The editors of YES! Magazine bring together voices from inside and outside Occupy Wall Street to convey the issues, possibilities, and personalities associated with the…
When Civil Rights Matter: The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund is a non-profit, public interest law firm providing free and affordable legal services to communities facing threats to their…
The Next Step: Beyond Sustainable Agriculture
Turning Occupation into Lasting Change
If the Occupy movement is to succeed over time, it must follow the lead of community rights building efforts that have begun work to dismantle…
Envision Spokane: Worker Rights, Not Corporate Employer Rights
Cross the threshold into a private workplace and POOF!, your constitutional rights disappear. It’s true. Gone go your First, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights,…
Envision Spokane: River Rights, Not Corporate Polluter Rights
Prop. 1 would establish the highest protections for the River and Aquifer – recognizing their rights to exist; it then provides for us – as…
Envision Spokane: Neighborhood Rights, Not Corporate Developer Rights
Today, corporate developers have more rights than our neighborhoods. Prop. 1 would require developers to obtain neighborhood approval for zoning changes involving significant development. It…
Envision Spokane: Community Rights, not Corporate Rights
It is time to reign in corporation so that they serve people, not the other way around. In Spokane, corporations are given the same legal…
Our Inalienable Rights to Freedom
Mora County, NM, Faces Fracking.
Why Local Communities Need to Assert Their Inalienable Rights to Self-Government
This is not just about newly unlimited corporate campaign contributions; it is about direct corporate decision-making in our communities.
CELDF: The Real Frackasaurus Coloring Book
On November 15, 2010, South Fayette Township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania passed a zoning ordinance regulating the location of oil and gas extraction activities in…
Envision Spokane Successfully Qualifies Initiative to the Ballot
Envision Spokane's Brad Read on the "Community Bill of Rights" Initiative.
CELDF’s Ben Price on Local Self Governance and Rights of Nature (Parts 1 through 3)
CELDF Projects Director Ben Prices talks with Simon Kaiwai of New Zealand, sharing knowledge of how communities have overcome such things as fracking, mining, water…
Pachamama Hosts Global Alliance for Rights of Nature in San Francisco
The Rights of Nature, The Case for a Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth. Co-produced by Global Exchange, the Council of Canadians, The…
Pachamama Hosts Global Alliance for Rights of Nature in San Francisco
Rights of Nature panel at Global Alliance for Rights of Nature, San Francisco.
Wired: Giving Nature Its Own Rights Might Avert Future Oil Disasters
Considering the rights of ecosystems dates to 1972 with Christopher Stone, and has evolved today to local laws establishing Rights of Nature as a means…
Oil Giant Gets a Shelling
David Versus Goliath Off the Irish Coast.
Sabrina Artel’s Trailer Talk: The Marcellus Shale Water Project
The Marcellus Shale Water Project.
Buffalo NY Bans Fracking
On February 9th, 2011 Buffalo, NY became the first municipality in New York State to ban hydraulic fracking.
Taking on Corporations and Giving Rights to Nature
Why 1 in 3 Children is Chronically Ill, and Wild Weather and Media Silence on Climate Connections.
Democracy Matters Radio
Net Neutrality - Corporate Control of the Internet. And drilling Ohio. This week on Democracy Matters Radio.
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