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Aug 16, 2015
Once again, political tyranny rears its ugly head as Ohio Secretary Of State Jon Husted maintains that as chief executive over elections, he is using his “unfettered authority’’ to make thousands of signatures of active voters invalid in ruling that referendums on fracking would circumvent state law.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 16, 2015
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – In Athens, Fulton and Medina Counties Ohio’s Secretary of State, Jon Husted, declared anti-fracking ballot initiatives will not be put before voters on the November ballot, even though there were enough signatures to place them on the ballot.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 15, 2015
MEDINA, Ohio – The fight isn’t over for Medina County homeowners opposed to the Nexus pipeline and pushing for a ban on fracking in the county.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 14, 2015
COLUMBUS, OH: The Ohio Secretary of State, Jon Husted, declared that the citizens of Medina, Fulton, and Athens Counties may not vote on their own county charter initiatives, despite meeting requirements to place those initiatives on the November ballot.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 14, 2015
Grass-roots groups in Medina and two other counties intend to keep fighting Ohio’s gas-and-oil industry, after Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted invalidated ballot proposals in those counties.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 14, 2015
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 Husted.
Read More | News from the GrassrootsAug 14, 2015
COLUMBUS, OH: The Ohio Secretary of State, Jon Husted, declared that the citizens of Medina, Fulton, and Athens Counties may not vote on their own county charter initiatives, despite meeting requirements to place those initiatives on the November ballot.
Read More | Community WiresAug 14, 2015
SPOKANE, WASHINGTON: Judge Salvatore Cozza from the Spokane County Superior denied a preliminary injunction brought by the Mayor of Spokane to block the vote of a Worker Bill of Rights initiative, which is on the November ballot.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 13, 2015
Community bill of rights in charter proposal would have banned some fracking-related activities
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 13, 2015
MEIGS COUNTY, OH: Frustrated by the efforts of the Meigs County Commissioners to keep residents’ community rights county charter initiative off the November ballot, the Meigs County Home Rule Committee (MCHRC) has sued the Commissioners to force the measure on to the ballot. On July 20, they filed a lawsuit in the Fourth District Court of Appeals in Chillicothe, claiming the Commissioners have illegally refused to take action on the measure in order to block a vote by the people.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 12, 2015
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 of the Ohio Community Rights Workshop.
Read More | News from the GrassrootsAug 12, 2015
MEIGS COUNTY, OH: Frustrated by the efforts of the Meigs County Commissioners to keep residents’ community rights county charter initiative off the November ballot, the Meigs County Home Rule Committee (MCHRC) has sued the Commissioners to force the measure on to the ballot.
Read More | Community WiresAug 12, 2015
The Community Rights action in Warren City, Warren County, Pennsylvania has been a dramatic chapter in rights-based organizing. Facing tremendous political opposition from local officials and the gas industry, the charter amendment was soundly defeated, garnering 38% of the vote.
Read More | Community WiresAug 12, 2015
On November 8, 2011, the residents of State College voted overwhelmingly—72%—to amend their Home Rule Charter to include a Community Bill of Rights.
Read More | Community WiresAug 12, 2015
On November 23, 2010 Ellen Mavrich contacted CELDF asking for advice about adopting a community rights ordinance similar to the one enacted by Pittsburgh City Council, in consultation with CELDF, on November 16th. This is their story.
Read More | Community WiresAug 12, 2015
CELDF assists Envision Spokane in asking a judge to dismiss efforts to keep the people’s Worker Bill of Rights off the ballot. Spokane, WA’s, mayor filed the lawsuit.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 12, 2015
Highland Township, PA, supervisors voted last night to defend the people’s Community Bill of Rights banning frack wastewater injection wells. Seneca Resources Corporation claims it has a corporate “right” to inject wastewater in the township, and does not recognize the community’s right to protect their clean water.
Read More | Community WiresAug 11, 2015
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 than surrender their community’s rights. The vote was taken after Seneca Resources (Seneca) made good on a two year old threat to sue the Township to overturn the ordinance.
Read More | UncategorizedAug 11, 2015
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 rights of nature, and to local self-governance – and banning fracking wastewater injection wells as a violation of those rights.
Read More | UncategorizedAug 11, 2015
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 for permits to drill for natural gas in her Township. She says she and her neighbors don’t want their community transformed the way others have been, from a livable, appealing and safe environment into a poisoned moonscape.
Read More | UncategorizedAug 11, 2015
Aug 11, 2015
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 exist and flourish.
