Several communities in three counties face Rover pipelines and a compressor station north of Defiance, OH. Residents gathered at a OEPA hearing to make clear…
Agua Para Tod@s: Cientos de comunidades en EEUU están construyendo escudos legales frente a las empresas de energéticos
Simon Davis-Cohen's article on communities in the U.S. learning from indigenous peoples and leveraging community rights to overcome unjust western legal doctrines, is reprinted here…
Press Release: Spokane Initiative to Ban Coal, Oil Trains as Threat to Climate and Public Safety
Coal and oil trains passing through Spokane, WA, spark physician Gunnar Holmquist to take action, filing a CELDF-drafted Community Bill of Rights charter amendment banning…
KPLU 88.5: Grassroots Group Decries Port Of Tacoma’s Move To Block Ballot Measures Over Industrial Water Use
The corporate state in Tacoma, WA, attempts "...to use the court as a weapon to strangle democracy in Tacoma." Residents are advancing their right to…
Community Rights Paper #13: Breaking the Planet
Breaking the Planet takes an unflinching look at climate change, the legal and governing structures accelerating our own destruction, and the radical action necessary to…
Tacoma Daily Index: Port of Tacoma files suit to keep water initiatives off ballot
Tacoma, WA, residents fight to protect their water while their own local electeds stand against them. Local government and business interests are suing to block…
Akron Beacon Journal: Portage County group seeking signatures on petition calling for community bill of rights vote
Portage County, OH, residents gather signatures to place a Community Rights County Charter on the November ballot to ban fracking activities. Residents are advancing rights…
Truthout: Climate Justice From the Ground Up: Six Ballot Initiatives to Watch in 2016
Local communities are using their inalienable right to govern the places where they live to take action against climate change. Truthout highlights them here, including…
The Citizen: Let’s move forward in solidarity to fight for community
Residents in New Hampshire are relieved as Northeast Energy Direct withdraws its pipeline plans. But one resident says there is no win here - simply…
The Register-Guard: Stop aerial herbicide spraying in Lane County
Herbicides are found in Lane County, OR, residents from aerial pesticide spraying. Finding their state government protecting the corporate sprayers rather than the people, Oregon…
Community Rights Lane County Street Theater
As Lane County, OR, voters advance Community Rights, efforts are underway to block them. Community Rights Lane County uses street theater to help fight for…
The Bradford Era: Highland Township Home Rule Charter group holds first meeting
Highland Township, PA's Home Rule Study Commission was voted in last month. Last night, they held their first meeting to begin consideration of becoming a…
The Jambar: Activists Ask President Obama to End Fracking in Film
A screening of Dear President Obama at Youngstown State Univ. provokes discussion on how to address fracking. It is not, says CELDF's Tish O'Dell, about…
The World: Movement growing to defend against corporate interests
State governments block communities' efforts to stop harmful activities. Corporations sue the communities and are backed by the judiciary. What's left? Says blogger Mary Geddry:…
Daily Camera: John C. Lamb: Fracking decisions show the system is rigged
Colorado resident refuses to accede to the CO Supreme Court's recent ruling that denies the people's right to govern themselves and ban fracking. He calls…
Press Release: Court Overrides Josephine County’s Democratic Decision-Making
State preemption prevails again in this week's decision from a Josephine County, OR, Circuit Court judge, overturning the people's democratically enacted ban on GMOs.
Guest Blog: Updating EPA Frack Waste Regulations: Let’s Call it What it Is
Guest blogger Tish O'Dell of Broadview Heights, OH, observes that efforts to update frack waste regulations perpetuates harm. It's time to shift from slowing down…
YES! Magazine: Faced With a Fracking Giant, This Small Town Just Legalized Civil Disobedience
Grant Township, PA, residents send one clear, united message to the fracking industry: There will be no frack wastewater injection wells in our community. And…
The Laconia Daily Sun: Plymouth Selectboard’s Support of Northern Pass Would be Oath Violation
The NHCRN urges Plymouth, NH's, Selectboard to enforce the people's Right to a Sustainable Energy Future and Community Self-Government Ordinance, adopted by residents in 2012…
Press Release: Community Rights Ramps Up in Ohio
Today residents in Meigs County and the City of Waterville, OH, launched their petition campaigns to place rights-based initiatives before voters this November. Residents are…
The Tribune: Mailbox for May 10: Local Self-Government is needd
The overturning of fracking bans in Colorado reveals corporations have more "rights" than people, and our government is here to protect those claimed "rights." Coloradans…
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