Colorado youth gained a win with the recent Court of Appeals decision regarding the COGCC and fracking permits. But how far does that win go?
The Investigative Fund: Big Oil and Gas Take Aim at Ballot Initiative Process in Colorado
In Colorado and Ohio, the oil and gas industry maneuvers to keep citizen initiatives threatening fracking off the ballot. In Colorado, the industry has advanced…
Fusion: This environmental nightmare is ‘raping’ towns, and citizens have one last chance to stop it
As fracking sweeps the nation, communities are using local initiatives to protect themselves - while industry spews propaganda and spends huge sums to stop them.
Yes! Magazine: Two Towns Battle Colorado for Freedom to Ban Fracking
Growing numbers of communities are joining together to move Community Rights to the state level--not just to protect against fracking, but myriad other harms facing…
In These Times: Colorado Community Rights Amendment Builds Largest Campaign to Date, But Falls Short of 2016 Ballot
Coloradans advancing the Colorado Community Rights Amendment set sites on 2018 for the state ballot, and commit to building Community Rights at the local, state,…
Ecowatch: Fracking Fight Continues in Colorado
Coloradans advance a rights-based state constitutional amendment, empowering communities to strengthen protections set at the state and federal level for fracking - including banning it.…
The Tribune: Mailbox for May 10: Local Self-Government is needd
The overturning of fracking bans in Colorado reveals corporations have more "rights" than people, and our government is here to protect those claimed "rights." Coloradans…
Boulder Weekly: Community rights versus environmental destruction: Time to turn the page
In a state overrun by fracking, a Colorado leader in advancing Community Rights lays it out plainly: when democracy and fracking cannot coexist, one of…
Press Release: Colorado Supreme Court Rules Local Self-Government State Constitutional Amendment Can Advance to Next Stage Toward Ballot
The Colorado Supreme Court clears the way for residents to advance their Community Rights state constitutional amendment initiative to the November ballot. Oil and gas…
Guest Opinion: Pushing for community rights
Mary Russell of Carbondale, CO, advocates for community rights as a tool for the people to make self-governing decisions in their communities, and urges support…
Oil & Gas Industry vs. Community Rights
Coloradan Merrily Mazza distinguishes between frack ban efforts that neglect to address people's community right to local self-government, and those that place that right as…
Boulder Weekly: Letters – Community Rights
Boulder, CO, resident Rick Casey urges discussion and exploration of community rights and the community rights state ballot initiative, heading for the November 2016 ballot.
Truthout: Campaign for a “Worker Bill of Rights” Puts ALEC in Spokane’s Crosshairs
Spokane, WA's Worker Bill of Rights asserts the right to community decision-making over corporate claimed "rights" to call the shots. And in Colorado, residents' community…
Pagosa Daily Post: Coloradans for Community Rights Submits State Ballot Initiative
Coloradans advance their campaign for a statewide community rights state constitutional amendment for the 2016 ballot. Residents across the state refuse to remain resource colonies…
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…
The World: Your View: Kudos from the other end of the LNG pipe
The people of Colorado express esprit de corps with and appreciation of the people of Oregon as both states advance community rights to stop fracking…
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…
Windsor Now: Community rights discussion takes root in Windsor
Residents of Windsor, CO, work to place a rights-based Charter Amendment on the ballot for a vote by the people, to secure and protect community…
Huffington Post: ‘Supreme Court Five’ Unleash Government Of, By and For the Oligarchs
The Supreme Court makes decisions that are benefiting corporations and harming democracy, while communities are working to adopt Community Bills of Rights that codify people's…
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