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2024 Year-end Newsletter: Living in Nature

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News | Feb 28, 2009

Shapleigh, Maine, Residents Vote in Rights-Based Ordinance to Protect Their Water

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Newfield voted March 2008 228:146 also in favor of a rights based ordinance.

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Ben Price of CELDF and Shannon Biggs of Global Exchange present Rights-Based Ordinance to the People Against Chemical Trespass, Santa Cruz, CA
Blaine Township, PA takes on King Coal

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