As the New Hampshire Community Rights state constitutional amendment moves forward to a legislative committee, Representative Ellen Read voices her support for the amendment. Listen…
Union Leader: Plymouth residents take aim at Northern Pass with new ordinance
Facing a massive electrical power corridor cutting through New Hampshire, the people of Plymouth ban the project in their Town using Community Rights. Next step:…
Blog: One Final New Year’s Resolution for 2018
Let's stop lying to each other and stop protesting. Let's start truth-telling and begin building our communities based on rights. It's time.
The Laconia Daily Sun: Let’s not wait for the Legislature’s permission to self-govern
A former Selectperson from Ashland, NH, writes this LTE on the NH Community Rights state constitutional amendment. We are born with the inalienable right to…
In These Times: Does the Natural World Needs Its Own Bill of Rights?
Environmental regulations aren't doing much for the environment - but recognizing nature's rights is.
Press Release: New Hampshire Community Rights Amendment Advances to Public Committee Hearing
New Hampshire residents and the NHCRN advance a Community Rights state constitutional amendment to the legislative committee hearing.
Non-Profit Quarterly: Nonprofit Legal Firm Ordered to Pay for its Defense of Anti-Fracking City Ordinance
Sanctioning public interest attorneys for defending Grant Township, PA's, ban on fracking wastewater injection wells is the next step in efforts to stop communities from…
Blog: When we fight, we win
Why are attacks from the corporate state escalating against communities who are advancing basic rights and protecting themselves from harm? And what's next?
Urgent Ohio Democracy Alert from the OHCRN
With House Joint Resolution 5 (HJR5), the Ohio legislature is sabotaging the people's democratic rights.
Desmog: Court Orders Nonprofit Law Firm to Pay $52,000 to Oil and Gas Company for Defending Local Fracking Waste Ban
Community Rights is growing, and this is the corporate state's punitive response.
Blog: Having a Dream is Just the Beginning
Dr. Martin Luther King is remembered for his extraordinary leadership in advancing Civil Rights. Let us not forget, either, how the system he and his…
The Athens News: City Council commits to codifying citizen-OKed laws, including anti-fracking, pot de-penalization
Protecting water means enforcing their Community Bill of Rights fracking ban, says Athens, OH, residents. The rights-based law was adopted overwhelmingly by residents in 2014.
Rolling Stone: The Rights of Nature Movement Goes on Trial
The people of Grant Township, PA, are fiercely defending their right to clean air and water. A federal judge sanctions two attorneys for standing with…
Press Release: Federal Court Sanctions Lawyers for Defending Community’s Right to Say “No” to Frack Wastewater Injection Wells
The corporate state's judiciary punishes attorneys defending Grant Township, PA, residents against the oil and gas industry by imposing sanctions.
Blog: Seceding from Ourselves
Abolitionists urged secession to end the slave state. Explore secession to end the corporate state.
Daily Camera: Lafayette to meet with legal fund on fracking ban defense, over counsel’s concerns
Lafayette, CO, city council looks to defend its Right to Climate ordinance banning fracking activities, holding an open forum with CELDF on strategies to do…
The Guardian: New Zealand gives Mount Taranaki same legal rights as a person
As part of the growing Rights of Nature movement, this sacred mountain in New Zealand is now recognized as having rights.
Fosters.com: We the people shall rule
People have always risen up to right the wrongs inflicted by the ruling elite. That time has come again, and the people of New Hampshire…
Press Release: First Rights of Nature Easement Established in Hawaii
As part of the growing Rights of Nature movement, the first conservation easement in Hawaii recognizing the Rights of Nature now protects 8 acres of…
The Pulse: Do Streams Have Rights?
The Rights of Nature is growing, from concept to practice. While regulations don't protect nature or people, rights do.
The New Political: Here’s how the Ohio Community Rights Network is reforming the Ohio Constitution
CELDF, the Ohio Community Rights Network, and Athens County, OH, residents are partnering together to advance democratic and environmental rights to all Ohio residents.
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