While ALEC and other pro-corporate entities attempt to decrease worker rights,CELDF partners in Colorado and Spokane, WA, begin working on Community Bills of Rights to…
Volatility: We Need GMO Abolition, Not Labeling
Blogger Russ reviews why labeling GMOs misses the point: People have a right to abolish GMOs - not just know whether or not their food…
Written Word, Spoken Word: Team Mora Kicks Judge Browning’s Bootie (In His Own Goddamned Courtroom)
Blogger Frances Madeson reveals Judge Browning's pained granting of intervenor status to the Mora Land Grant and Jacobo Pacheco in the SWEPI lawsuit seeking to…
Written Word, Spoken Word: 14,392 Reasons for Mora County to Stand Its Ground On the Anti-Fracking Ordinance
Blogger Frances Madeson reveals the number of gas leases in Mora County, making their Community Bill of Rights banning fracking all the more urgent.
Daily Camera: Letter-to-the-Editor: Let the revolution begin
The idea that advancing and enforcing people's fundamental rights, while directly challenging the power of corporations and the state to override community rights, is somehow…
Written Word, Spoken Word: SWEPI v. Mora County: The Purple Haze of U.S. Judge James Oren Browning
Blogger Frances Madeson shares the surreal proceedings in the oral arguments of the SWEPI v. Mora County, NM, case. SWEPI is suing to overturn Mora…
Global Exchange’s People to People Blog: Fracking Corporations Played the Democracy Game – Two Communities Set New Rules this Election
Growing numbers of communities - including Athens, OH, and Mendocino County, CA - banned fracking by asserting their inalienable right to make governing decisions, and…
Blog: Punishing Democracy
Denton, TX, joins a growing number of communities being sued by their own government and corporate entities, to punish communities for democratically enacting bans on…
2014 Election Update: Record Number of Community Rights Initiatives on Ballot
Community Bills of Rights advance on Election Day 2014, with a record number of initiatives on the ballot, and a growing number of communities determined…
Colorado Community Rights Network Launches Fundraiser for State Ballot Initiative
The COCRN calls for support to advance the Colorado Community Rights Amendment for the state wide ballot in 2015. Check out their fundraising video on…
So Your Community is Going to be Fracked, Mined, Factory Farmed, or fill in the blank…
Why can't we say "no" to what we don't want, and "yes" to what we do want, in our communities? This short video goes through…
The Right to Local Self-Government
What is the right of local, community self-government? Where did that right come from? The right is violated daily – what does that actually look…
Network Coordinator to Advance the New Hampshire Community Rights Network
CELDF announces Michelle Sanborn as our new New Hampshire Community Rights Network Coordinator. Michelle led her hometown of Alexandria, NH, in adopting a Community Bill…
Why the People of the Big Island Can’t Ban GMOs Without Challenging Corporate “Rights”
A simple ban on GMOs in Hawai'i County misses addressing our structure of law and governance that allows GMOs at all. To successfully stop them,…
CELDF Statement on New York Fracking Decision
We congratulate the victory in the New York Court of Appeals for banning fracking. We also recognize the Court, rather than affirming communities' right to…
Daily Kos: New Civil Rights Movement
A diary from occupystephanie draws parallels between Community Rights and other rights' movements and describes CELDF's work with municipalities across the U.S. to leverage those…
People to People Blog: Why Mora County New Mexico is Fighting Frackers for Your Rights, too
Global Exchange's Kiara Collins explores Mora County, NM's, fight for all communities' rights.
We the People Rising Up: Rejecting Corporate Control One Community at a Time (Part II)
In Part II, updates from Ann Kneeland of Community Rights Lane County; Audrey Moore of the Freedom From Pesticides Alliance in Josephine County; and Clint…
We the People Rising Up: Rejecting Corporate Control One Community at a Time (Part I)
CELDF's Thomas Linzey is the keynote speaker in a Community Rights event in Eugene, OR, on June 4th. Learn about how people in 200 communities…
Global Exchange’s People to People Bog: Community Rights & Fracking Ban Tour hits Mendocino County
CELDF partner, Global Exchange, works with Mendocino County, CA, residents who are threatened with fracking. Residents are using Community Rights to protect themselves, gathering signatures…
Mora County Legal Defense Fund
The Mora County Legal Defense Fund was formed to protect Mora’s Community Rights – including their right to clean air and water, a healthy environment,…
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