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April 2016
American Values Edition
Reclaiming American Values
Have you seen our new billboards around town? Through the generosity of Lunchbucket Creative, Lamar, and the Colorado Springs Independent, each year Citizens Project engages the community in conversation about who we are are where we are going. 

This year we are reclaiming our identity as patriots and challenging the narrative about what it means to be an American. Check out the 2016 campaign, "Prefix" HERE.

Creating Community Breakfast

Save the date for June 2 from 7:30-8:30am for the Creating Community Breakfast. Come and be inspired and celebrate diversity, equality, and separation of church and state with the best group of advocates in town!


Minority Rights, the Fight Against Terrorism, and the Constitution
by Dr. Schuyler Foerster

Professor Edward Corwin, an eminent legal and political scholar, wrote that the U.S. Constitution is an "invitation to struggle"-an invitation to struggle among competing ideas, among competing centers of power, and among competing responsibilities in the exercise of governmental authority.
In the domain of national security, the "invitation to struggle" built into the Constitution has been tested many times.  In combatting terrorism, these Constitutional issues have taken on different and much more complex forms.  They also require more careful attention on our part if we are to strike the proper balance and preserve both our security and the values that define our free society within the rule of law.
There are many facets to this important question, but in this essay I want to focus on the impact of the so-called "war on terrorism" on civil rights, in particular the rights of minorities.     READ THE FULL ARTICLE
Mark your Calendar
Pikes Peak Sierra Club
April 23, 10:30am-12:30pm

Planned Parenthood
April 27, 7-9pm

UCCS Center for Religious Diversity & Public Life
April 28, 5:30pm

a joint program on local government by CONO
Co Springs- May 14 and 21
El Paso County- June 11 and 18

In the News...
April 17 NY Times

April 13 
Denver Business Journal

March 29 Washington Post

March 22 
Pew Charitable Trusts
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Election 2016
We will, again, be getting out the vote this year and have set an audacious goal of reaching 20,000 underrepresented voters in our community. We need your help. Email [email protected]g to learn more.