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Aug 21, 2014
With 60% of Lafayette, CO, residents adopting a Community Bill of Rights banning fracking last November, residents file a motion for a preliminary injunction against the State and the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA) to enforce their ban.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 19, 2014
Lafayette, CO, residents seek a preliminary injunction against the State of Colorado, the Governor, and the Colorado Oil and Gas Association to enforce their Community Bill of Rights banning fracking – adopted overwhelmingly by residents last November.
Read More | Community Wires, Press Releases & BlogsAug 12, 2014
Boulder County, CO, resident urges support for advancing communities’ rights over corporate claimed “rights” through Home Rule local self-governance.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 4, 2014
The Boulder County Community Rights Network in Colorado has gathered more than 10,000 signatures to place a home rule charter question on the ballot for May 2015. Residents are considering a home rule form of government to advance Community Rights and protect themselves from fracking.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJul 26, 2014
The Boulder County Community Rights Network in Colorado is gathering signatures in the first steps towards creating a Community Rights Home Rule Charter for the County. Supporters want to protect the County from fracking using Community Rights to local self-governance.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJul 25, 2014
CELDF announces Michelle Sanborn as our new New Hampshire Community Rights Network Coordinator. Michelle led her hometown of Alexandria, NH, in adopting a Community Bill of Rights banning unsustainable energy development projects in March 2014.
Read More | UncategorizedJul 25, 2014
The Boulder County Community Rights Network in Colorado gathers signatures to create a Home Rule Charter Commission, intending to enact a Home Rule Charter built on a Community Bill of Rights that would codify Boulder County’s right to ban fracking and other harmful activities.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJul 11, 2014
A simple ban on GMOs in Hawai’i County misses addressing our structure of law and governance that allows GMOs at all. To successfully stop them, ordinances are needed that challenge that structure and remove corporate claimed “rights” to plant GMOs against community wishes.
Read More | UncategorizedJul 10, 2014
Boulder County, CO, residents gather signatures to place an initiative on the November ballot. The measure is the first step in creating a Community Rights Home Rule Charter for the County that would elevate communities’ rights over corporate claimed “rights.”
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJul 1, 2014
We congratulate the victory in the New York Court of Appeals for banning fracking. We also recognize the Court, rather than affirming communities’ right to local self-governance, instead affirmed the state legislature may at any time remove those bans. Read more here.
Read More | Press Releases & BlogsJun 23, 2014
Highland Township, PA, residents, adopting a Community Rights Ordinance banning fracking injection wells in 2013, receive broad community support on Saturday at an event attended by Pennsylvania and Ohio communities.
Read More | Community WiresJun 15, 2014
A diary from occupystephanie draws parallels between Community Rights and other rights’ movements and describes CELDF’s work with municipalities across the U.S. to leverage those rights to protect ourselves and the natural environment from corporate harms.
Read More | UncategorizedJun 15, 2014
A diary from occupystephanie draws parallels between Community Rights and other rights’ movements, and describes CELDF’s work with municipalities across the U.S. to leverage those rights to protect ourselves and the natural environment from corporate harms.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJun 15, 2014
Communities and government representatives from across Elk County, PA, are invited to Highland Township’s community rights picnic gathering on Saturday, 6/21. The gathering will include speakers and community rights workshops.
Read More | Community WiresJun 13, 2014
Highland Township, PA, and CELDF are prepared to defend the Township’s Community Rights Ordinance banning wastewater injection wells as Seneca Resources moves a step closer to attempting to site a well.
Read More | Community WiresJun 10, 2014
Global Exchange’s Kiara Collins explores Mora County, NM’s, fight for all communities’ rights.
Read More | UncategorizedJun 4, 2014
In Part II, updates from Ann Kneeland of Community Rights Lane County; Audrey Moore of the Freedom From Pesticides Alliance in Josephine County; and Clint Lindsey, Benton County Community Rights Coalition.
Read More | UncategorizedJun 4, 2014
CELDF’s Thomas Linzey is the keynote speaker in a Community Rights event in Eugene, OR, on June 4th. Learn about how people in 200 communities across the U.S. are beginning to rewrite American constitutional law, elevating the right of local, community self-government above corporate “rights” and powers.
Read More | UncategorizedJun 2, 2014
Highland Township, PA, receives support from surrounding communities at the Residents Fight for Clean Water Picnic held Saturday. Highland residents face a fracking wastewater injection well, and are preparing to enforce their Community Bill of Rights banning the wells.
Read More | Community WiresMay 20, 2014
CELDF partner, Global Exchange, works with Mendocino County, CA, residents who are threatened with fracking. Residents are using Community Rights to protect themselves, gathering signatures for a Community Bill of Rights initiative banning fracking for the November ballot.
Read More | UncategorizedMay 15, 2014
The Mora County Legal Defense Fund was formed to protect Mora’s Community Rights – including their right to clean air and water, a healthy environment, and local self-governance – as they face a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, which claims a constitutional right to frack against the will of the people of Mora.
Read More | UncategorizedApr 17, 2014
Highland Township, PA, receives a letter of support from Jay Township, as Highland stands behind its Community Bill of Rights Ordinance banning fracking wastewater injection wells. Nearby Ridgeway Township sent a letter of support in March.
Read More | Community WiresApr 10, 2014
Support grows from other municipalities as Highland Township Supervisors stand by their Community Rights Ordinance banning fracking wastewater injection wells. The Township faces opposition from Seneca Resources Corporation.
