I answer not to falsehood or abuse, but proceed to the defects of the English Government. I begin with charters and corporations.
Press Release: Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection Recognizes Community Authority to Ban Frack Wastewater Injection Wells
MERCERSBURG, PA: On August 12, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) took an unprecedented step, for the first time suspending the issuance of a…
The Putney Debates
Selections From “THE SPIRIT of AMERICAN GOVERNMENT”
Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production
Toxic Sludge is Good For You
Read the Dirt: Hundreds of Communities Are Building Legal Blockades to Fight Big Carbon
Communities across the country - threatened by harmful carbon extraction - are leveraging community rights and lessons from indigenous peoples to use rights-based legal strategies,…
EcoWatch: Corporate Rights Trump Democracy in Ohio Fracking Fight
People who oppose having their communities transformed into corporate resource colonies are familiar with the Halliburton Loophole, a secretly drafted edict that places the oil…
The Colorado Statesman: Activists tweak message, timing in latest anti-fracking ballot fight
Activists will take another crack at passing the Colorado Community Rights Amendment, a proposed ballot initiative designed to give localities a veto over corporate activity,…
A New Movement for Community Self-Determination
Blogger David Bollier sees Community Rights Networks as an antidote to corporations forcing themselves into communities and causing harm.
Ohio counties can’t vote to ban fracking, Husted rules
Residents of three counties won’t be voting this November on whether to allow fracking, based on a ruling Thursday by Ohio Secretary of State Jon…
August Update: Chomsky, Hedges, Unions Endorse Worker Bill of Rights
Learn the latest news on Spokane, WA's, Worker Bill of Rights, read Community Rights Paper #5 on Citizens United, and join us for the launching…
Press Release: Highland Township Supervisors Vote to Defend Community Bill of Rights Banning Frack Wastewater Injection Wells
This week, Highland Township, PA, Supervisors, with overwhelming community support, voted unanimously to defend their Community Bill of Rights banning frack wastewater injection wells rather…
Highland Township
Highland Township in Elk County, PA, adopted a Community Bill of Rights Ordinance in January 2013, codifying the community’s rights to clean air, water, the…
Community Organizing in Pennsylvania
My phone rings, and a very worried women on the other end tells me that she is outraged that a large energy corporation has applied…
Press Release: Ecosystem, Community Group, and Municipal Authority File for Intervention in Lawsuit to Defend Community from Injection Well
HIGHLAND TOWNSHIP, PA: Today, an ecosystem in the United States filed a motion to intervene in a federal lawsuit to defend its own rights to…
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The Rights of Nature & Self-Governance – San Andres Archipelago, Colombia
The Raizal people of the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina off the coast of Colombia work with CELDF to recognize the Rights…
Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Funds CELDF’s Work to Advance Rights to Local, Democratic Self-Governance and Rights of Nature
CELDF receives support from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.
CELDF Publication- On Community Civil Disobedience in the Name of Sustainability
Our existing system of law is aimed at constant growth, development, and extraction – and conventional environmental advocacy works around the edges of this system,…
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