When

Saturday February 28, 2015 from 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM MST
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Where

Belmar Public Library (Meeting Room) 
555 South Allison Parkway
Lakewood, CO 80226
 

 
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Contact

Michael Melio 
Westminster Community Rights Network 
303-530-5215 
mdavidmelio@gmail.com 
 

Establishing A Community Bill of Rights 

Please come together to learn about how communities can organize themselves to protect and advance their interests, their health, their water, air, and their land. Learn how Longmont, Lafayette, and other communities have built on the Colorado tradition of 'Home Rule' and empowered themselves against bad corporate actors.

Featured Speakers

Merrily Mazza:

Member of East Boulder County United, President, Colorado Community Rights Network,  Lafayette City Councilor.     Merrily will present: a video: So Your Community is Going to be Fracked, Mined, Factory Farmed, or fill in the blank…  And she will discuss what to expect after passing an initiative, the lawsuit in Lafayette and the class action lawsuit filed by East Boulder County United.

Rick Casey:

An original founding member of Colorado Move to Amend, a  Community Organizer, a Member of Colorado Community Rights Network, and an Organizer for the Lafayette Community Rights Act, Rick will present a slide show of events during the East Boulder County United campaign.  He will also discuss a brief history of community rights in Lafayette.

Mary Smith:

A member of Mass Current, and Frack Free Colorado, Mary will explore how the Mass Current project empowers individuals and groups of individuals in community to first understand and then to assert and defend our inalienable rights, en mass, until a large enough movement of energy is created to change our broken system.

Dr. Tom Groover:

Member of the Board of Directors of East Boulder County United, Secretary of Board of Directors at Colorado Community Rights Network, and Chiropractor/Director at Groover Chiropractic Clinic of Boulder,  Dr. Groover will discuss a Corporate Script-Based Versus Community Rights Organizing; the Box of Allowable Activism; the Regulatory Chute; Stepping Out of the Box of Allowable Activism; Multi-Pronged Attack Upon Corporate Power; and the 2016 Colorado Community Rights Amendment

There will be a Q & A period following the presentations.