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…
Truthout: Amending Colorado’s Constitution: Do Communities Have Right to Clean Air and Water?
As voters last week banned fracking in regions from Ohio to Texas to California, Colorado citizens are meanwhile attempting to reclaim their own right to…
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…
The Colorado Statesman: How Congressman Jared Polis and Food and Water Watch sold out Colorado
CELDF's Thomas Linzey calls out the blatant sellout of Coloradans by a Congressman who had claimed to support communities banning fracking, and a non-profit's abandonment…
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…
East Boulder County United statement on COGA’s lawsuit against Lafayette’s Community Rights initiative
Faced with the loss of four democratic votes against oil and gas development across the Front Range this November, the Colorado Oil and Gas Association…
Anti-fracking group threatens ballot measure
Colorado Springs residents launch campaign to put Community Bill of Rights on ballot to protect themselves and their community from fracking.