Immense Possibilities interviews CELDF's Thomas Linzey and Coos County, OR, community rights activist Mary Geddry.
Great Bay: An Estuary in Peril
An hour long documentary revealing the threat of unsustainable development to the Great Bay and surrounding communities. CELDF's Michelle Sanborn explores the systemic barriers we…
Orion Magazine: Speaking of Nature
Changing our relationship with nature in part means changing our language. It means shifting away from talking about nature as an object, to recognizing nature…
Rolling Stone: How a Small Town Is Standing Up to Fracking
Rolling Stone Magazine covers the story of Grant Township, PA, where the residents are working with CELDF to protect themselves from PGE's fracking injection well.…
2017 Wild & Scenic Film Fest Media Lounge Interview: CELDF’s Chad Nicholson on We the People 2.0
CELDF's Community Organizer Chad Nicholson is interviewed about We the People 2.0, exploring how communities across the U.S. are fighting corporate harms and asserting their…
Oregon Live: Jordan Cove spends heavily to kill Coos County anti-LNG measure
Veresen Corporation spends more than $300,000 to defeat Coos County, OR's, community rights campaign. If adopted, the initiative would stop the Jordan Cove LNG export…
Blog: Whose Town is It?
Members of the New Hampshire legislature took advantage of a spring blizzard, attempting to undermine direct democracy.
Blog: The US Constitution Is So 1789. It’s Time for a Serious Overhaul
The 1% drive for a constitutional convention, advancing their own corporate interests. But we don't need a convention. We need a whole new constitution.
Mint Press News: PA Dept. of Environmental Protection Sues Towns Over Fracking Ban
Residents of Grant and Highland Townships, PA, continue the fight to protect themselves from a frack wastewater injection well. Joining the fight against them: the…
Blog: Who Needs Sanctuary? We All Do
People can’t be illegal, but policies that strip them of fundamental rights can be. What can we do? Govern ourselves in the places we live,…
In These Times: Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection Sues Towns for Trying to Protect Their Environment
It doesn't get any clearer than this: our own environmental regulatory agencies suing communities who dare to protect the environment by banning fracking activities. Is…
PA Dept of Environmental Protection sues its own communities over fracking injection wells
A state agency charged with protecting the health and safety of communities and the natural environment sues Grant and Highland Townships in Pennsylvania, attempting to…
WOUB Athens, OH – Interview with CELDF’s Tish O’Dell
CELDF's Tish O'Dell interviewed on WOUB radio on Community Rights for Social Justice Workshop: Growing Roots and Rights. Myriad issues share a common root problem:…
Voices Network: Occupy Community Rights
Co-host David Callihan interviews CELDF's Emelyn Lybarger and OHCRN's Tish O'Dell, discussing Community Rights to create the change necessary to transform our oppressive structure of…
CELDF Blog: Worried about SCOTUS nominee Neil Gorsuch? Remember, movements don’t begin and end at the Supreme Court steps
Driving rights forward requires our joining together in advancing cultural and legal change - it will not begin with the Supreme Court.
Bioneers: Bioneers Partners with CELDF on Rights of Nature in Indigenous Communities
Where indigenous communities seek a western legal framework to protect Rights of Nature, CELDF and Bioneers are working together to support them.
Press Release: Spokane Arrestees Sue U.S. Government: Seek to Overturn Federal Preemption of Local Control Over Coal and Oil Trains
CELDF files lawsuit against the federal government, asserting federal law preempting municipal control of fossil fuel rail shipments violates residents’ constitutional right to a healthy…
Press Release: Spokane Arrestees Sue U.S. Government – Seek to Overturn Federal Preemption of Local Health and Safety Laws Concerning Coal and Oil Trains
CELDF files lawsuit against the federal government, asserting federal law preempting municipal control of fossil fuel rail shipments violates residents’ constitutional right to a healthy…
Mrs. Green’s World: CELDF’s Kai Huschke on Community Rights
CELDF's Kai Huschke is featured on Mrs. Green's World, talking about We, the People, taking control of our own government and our own communities to…
Guest Blog: American Propaganda
Propaganda is key to controlling our political landscape. Media literacy is crucial to our social activism - we must understand the elite's control of mass…
Blog: Matters of State Concern: The Tyranny of Preemption
The corporate state justifies obliterating local democracy through claims to be protecting the interests of residents across the state. We can no longer tolerate this…
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