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Nov 10, 2010
“Democracy Matters” Podcast for Nov. 10 – with Part I of our interview with Pittsburgh City Councilman Doug Shields on his measure to ban corporations from natural gas drilling
Read More | UncategorizedNov 7, 2010
Blaine Township is a small rural township some 45 miles west of Pittsburgh, in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Western Pennsylvania has been mining coal for 250 years, but no mining has occurred in Blaine and its residents and township supervisors aim to keep it that way.
Read More | Community WiresNov 4, 2010
“Democracy Matters” New Podcast for November 4, 2010 – with our election round-up and an interview with Ben Price on Pittsburgh’s proposed ordinance banning corporations from natural gas drilling
Read More | UncategorizedOct 28, 2010
“Democracy Matters” New Podcast for October 28, 2010 – with our interview with Yes! Magazine’s executive editor Sarah van Gelder
Read More | UncategorizedOct 26, 2010
Bill Belitskus, co-chair of Northwestern Pennsylvania Community Rights Network, has appealed to DuBois City Council to draft an ordinance prohibiting oil and gas extraction in residential areas.
Read More | UncategorizedOct 23, 2010
date: Saturday, October 23, 2010 time:1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
venue: Quakertown Branch James A. Michener Branch
address: 401 West Mill Street Quakertown, PA 18951
Read More | UncategorizedOct 21, 2010
“Democracy Matters” New Podcast for October 21, 2010 – with our interview with John Stauber
Read More | UncategorizedOct 14, 2010
“Democracy Matters” New Podcast for October 14, 2010 – with Part II of our interview with Derrick Jensen
Read More | UncategorizedOct 10, 2010
Oct 10, 2010
The chain that ensures an orderly society; rights have to be rooted in responsibilities.
Read More | UncategorizedOct 7, 2010
“Democracy Matters” New Podcast for September 30, 2010 – with Part I of our interview with Derrick Jensen
Read More | UncategorizedOct 3, 2010
Sep 30, 2010
“Democracy Matters” New Podcast for September 30, 2010 – Raw Milk and the FDA, the Tea Party – new party or just the new “right” of the Republican Party, and Bill Twist on Rights of Nature.
Read More | UncategorizedSep 23, 2010
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Read More | UncategorizedJun 23, 2010
“Democracy Matters” New Podcast for June 24th Available
Read More | UncategorizedJun 17, 2010
Monroe enacts local law asserting that the right of people to govern in their community is superior to legal claims that corporations are “persons” with constitutional rights.
Read More | UncategorizedJun 10, 2010
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Jun 2, 2010
“Democracy Matters” New Show Thurs., June 3rd – Podcast for May 27th and June 3rd Available
Read More | UncategorizedMay 17, 2010
We can disagree on many things as neighbors and residents, but we can ALL come together on one — what happens in Mt. Shasta that affects our health, safety, welfare, quality of life and sustainability of our natural environment should be ours alone to decide.
Read More | Community WiresMay 10, 2010
“Democracy Matters” New Show Thurs., May 13th – Podcast for May 6th is Up
Read More | UncategorizedApr 27, 2010
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 would prevent corporations from cloud seeding and bulk water extraction within Mount Shasta city limits.
Read More | UncategorizedApr 6, 2010
Municipality rejects State preemption
Read More | UncategorizedMar 31, 2010
CELDF’s Mari Margil authored a chapter entitled “A New Democracy in Action.”
Read More | UncategorizedFeb 28, 2010
The Pennsylvania Bar Association joined the fray last week by announcing the formation of a review commission to offer recommendations on what sort of constitutional changes should be taken up.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsFeb 28, 2010
The Pennsylvania Bar Association joined the fray last week by announcing the formation of a review commission to offer recommendations on what sort of constitutional changes should be taken up.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsFeb 20, 2010
To organize a people’s convention of delegates, representing municipal communities, who will propose constitutional changes to secure the inalienable right to local, community self-government free of state and corporate preemption.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJan 23, 2010
Small town takes on giant coal companies by applying local democracy to deny corporate “personhood.”
Read More | UncategorizedFeb 28, 2009
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 corporate water withdrawals.
Read More | UncategorizedDec 3, 2008
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 their pesticides! Watch and listen how other communities succeeded in doing so.
Read More | UncategorizedSep 28, 2008
Ecuador makes history with the people’s adoption of a new Constitution recognizing the Rights of Nature to exist and flourish.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsSep 28, 2008
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 Rights of Nature, or ecosystem rights.
Read More | Community Wires, Press Releases & Blogs, Success StorySep 2, 2008
Ecuador citizens are poised to vote on the adoption of the world’s first Constitution recognizing the Rights of Nature.
Read More | News from the GrassrootsJul 29, 2007
Barnstead, NH, residents use community rights to make governing decisions and protect their water from corporations.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryApr 6, 2006
The story of how two communities changed their thinking and their strategies, and became the first to adopt rights-based ordinances banning water privatization.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 9, 2005
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 nation. The chains were unwelcome. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, people in towns from coast to coast banded together to stop this corporate invasion, only to be beaten back by corporations and the federal government.
Read More | Press Releases & BlogsAug 30, 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 the old ruling class of its control in local affairs.
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