Read More | Community WiresApr 1, 2014
Mendocino County, CA, residents work with CELDF’s partner Global Exchange in Community Rights organizing to protect their water. Communities are working on Community Bills of Rights, including a County level Ordinance.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 30, 2014
Residents in Johnson County, IL, are moving forward with next steps to protect their community from fracking through a Community Bill of Rights Ordinance.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 25, 2014
Johnson County, IL, residents present a Community Bill of Rights Ordinance to County Commissioners to protect the community from fracking.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 22, 2014
CELDF is retained by Highland Township, PA, to defend the Township’s Community Bill of Rights Ordinance banning fracking wastewater injection wells against Seneca Resources Corporation. Seneca wants to site an injection well and has threatened legal action to negate the community’s rights.
Read More | Community WiresMar 20, 2014
Mora County, NM, Commission Chairman John Olivas calls on communities across the U.S. to support the people of Mora County as they face corporate assaults to have their Community Bill of Rights Ordinance banning fracking overturned. Only through standing together, he says, can we recreate “we the people,” and begin to build the communities we envision.
Read More | UncategorizedMar 19, 2014
Democracy School in Selingsrove, PA, in February 2014, revealed for particpants the structure of law we live under that keeps us from getting what we want in our communities – and offered what we can do about it.
Read More | UncategorizedMar 19, 2014
With over $20,000 available to pro-fracking interests to defeat a non-binding referendum in support of a Community Bill of Rights banning fracking, Johnson County residents voted it down. Community Rights supporters promise to move forward.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 19, 2014
A local media blackout against Community Rights in Johnson County, IL, affects ballot outcome.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 19, 2014
Ridgeway Township, PA, Board of Supervisors writes a letter of support for Highland Township, which is taking a stand against Seneca Resources Corporation’s plans to site a fracking wastewater injection well. The Township adopted a Community Bill of Rights banning injection wells in 2013.
Read More | Community WiresMar 18, 2014
Community Rights opponents in Johnson County, IL, claim a hollow victory when a media blackout kept out Community Rights advocates and the state Chamber of Commerce funded $23,000 of propaganda against them.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 14, 2014
As the EPA approves a wastewater injection well permit in Highland Township, PA, for Seneca Resources, the Township Supervisors, with standing-room-only support from the community, retains CELDF to defend their Community Bill of Rights Ordinance banning injection wells.
Read More | Community WiresMar 13, 2014
Highland Township Supervisors in Pennsylvania receive overwhelming support from residents to enforce their Community Rights Ordinance banning fracking wastewater injection wells, as Seneca Resources presses forward with a planned well.
Read More | Community WiresMar 6, 2014
Highland Township, PA, prepares to enforce its CELDF-drafted Community Bill of Rights Ordinance banning injection wells against Seneca Resources Corporation.
Read More | Community WiresFeb 28, 2014
Highland Township, PA, stands behind its Community Bill of Rights banning injection wells with the support of Township Supervisors, residents, and CELDF, as Seneca Resources vows to fight the rights-based ordinance.
Read More | Community WiresFeb 28, 2014
Western University students in Bellingham, WA, call on their peers to launch a Community Bill of Rights initiative in Bellingham.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsFeb 24, 2014
Feb 16, 2014
CELDF, a founding member of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, joined in an international gathering hosted by the Alliance in Octavalo, Ecuador, in January. Read more here.
Read More | UncategorizedFeb 12, 2014
CELDF affirms it will defend Highland Township, PA’s Community Bill of Rights Ordinance that bans fracking wastewater injection wells against Seneca Resources, which has been issued a permit by the EPA to site an injection well within the township.
Read More | Community WiresFeb 11, 2014
A diary from occupystephanie on Oregon Community Rights and sustainable food systems in the face of hostile state and corporate interests.
Read More | UncategorizedFeb 10, 2014
A diary from occupystephanie on Oregon Community Rights and sustainable food systems in the face of hostile state and corporate interests.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsFeb 9, 2014
A fight to protect the Willamette Valley, OR, from GM seed reveals itself to be a fight to protect Community Rights to create local, sustainable food systems, and the right to local self-governance.
Read More | Community WiresJan 31, 2014
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Read More | UncategorizedJan 25, 2014
A proposed amendment to Colorado’s constitution that would give municipalities the power to ban or restrict fracking and other industrial activities would be the first of its kind nationwide if it passes.
Read More | News from the GrassrootsJan 21, 2014
Denver, Colorado, January 20, 2014 – The Colorado Community Rights Network (COCRN) has submitted to the state for review and comment the language for a Community Rights Constitutional Amendment to be placed on the 2014 ballot.
Read More | News from the GrassrootsJan 17, 2014
Activists in Southern Illinois are getting ready for a fight to ban fracking in Johnson County. They launched a ballot initiative to urge the county board to enact a ban on fracking late last year. The issue is now on the ballot for the March 18 primary election. Natalie Long, an organizer with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, says fracking should be an issue of local control. Long joins us.
Read More | UncategorizedJan 16, 2014
At the Global Rights of Nature Summit in Otavalo, Ecuador, CELDF representatives and other organizations gather to call for the advancement of the Rights of Nature to protect the planet.
Read More | News from the GrassrootsDec 20, 2013
Q. Does the Act 13 ruling ban fracking in Pennsylvania? A. No. The Act 13 ruling allows municipal governments to return to their status prior to the adoption of Act 13 – that of being able to adopt local zoning ordinances which control where oil and gas drilling can occur on the surface within the community.
Read More | Uncategorized