This is a really energetic presentation by Dr. Stephen Cleghorn, a sociologist and an organic farmer from Jefferson County, PA, and was recorded at the…
Beyond Personhood: Why Corporations Love the Constitution More Than You do
What do you love about the U.S. Constitution?
WeArePowerShift.org: Matt Damon’s “Promised Land”: The Good, Bad, and Misrepresented
Alexander Lotorto reviews Matt Damon's movie Promised Land, in part praising its bringing attention to the issue of shale gas drilling and fracking, while critiquing…
CELDF’s Gail Darrell presents to the community group Thanks But No Tank in Belfast, ME on residents’ governing authority
Community Organizer, Gail Darrell, of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, gave a presentation on October 19, 2012 about what power citizens have and do…
Thanks but no Tank Presentation by CELDF’s Gail Darrell
Community Organizer, Gail Darrell, of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, gave a presentation on October 19, 2012 about what power citizens have and do…
CELDF and Global Exchange: Occupy Wall Street
Activists Shannon Biggs of Global Exchange and Ben Price of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund participated in Occupy Wall Street people’s mic teach-in on…
Why do we need a local bill of rights?
Democracy School attendee Priscilla Stuckey on "Why do we need a local bill of rights?"
NPR Special Series – The Future of Nonhuman Rights: Recognizing The Right Of Plants To Evolve
The rights of plants to exist and evolve is explored as interest grows for recognizing the rights of nature.
View the trailer for “Rooted Lands – Tierras Arraigadas”
Chronicling community rights organizing in New Mexico to protect residents and the land.
Position Paper on Sustainable Energy
Currently, most development of wind energy resources is carried out by a handful of large corporations.... The corporation...controls the land, production of energy from the…
Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman Interviews Former Pittsburgh Councilman Doug Shields on the Pittsburgh Community Rights Ordinance that Bans Fracking
Doug Shields on the Pittsburgh Community Rights Ordinance that Bans Fracking.
Anti-fracking group threatens ballot measure
Colorado Springs residents launch campaign to put Community Bill of Rights on ballot to protect themselves and their community from fracking.
Why the Recent Act 13 Decision Won’t Help to Stop Fracking
How Environmental Groups Keep Leading Communities into Dead-Ends.
Bellingham Community Rights vs. Corporate Rights
Why support Bellingham, WA's Community Bill of Rights? Suzanne Ravet, a member of Coal-Free Bellingham, gives her account. Read more here from Northwest Citizen.
Press Release: Washington Communities Launch Statewide Network To Advocate for Community Rights
Washington Communities Launch Statewide Network to Advocate for Community Rights.
Ohio Town’s Lonely Campaign Against Fracking Now Slightly Less Lonely
The new year arrived in Youngstown, Ohio, with earthquakes that appear to be tied fracking to wastewater wells and activists standing in the cold protesting.…
Spokane’s Move to Amend, Occupy Spokane, Envision Spokane, and CELDF Join Together to Advance Elections Ordinance Banning Corporate Involvement in Elections and Government While Stripping Corporate “Rights”
Drafted by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) and Envision Spokane, the organizations Occupy Spokane and Spokane Move to Amend (SMAC) are currently qualifying…
Local Officials Standing Up to Protect Their Communities from Fracking
Local officials from more than 200 municipalities in 15 states, including city councils, town boards, and county legislatures, have banned natural gas drilling that uses…
United Nations Radio: Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature promotes its cause at Rio+20
The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature is....calling for global recognition and acceptance of Rights of Nature. They say an essential step for achieving…
KALW Local Public Radio’s Your Call
An Interview with CELDF's Thomas Linzey and Global Exchange's Shannon Biggs.
Press Release: Las Vegas, New Mexico, Adopts Community Bill of Rights; Bans Corporations from Fracking for Shale Gas
In front of a standing-room only crowd of residents, by a vote of 3-1, the City Council, Las Vegas, New Mexico enacted the Las Vegas…
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