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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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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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Vindy.com: LTE: Outside money suppresses voice of people in Y’town; the time has come to act
A Youngstown, OH, residents calls for support of the People’s Bill of Rights for Fair Elections and Access to Local Government. The initiative creates non-partisan elections, stops outside influence on elections, and other groundbreaking requirements.
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Akron Beacon Journal: LTE: Fallout from the oil and gas industry
A Medina Co, OH, resident invites elected officials to see what's happening in Carroll and Noble Counties, where residents suffer harms from fossil fuel projects marring the countryside.
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Vindy.com: Fracking issue in Youngstown could ignite fight in the courts
Gas industry allies in the Ohio legislature adopted a law authorizing BOEs and the Secretary of State to keep measures off the ballot based on content. The new law may be used in an attempt to keep 2 Youngstown community rights measures off the ballot.
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We the People 2.0 in Brattleboro, VT
August 22, 2017Brattleboro, VT, residents host a screening of We the People 2.0 as they explore Community Rights to protect themselves from environmental harms.
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Link TV airs We the People 2.0 – The Second American Revolution
August 23, 2017 — August 29, 2017We the People 2.0 airs on Link TV nationwide, and in Southern California on KCET - HD broadcast and cable. Learn more here!
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We the People 2.0 in Xenia, OH
August 27, 2017Local groups in Xenia, OH, host We the People 2.0 on August 27th. Check it out here!
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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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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.