The Mount Shasta City Council voted unanimously Monday evening to order a special report on the Mt. Shasta Community Water Rights and Self-Governance Ordinance, which…
“Common Sense” Newsletter – August 2026: Walking the Columbia River with Julie Lomboy
Our August Common Sense monthly newsletter reveals how a prayer walk alone will not stop the destruction of the Columbia River. But it is a precursor to action. One cannot take bold action — especially action involving sacrifice — without spiritual commitment.
Press Release: Packer Township to enforce environmental standards the State says are too strong
Municipality rejects State preemption
The Bottom Line or Public Health: Tactics Corporations Use to Influence Health and Health Policy, and What We Can Do to Counter Them
CELDF's Mari Margil authored a chapter entitled "A New Democracy in Action."
Blaine Township, PA takes on King Coal
Small town takes on giant coal companies by applying local democracy to deny corporate "personhood."
Shapleigh, Maine, Residents Vote in Rights-Based Ordinance to Protect Their Water
At a special Town Meeting in February 2009, residents of Shapleigh, ME, voted to adopt an ordinance developed by CELDF to protect their water from…
Ben Price of CELDF and Shannon Biggs of Global Exchange present Rights-Based Ordinance to the People Against Chemical Trespass, Santa Cruz, CA
We as citizens of our communities can assert our rights and adopt a law that forbids corporations and government agencies from poisoning our towns with…
Press Release: Ecuador Approves New Constitution: Voters Approve Rights of Nature
By an overwhelming margin, the people of Ecuador today voted for a new constitution that is the first in the world to recognize legally enforceable…
Los Angeles Times: Ecology in Ecuador
Ecuador citizens are poised to vote on the adoption of the world's first Constitution recognizing the Rights of Nature.
Blog: A Movement Diverted – How Corporations Neutralized Anti-Chain Store Campaigns Of the 1920s and 1930s
Early in the 20th Century, giant corporations like Woolworth’s, Sears Roebuck, J.C. Penney, Ligget, and A&P began forcing their chain stores into communities across the…
Centralization and Popular Control, From: The Growth and Decadence of Constitutional Government, by J. Allen Smith, 1930
The attitude of the well-to-do classes toward local self-government was profoundly influenced by the extension of the suffrage…the removal of property qualifications tended to divest…
CELDF on the Radio
"Democracy Matters" Podcast for the week of Dec 13: A Debate on WikiLeaks, and featuring Part II of our interview with Professor Christopher Stone, author…
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