New Leadership Promises Progress for Citizens Project
By Cynthia Nimerichter
As I finish my sixth year on the Citizens Project board of directors, it is appropriate that I step down. Turnover is important and new blood is essential. But as I leave, I want to tell you-the loyal supporters of Citizens Project's mission and programs-why I leave with an abundance of confidence in Citizens Project's future.
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Save the Date:
The Divine Award
Thursday February 7th 5:30-7:30 at
The Warehouse
25 West Cimarron
Colorado Springs
Other Upcoming Events:
Pikes Peak Restorative Justice Council
January 10th noon-1:30
Penrose Library
For more information please call PPJPC at (719) 440 1983
Greg Mortenson, Author of Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace One School at a Time
Tuesday January 15th at 7 p.m. Shove Chapel, Colorado College
MLK Jr. Holiday Events
January 16-20th For more information and a compete schedule see: www.mlk-epc.org
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We hope you enjoy our first issue of FREEDOM WATCH Online. This online edition contains the same stories as you will find in the printed edition in the Independent on Thursday December 20th plus a few extras. We welcome your feedback. Help us improve CP! Survey 
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Voting Rights Threatened by Proof of Citizenship Proposals
By Jenny Rose Flannagan
What could sound more American than requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote? How about this alternative? Defending the right to vote for ALL Americans. The reality is that proof of citizenship policies for voter registration result in disenfranchising huge numbers of eligible voters who are citizens. That's why such proposals have consistently been rejected in colorado.
With the largest predicted presidential race looming in 2008, El Paso County Clerk and Recorder Bob Balink is threatening to implement a proof of citizenship requirement for voter registration in El Paso County. The Colorado Legislature has already declined to pass a law requiring proof of citizenship because it creates an enormous barrier to every American's right to vote and adds to the burdens of county clerks around the state. So it appears that Balink's approach would make an end run around the democratic process, implement a discriminatory policy, and invite a costly lawsuit to test the issue.
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Colorado's 2008 Legislative Session Promises Progress, Opportunity
By Pat Steadman
On January 9, 2008, the Colorado General Assembly will convene for its annual legislative session. Health care reform will be high on the agenda, but other important issues will also be debated as a prelude to the general election. Yes, election year politics will return to the capitol and divisive issues are likely to be pressed. While some pessimists warn, "no man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session," optimists see opportunity and progress on the agenda for the upcoming session.
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| Judging the Judges: Justice Watch Releases New Data
By Jan Weiland
Although most courts are always open to the public, very few people have the time to do research on individual judges. This is where Justice Watch can help. Justice Watch is a local non-profit organization founded to monitor the quality of El Paso County's district and county courts. during the period from April 1, 2006 to April 1, 2007, Justice Watch volunteers spent 424 hours in court, collecting data on cases of interest and for a continuing project assessing judicial demeanor of all judges and magistrates.
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In his letter to the Danbury Baptist Association January 1,
1802, Thomas Jefferson wrote:
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies
solely between man & his god, that he owes account to none other for his
faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions
only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the
whole American people which declared that their legislature should make
no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state."
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