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We are not a typical environmental organization. We assist communities to develop first-in-the-nation, groundbreaking laws to protect rights – including worker, environmental, and democratic rights, and rights of nature. CELDF provides free and low cost legal services, grassroots organizing, and education, to communities, states, and countries facing injustice. We help them to assert their rights to fight the harms they face. Learn more about how we work, or call us now at: 717-498-0054.
News from the Grassroots
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The Thom Hartmann Program: The Second American Revolution with Director Leila Conners
Tree Media's Leila Connors speaks to the documentary We the People 2.0 - The Second American Revolution, and how communities across the U.S. are using Community Rights to challenge and change corporate state barriers to democracy.
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Press Release: Ohio Residents Take Fight for Right to Vote to Ohio Supreme Court
Boards of Elections use new found authority to block citizen initiatives off the ballot in Athens and Medina Counties in Ohio. CELDF is assisting residents to fight back, taking it to the Ohio Supreme Court.
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BG Independent News: Pipeline petition passes signature test …. but more obstacles remain
Bowling Green residents and students who submitted petitions to place a Right to Climate charter amendment on the November ballot may face efforts to block their measure.
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Columbus Free Press: Corporate State Says Democracy is Too Expensive
While the oil and gas industry declares democracy is "too expensive," CELDF's Tish O'Dell looks at the bigger picture, including the cost of the corporate state.
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Community Rights Awareness Workshop in Brattleboro, VT
September 10, 2017Vermont residents face a range of harmful corporate activities, and are working to stop them. Join us for the Community Rights Awareness Workshop!
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Ohio Community Rights Workshop in Bellbrook, OH
September 23, 2017Join the Greene County Progressives and Miami Valley Progressive Caucus in Bellbrook, OH, for the Ohio Community Rights Workshop!
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We the People 2.0 in Newmarket, NH
September 25, 2017Industrial sites are leaking toxins into the water in the Seascoast region of New Hampshire, and residents are organizing to do something about it - including hosting a screening of We the People 2.0 as part of their educational work. Check it out!
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Democracy School in Napa, CA
September 29, 2017 — September 30, 2017Napa County, CA, residents are organizing to protect their community and ecosystems from unsustainable development. Join them in Democracy School, September 29th - 30th.
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Democracy School in New Hampshire
October 13, 2017 — October 14, 2017Nottingham and Barrington, NH, team up to host Democracy School as they fight to protect their communities from corporate water withdrawals for resale. Check it out here!
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Featured Articles
Blog: The US Constitution Is So 1789. It’s Time for a Serious Overhaul.
May 3, 2017The 1% drive for a constitutional convention, advancing their own corporate interests. But we don't need a convention. We need a whole new constitution.
Press Release: Colombia Constitutional Court Finds Atrato River Possesses Rights
May 4, 2017Reversing course from mainstream views of nature as property, Colombia's Constitutional Court finds the Atrato River is a rights-bearing entity - a necessary step to protect life on earth.
PR: First Right to Climate Law Passes in Colorado
April 5, 2017Lafayette, CO, is the first community in the state to adopt a right to climate ordinance, recognizing the right of residents to a healthy climate.
A Problem: Corporations have been granted rights allowing them to wreak havoc in communities for over 200 years.We can stop this. Here's how...
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Grant Township, PA: A Stand to Protect Their Water & Their Community
Show Your SupportFor more than 3 years, Grant Township, PA, residents have been fighting PGE’s proposed frack wastewater injection well. Now their own Department of Environmental Protection has turned on them as well. Grant residents are unwavering in their commitment to protect their community.
CELDF is standing with them.
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Ohio Counties Fighting for Their Rights and Their Future
Show Your SupportOhio residents in Medina, Portage, and Athens Counties are fighting to protect themselves from fracking wastewater injection wells, pipelines, compressor stations, and more. In response, the corporate state is placing people’s environmental and democratic rights in their cross-hairs.
These communities aren’t blinking.