Chad Nicholson joins Thom Hartmann to discuss how the 1% are effectively, suing the 99% for their own benefit, citing the findings of our June…
50 Years of Earth Day – What Are We Celebrating?
This year CELDF will be hosting an online Q&A with organizers who have been engaging communities across the country in paradigm-shifting work for decades.
VIDEO: ‘The Transformation from Reformist to Revolutionary’
This 6 minute short explains how, across numerous social issues—from housing, worker rights, environmental protection to gentrification—“the people in the community lack the legal authority…
Blog: A Fundamentally Humanizing Agenda
The current administration wants a crackdown on people experiencing homelessness. It's time, instead, for a humanizing agenda, such as that advanced by Denver residents this…
Blog: A Right to Survive is Born in Denver
Wealthy interests seeking to crush human rights in Denver, Colorado, out raised local supporters of the Denver "Right to Survive" initiative 23:1. This is the…
KGNU: Who Paid to Defeat Initiative 300?
An interview with CELDF's Ben Price on Denver's Right to Survive ordinance, and the $2.3 million spent by industries to defeat it.
Press Release: A Human Right to Survive is Born in Denver
“This idea of a real human right to survive in the 21st century ... was born – through the determination and commitment of the people who live…
Voices for Biodiversity: How Do Dams Fall? Conversations with the Colorado River
Author Will Falk's story of his connection with the Colorado River, the lawsuit he helped bring forward to protect her rights, and what is necessary…
Daily Camera: Lisa Flynn: Take Back Local Government
Longmont, CO, resident calls out state government sacrificing communities for corporate fracking interests. CELDF offers action for residents to protect themselves.
Seeker: Lawsuit Seeks Legal Rights for the Colorado River
Today, the Colorado River files in federal court for recognition of its rights to exist and flourish, as global warming and human consumption threaten its…
New York Times: Corporations have rights. Why Not Rivers?
A federal lawsuit asserting the rights of the Colorado River challenges conventional legal doctrines in the U.S.
Daily Camera: LTE: Confront oil industry directly on fracking
Facing environmental devastation from fracking, Boulder County, CO, residents make it clear: It's time for the people to use community rights and decide what happens…
The Colorado Statesman: Activists tweak message, timing in latest anti-fracking ballot fight
Activists will take another crack at passing the Colorado Community Rights Amendment, a proposed ballot initiative designed to give localities a veto over corporate activity,…
The Leap: In Colorado, A Revolutionary New Coalition Stands for Community Rights
In Colorado, local governments cannot raise the minimum wage, pass rent control laws, or ban fracking. A system of state “preemption”—a favorite tool of the…
Denver Business Journal: Proposed Colorado amendment would give locals more say on fracking, wages (Video)
Community activists submitted the wording Monday for a proposed Colorado constitutional amendment that would allow local governments more power over oil and gas regulations and…
Truthout: Colorado Communities Battle Energy Industry to Build Community Rights
As the oil and gas industry bears down on local Colorado municipal representatives to open their communities to fracking, those who refuse to cave are…
Truthout: ALEC Forces the Question: Will Labor Really Go Local?
While ALEC and other pro-corporate entities attempt to decrease worker rights,CELDF partners in Colorado and Spokane, WA, begin working on Community Bills of Rights to…
Daily Camera: Letter-to-the-Editor: Let the revolution begin
The idea that advancing and enforcing people's fundamental rights, while directly challenging the power of corporations and the state to override community rights, is somehow…
Colorado Community Rights Network Launches Fundraiser for State Ballot Initiative
The COCRN calls for support to advance the Colorado Community Rights Amendment for the state wide ballot in 2015. Check out their fundraising video on…
Huffington Post: Colorado Communities Could Ban Fracking Under New Proposed Amendment
A proposed amendment to Colorado's constitution that would give municipalities the power to ban or restrict fracking and other industrial activities would be the first…
Press Release: Colorado Community Rights Network Files Constitutional Amendment To Secure the Right to Community Self-Government Free from State Preemption
Denver, Colorado, January 20, 2014 - The Colorado Community Rights Network (COCRN) has submitted to the state for review and comment the language for a…
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