Our existing system of law is aimed at constant growth, development, and extraction – and conventional environmental advocacy works around the edges of this system,…
Foster’s Daily Democrat: Reclaiming community rights is nothing new
A New Hampshire Community Rights Network Board member traces Community Rights back to colonial New England, where residents reclaimed those rights from the British Crown…
The New York Times: Stop Revering Magna Carta
Some folks are celebrating 800 years of Magna Charta as if it were a sacred document. Others...not so much. Why? Read more in this New…
Ohio Community Rights Network: Join with OHCRN to grow the Community Rights Movement today!
A video on the work of OHCRN in growing Community Rights to help protect all Ohioans from harmful activities threatening clean air, pure water, and…
Ohio Community Rights Network: Join with OHCRN to grow the Community Rights Movement today!
A video on the work of OHCRN in growing Community Rights to help protect all Ohioans from harmful activities threatening clean air, pure water, and…
Geddry: Wall dares invoke the constitution
Recognizing sustainability is illegal under our current structure of law, blogger Magix of Coos County urges the Community Bill of Rights to challenge the law…
Friends of the Earth Northern Ireland – Building a Movement for Rights
CELDF's Mari Margil shares about the growth of the Community Rights Movement with our allies in Ireland - a movement to challenge and change our…
Dissident Voice: The Future is in the Past: Economics 101 for Spokane
An in-depth look at Spokane, WA, its economy, and what sustainable and just would mean to the almost 40,000 people living in poverty. This includes…
We the People, We Decide – Columbia County Sustainable Action for Green Community (CCSAGE)
Check out CCSAGE's video: Columbia County, OR, residents partner with CELDF to advance Community Rights to stop fossil fuel transportation threatening their communities.
PACRN Statement: Conestoga Township, PA, Resident Unjustly Arrested for Speaking Truth at a Public Meeting
The Pennsylvania Community Rights Network stands by Conestoga Township, PA, resident Kim Kann, who was arrested for speaking truth at a public meeting this week.…
PACRN Statement: Conestoga Township, PA, Resident Unjustly Arrested for Speaking Truth at a Public Meeting
The Pennsylvania Community Rights Network stands by Conestoga Township, PA, resident Kim Kann, who was arrested for speaking truth at a public meeting this week.…
Truthout: The Carcinogenic Murder of Audrey Moore
Author Evaggelos Vallianatos pays tribute to Audrey Moore of Josephine County, OR - a community rights advocate who recently died from cancer caused by the…
Tribute to Audrey Moore
It’s with a heavy heart that we are sharing the news of the recent passing of Audrey Moore. Over the last two years, Audrey has…
Truthout: Colorado Communities Battle Energy Industry to Build Community Rights
As the oil and gas industry bears down on local Colorado municipal representatives to open their communities to fracking, those who refuse to cave are…
In These Times: Sacrificing at the Altar of Energy
What are we willing to sacrifice at the altar of energy? Author and naturalist Charles Johnson beseeches us to look beyond science, beyond climatism, and…
Griffith Journal of Law and Human Dignity: Finally Being Heard: the Great Barrier Reef and the International Rights of Nature Tribunal
Just over a year ago, the International Tribunal for the Rights of Nature and Mother Earth sat for the first time in Quito, Ecuador. Here,…
CELDF Publication: The People’s Right to Local Community Self-Government
This legal brief explains how the right of local, community self-government is not a new right, but one that is natural, inherent, and inalienable, belonging…
In Remembrance of Gail Darrell
It is with great sadness that we share with you the loss of our friend and colleague, Gail Darrell. For nearly a decade, Gail has…
OHCRN Statement: Broadview Heights, OH, County Court Decision Evokes Rallying Cry from Residents
While a County Court elevates corporate claimed "rights" over community rights in Broadview Heights, OH, residents assert the decision is illegitimate and determine to continue…
Community Rights Paper #1: The Spirit of ‘73 and the Right to Local Self-Government
Highland Township plans to fight injection well lawsuit in federal court
Highland Township, PA, residents urge their Supervisors to defend their community and fight Seneca Resources as the energy corporation files a federal lawsuit to overturn…
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