The Oberlin Review urges Oberlin, OH's City Council to stop working to reroute the NEXUS pipeline, and stand behind its Community Bill of Rights banning…
Guest Opinion: Pushing for community rights
Mary Russell of Carbondale, CO, advocates for community rights as a tool for the people to make self-governing decisions in their communities, and urges support…
Two Landslide Wins in PA
In November, both Grant Township and West Chester Borough, PA, residents adopt community rights measures to assert their authority for self-determination and to protect themselves…
CELDF Celebrates 20 Years!
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund turns 20 years old! What began as a mission to help communities fight permits has evolved into a Community…
Keene Sentinel: Rindge state rep wants to amend NH constitution
New Hampshire state representative Susan Emerson sponsors the NH Community Rights Network's community rights state constitutional amendment, aimed to protect rights to democratic, local self-governing…
Dave Solomon’s Power Plays: NH joins energy community rights network
The New Hampshire Community Rights Network, supported by growing numbers of Towns across the state, receives legislative endorsement for a state constitutional amendment securing the…
Spokane: Ballot Box and Court Room for Rights
This November, Spokane, WA, residents led groundbreaking work in advancing worker rights, and made a stand for community rights in the Washington Supreme Court.
The BG News: Environmental lawyer calls for revolt against corporations
Rather than protecting people's rights to local self-government and clean air and water, our legal and governing structures are designed to protect corporations as they…
Students, Communities Protest Proposed Pipeline
As the NEXUS pipeline threatens residents of Oberlin, OH, community groups join together, using community rights to assert their local self-governing authority to stop construction.
Oil & Gas Industry vs. Community Rights
Coloradan Merrily Mazza distinguishes between frack ban efforts that neglect to address people's community right to local self-government, and those that place that right as…
Spokane,WA 2013 Community Bill of Rights goes to state Supreme Court
After City and corporate interests kept Spokane residents' 2013 Community Bill of Rights off the ballot, CELDF argues before the Washington Supreme Court to recognize…
November Elections Update
Learn the latest news from election day in Grant Township and West Chester, PA; Youngstown, OH; and Spokane, WA. And check out the launch of…
Eagle Times: Legislators take a stand for NH community rights
Representatives in the New Hampshire state legislature endorse a statewide Community Rights state constitutional amendment guaranteeing the rights of the people to democratic local self-government…
The Medina-Gazette: NEXUS gas compressor sparks concerns
Medina County, OH, residents attend a standing-room-only meeting about a proposed NEXUS pipeline that would cut through their communities. Residents declare they will continue to…
Pittsburgh Business Times: This town hates frack waste so much it refuted a federal judge’s ruling and adopted a new charter to ban it
Grant Township, PA, residents refuse to accept a federal judge's ruling in favor of a fracking corporation that wants to site an injection well. Instead,…
Press Release: Youngstown Residents Just Shy of Codifying Community Rights
Youngstown, OH, community rights supporters came within 345 votes of adopting their rights-based charter amendment banning fracking, and are ready to press forward.
Press Release: West Chester, PA, Voters Adopt Community Rights Charter Amendment Banning Fracking Wastewater, Pipelines, and Drilling
The people of West Chester, PA, vote overwhelmingly to assert their community rights and ban fracking activities from their borough. They join dozens of other…
Common Dreams: No Longer Willing to be Bullied and Fracked, How One Pennsylvania Town Fought Back
Grant Township is the first community in the U.S. to draft and adopt their municipal charter based entirely on community rights. In so doing, they…
Press Release: Despite Court Ruling, Grant Township Bans Fracking Injection Wells Again, Through Municipal Charter
The people of Grant Township, PA, adopt the first rights-based charter in the country banning frack wastewater injection wells, two weeks after a federal judge…
The Vindicator: Community Bill of Rights supporters gather at lounge
Youngstown, OH, residents supporting a Community Bill of Rights charter amendment banning fracking, recognize that regardless of election results, their advancing of rights is building…
The World: Power in the hands of the people
Coos County, OR, resident urges a rejection of projects with short term benefit and long term environmental and economic harm. Instead, the Coos County Sustainable…
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