CELDF's Thomas Linzey speaks to the community rights movement. Growing numbers of people are using community rights to challenge corporate claimed "rights" and state preemption,…
Press Release: New Hampshire Legislature to Consider CELDF-Drafted State Constitutional Amendment
A CELDF-drafted state constitutional amendment recognizing the rights of communities to govern themselves is being introduced in the New Hampshire legislature.
The Spokesman-Review: Election preview: Spokane Proposition 1, the Worker Bill of Rights
Spokane, WA's, Worker Bill of Rights initiative places worker rights over corporate privileges. “If we are about creating ...sustainability, we can’t get there without actually…
The World: Your View: Time for people to reject corporate shackles
Future generations in Coos County, OR, have a fundamental and unalienable right to a sustainable economy and energy future. Coos residents advance their bill of…
Boulder Weekly: Letters – Community Rights
Boulder, CO, resident Rick Casey urges discussion and exploration of community rights and the community rights state ballot initiative, heading for the November 2016 ballot.
Eugene Weekly: Fighting Back Against Corporate Rights
CELDF's Thomas Linzey returns to Oregon on a speaking tour, addressing community rights as a challenge to corporate harms such as GMOs and coal trains.…
Statesman Journal: Salem talk starts “community rights” events
In Oregon and across the U.S., community rights is growing into a people's movement. CELDF's Thomas Linzey is on a community rights tour in Oregon,…
Wisconsin Public Radio: Ho-Chunk Nation Amends Constitution To Add Environmental Protections
Tribal members add the rights of nature to their constitution, in order to strengthen protections against corporate harms. Over the last decade, CELDF has helped…
Commonweal: Pope Francis to UN: Respect the ‘Right of the Environment’
In a stunning assertion during a speech to the U.N., the Pope asserted the need to recognize the Rights of Nature. For over a decade,…
WKBN First News 27: Youngstown fracking amendment makes another run, group supports passage
Frack Free Mahoning Valley members urge support in Youngstown for a Community Bill of Rights banning fracking, which is on the November ballot.
Truthout: Campaign for a “Worker Bill of Rights” Puts ALEC in Spokane’s Crosshairs
Spokane, WA's Worker Bill of Rights asserts the right to community decision-making over corporate claimed "rights" to call the shots. And in Colorado, residents' community…
Earth Island Journal: Government and Gas Industry Team Up Against Local Fracking Ban Initiatives in Ohio
Reporter Simon Davis-Cohen reveals how Ohio state government used tax payers' money, hiring private oil and gas industry law firms to keep the people's community…
Press Release: Ohio Supreme Court Upholds the Right of the People of Youngstown to Vote on a Citizens’ Initiative
The people of Youngstown’s constitutional right to vote on a local Bill of Rights charter amendment initiative was upheld by the Ohio Supreme Court.
Aurora Advocate: Were Supreme Court cases victors really the victors?
While the Ohio Secretary of State spins a "win" in last week's Ohio Supreme Court decision, the Justices in fact slapped his wrist for his…
Vindy.com: Ohio Supreme Court orders frack ban onto Nov. ballot
After slapping the wrist of Ohio's Secretary of State for attempting to rule on the content of community rights initiatives in three counties, the Ohio…
WFMJ: Court overrules election board on Youngstown anti-fracking amendment
Youngstown, OH, residents' Community Bill of Rights charter amendment banning fracking has been ordered back on the ballot by the Ohio Supreme Court.
Press Release: Ohio Supreme Court Rules Against Secretary of State
The Ohio Supreme Court rules in favor of the democratic rights of citizens, and against the Ohio Secretary of State's claimed "unfettered authority" to block…
Chron: Ohio Supreme Court rejects fracking foes’ ballot protest
While three Ohio counties are unable to place their community rights charter amendments on the November ballot for a technicality, the Ohio Supreme Court makes…
The Athens News: Bill of rights/charter won’t be on November ballot in Athens
Ohio Supreme Court keeps Home Ruler charter initiatives off the November ballot in three Ohio counties; slaps Secretary of State's wrist for attempting to keep…
Government and Corporations Collude Against the People: Ohio Is a Corporate State
Ohio government officials, both locally and at the state level, use oil and gas industry law firms in an attempt to keep the people's ballot…
Be the Change: How to Get What You Want in Your Community
A revolutionary handbook that shows everyday citizens how to stand up and take control of their local governments. With assistance from the cutting-edge methodology of…
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