Helping community groups and municipalities write and adopt laws that assert community rights, including the right to local self-government, the rights of nature, and the subordination of corporate privilege to the rights of the community. Read more...
We hear from people like you every day who are facing gas and coal extraction, sewage sludge, factory farms, massive water withdrawals, landfills, and more. What's your issue? Read more...
Learn why the law stops us from protecting our communities, the environment, and our rights, and how you can organize in your community to change those rules. Read more...
05/21/2013 - CELDF's Community Organizer Kathleen Dudley is interviewed about Mora County's groundbreaking step as the first county in the U.S. to adopt a Community Bill of Rights banning fracking.
05/19/2013 - Mora County Commissioners, passing the first county-level Community Bill of Rights ordinance banning fracking, focus on sustainable agriculture and eco-tourism to promote the county.