Read More | Community Wires, Press Releases & BlogsAug 9, 2015
The Ohio Secretary of State’s Office is expected to make a decision by this Thursday on whether a proposed charter government for Athens County will go on the November ballot.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 6, 2015
Aug 5, 2015
As the City of Spokane sues its own citizens in an attempt to keep a Worker Bill of Rights off the ballot, this opinion piece points out the hypocrisy and the anti-democratic tactics of City Hall.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 3, 2015
The city of Spokane attempts to keep the people of Spokane from voting on their own Worker Bill of Rights, filing a lawsuit to block the duly qualified initiative from the November ballot.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 3, 2015
Despite the constitutional right of Spokane, WA, citizens to vote on their own Worker Bill of Rights, the City of Spokane files suit in an attempt to block the qualified initiative from the ballot.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJul 25, 2015
Spokane, WA, residents successfully place a Worker Bill of Rights initiative on the November ballot. The city council is working to place advisory questions on the ballot as well, to deter voters from supporting the measure.
Read More | Community WiresJul 24, 2015
Jackson County, IL, residents launch a campaign to advance a Community Bill of Rights banning fracking as a violation of their rights to clean air and water.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJul 20, 2015
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 of Nature and to achieve their right to self-determination. CELDF travels to the Archipelago this month. Learn more here.
Read More | UncategorizedJul 20, 2015
The people of Colorado express esprit de corps with and appreciation of the people of Oregon as both states advance community rights to stop fracking and its infrastructure and make real the promise of democratic self-governance.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJul 14, 2015
CELDF receives support from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.
Read More | UncategorizedJul 4, 2015
Our existing system of law is aimed at constant growth, development, and extraction – and conventional environmental advocacy works around the edges of this system, rather than takes it on directly.
Read More | PublicationsJul 3, 2015
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 in the American Revolution – and where Community Rights are being reclaimed again today.
Read More | News from the GrassrootsJun 24, 2015
Trying to protect your community from any number of threats? Check out Common Sense, CELDF’s community rights organizing primer.
Read More | UncategorizedJun 14, 2015
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 York Times opinion piece.
Read More | UncategorizedJun 13, 2015
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 the right to democratic, local self-governance.
Read More | UncategorizedJun 13, 2015
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 the right to democratic, local self-governance.
Read More | UncategorizedJun 8, 2015
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 and protect their County from an LNG export terminal.
Read More | UncategorizedJun 5, 2015
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 structure of law and governance such that the rights of communities and nature are elevated above corporate claimed “rights” to frack, mine, privatize water, etc. See page 2.
Read More | UncategorizedMay 12, 2015
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 Envision Spokane’s Worker Bill of Rights, aimed for the November 2015 ballot.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMay 12, 2015
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 Envision Spokane’s Worker Bill of Rights, aimed for the November 2015 ballot.
Read More | UncategorizedMay 10, 2015
Check out CCSAGE’s video: Columbia County, OR, residents partner with CELDF to advance Community Rights to stop fossil fuel transportation threatening their communities.
Read More | UncategorizedMay 1, 2015
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. Kann and other residents are tirelessly pursuing community rights to protect themselves from LNG pipelines, despite local government officials’ hostility.
Read More | UncategorizedMay 1, 2015
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. Kann and other residents are tirelessly pursuing community rights to protect themselves from LNG pipelines, despite local government officials’ hostility.
Read More | Community WiresApr 27, 2015
Author Evaggelos Vallianatos pays tribute to Audrey Moore of Josephine County, OR – a community rights advocate who recently died from cancer caused by the poisons she was unwavering in trying to stop. Audrey’s work lives on in those around her, who are steadfast in advancing the right of all living things to be free from chemical trespass.
Read More | UncategorizedApr 25, 2015
In a letter-to-the-editor, New Hampshire resident and New Hampshire Community Rights Network member Pamela Martin recognizes CELDF’s work to support communities in protecting their rights over corporate claimed “rights” and government interests.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsApr 23, 2015
As Athens County, OH, residents are subjected to increasing quantities of fracking wastewater imported into their communities, they are finding no remedy in their state government. It’s time for residents to stand together to protect their health, safety, and welfare.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsApr 20, 2015
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 been a truly formidable force and trailblazer for community rights in Oregon.
Read More | UncategorizedApr 18, 2015
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 part of building a community rights movement that is rebuilding our structure of law and governance.
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