after the rally, Flatt and fellow veteran T.J. Westphal held anti-war signs and talked with fellow protestors.
Westphal still has friends serving in Iraq, and he protests because he feels his friends are being put in danger for nothing, he said.
"These soldiers are making tremendous sacrifices; that sacrifice should be for something noble and just," Westphal said. "And this war is not just."
Link: Protestors Bring Their Energy to Golden | Emily Hois/Mile High Newspapers - February 23, 2006
Whistles echoed through the crisp morning air Tuesday, as protestors saluted passing drivers with peace signs and applause.
"We've got 98 percent in support and two against," said Evergreen resident Hannah Hayes as she estimated the number of drivers who honked in support of President Bush's protestors.
About 25 protestors drifted around the corner of the Denver West Marriott, holding signs that read, 'We are not safer, occupation breeds hate,' and 'War is not a family value.'
Some advocated renewable energy, the main issue President Bush addressed Tuesday. Many protestors held signs opposing the Iraq war, campaigning for the troops' return.
"I want to bring awareness to the Iraqi people — that they are not collateral damage," Hayes said.
Claire Ryder, member of the 3 November Movement, is disgusted by the visit overall.
"(President Bush) is traveling all over the country promoting this whole energy thing and it's all crap," Ryder said, noting that he cut $28 million in NREL's budget and requested an additional $72.4 billion in appropriations for the war in Iraq. NREL this week , though, received some of that money back and said the 32 jobs cut last week will be re-instated.
"It's a sham — a smokescreen to detract from his problems. He's not popular right now."
Ryder and 11 fellow activists were arrested in Lakewood on Nov. 18 for blocking the entrance to the recruiting station.
The group's pretrial hearing at the Jefferson County courthouse was the same day of Bush's visit to Golden.
"Since we're in the neighborhood, we figured we'd make a stop," Ryder said.
"I'm here because Bush lies — the war is based on lies, and concentration of power in the executive branch is a dangerous thing."
A driver with a John Kerry bumper sticker turned the corner and honked eight times, raising a stern fist to the protestors.
"All right … thank you … peace now," different protestors shouted, their signs illuminated by the 9 a.m. sunlight.
About 15 members of the Arvada Peace Vigil congregate at the corner of West 52nd Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard on Saturdays.
"It's kind of our cathartic session to work out the things about Bush that bug us," said the group's founder, Cindy Lowry.
The activists added Tuesday to their weekly schedule.
Since President Bush has been in office and routinely stopped in the Denver area, Lowry has only missed protesting once or twice.
Standing in the 32-degree winter morning, she held an upside-down American flag to symbolize how "Bush is bringing us down with his special corporate interest."
The activist first began anti-war protests in California when George Bush Sr. mandated the first Iraqi invasion.
"That was the turning point," Lowry said. "I just felt like it was something I needed to do."
Surrounded entirely by Bush opponents and no supporters, Lowry's goal is to raise awareness and voice her discontent.
"If we've even planted a few little seeds of the opposite viewpoint, we've accomplished something," she said.
Ryder agreed.
"Even if the president doesn't see us, the people will see us — and that's what matters," she said.
One year of vigils
The Arvada Justice and Peace Commission, which gathers every Saturday to protest the war in Iraq, will mark its one-year anniversary this weekend. The group will stage the Arvada Peace Vigil at noon Saturday at the corner of West 52nd Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard.
Cindy Lowry started the protests and said she couldn't sit idle while young men and women died in a war she opposes. When the group started, there were about five people, but now that has grown to as many as 15 people every week.
"I still would like to see it continue to grow and move to other cities as well," she said.
And while she knows President George W. Bush will not bring the troops home instantly, her group wants to make a statement that he should, she said.
Along with Lowry, other scheduled keynote speakers include Ann Krohn Rick, who helped start the Longmont Citizens for Justice and Democracy, and Sarah Gill, area program coordinator for the Colorado office of the American Friends Service Committee.
T. J. Westphal and Dustin Flatt, two veterans of Iraq, will represent Iraq Vets Against the War.
"The peace vigil always keeps going on — rain, shine or snow," Lowry said.
Link: War Protest Draws Weekly Crowd | Denver Post : Photo by Post/Glen Martin- July 7, 2005
Every Saturday since Feb. 26, people gather at the city's busiest intersection to protest the Iraq war.
Their message of "Support Our Troops - Bring Them Home Now" draws honks, cheers, jeers, gestures and, sometimes, discussions from across the political spectrum.
"Boy, do we get reactions," said Pat Gacnik, chairwoman of the Arvada Peace and Justice Commission.
The group was born in January 2003 after the Colorado Peace Rally in McIlvoy Park in Arvada to protest the possibility of war in Iraq.
But on March 19, 2003, the White House announced the war had begun. Since then, 1,746 Americans have lost their lives in Iraq.
Commission members have sponsored a voter-registration drive, protested missile silos and supported members who built homes for the poor in Mexico and clean-water supplies in Africa.
And from noon to 1 p.m. each Saturday - rain, snow or shine - they gather next to the Home Depot and Costco.
They hoist signs displaying their pro-peace beliefs on all four corners of West 52nd Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard.
"Maybe it makes people think on Saturdays instead of just running their errands," said Gacnik, 71, a mother of nine and grandmother of 19.
Several protesters, such as Gacnik and her husband, Frank, have been supporting social and political activism for decades.
Others, such as Barbara Misenti of Wheat Ridge, are just getting involved.
"We should not be in this war at all," said Misenti, 51, who joined the vigil for the first time just a few weeks ago. "But I don't know any other way to be heard other than to write letters."
For Betty Goebel, 52, the decision to demonstrate was not difficult.
"If you are silent, you are perceived as being sympathetic," she said, "and I'm absolutely not silent, and I choose to make a statement."
Some are in their 70s, some are in their 30s. Some don't come each week, but all believe the war is wrong and are willing to take a stand on a street corner in suburbia.
Cindy Lowry, a member of the Arvada Peace and Justice Commission, came up with the idea of holding the vigil "in our own backyard," where she believes the peace message is as valid as when it is expressed on the state Capitol steps.
"We're really typecast," Gacnik said. "Arvada has this reputation of being conservative, Republican and reactionary, but that's totally not true."
Area businesses have grown accustomed to the group's presence, and some ignore it all.
"What are they protesting?" asked Kay McKelvey, who works at a nearby bookstore. "I can't read their signs."
Some passers-by feel the urge to speak to group members, such as Mark Witherell, 36, of Golden, who said, "I might come out next week."
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