What is it that keeps us from getting what we want in our communities? Why can’t we say, “No!” to harmful activities? The short answer…
Solidarity Against Tyranny: Frontline Resistance Insights from the Philippines and Appalachian South
On July 21st at 6pm Pacific Time, we invite you to join us for a special event, “Solidarity Against Tyranny,” to help answer this question. Featuring activists, organizers, and revolutionaries from the Philippines and the Appalachian South.
The System is Fixed and We Need to Break It
The system is broken! At CELDF we hear this all the time from communities asking for our help. Yet, to our eyes, the system is…
All is not Well in Grant Township
The true story of one community's struggle to save their heritage watershed. And the corporations actively trying to destroy it.
Press Release: Ohio Citizens Protest Against Secretary of State for denying their Constitutional Right to Vote
Ohio residents will demonstrate in downtown Columbus on Wednesday, against Ohio Secretary of State's recent decision to remove three Home Rule county charter initiatives from…
Press Release: National Community Rights Network Endorses NH Town ’ s Community Bill of Rights Ordinance
The National Community Rights Network backs Barrington, NH's Community Bill of Rights Ordinance banning resource extraction as a violation of residents' rights to clean air,…
Tamaqua Borough, Pennsylvania
The story of one Pennsylvania community gaining community rights.
Corporations and Natural Rights By Charles A. Beard
Chapter I, from “Jefferson, Corporations and the Constitution” originally published in The Virginia Quarterly Review, 1936
Tom Paine on Corporate Charters
I answer not to falsehood or abuse, but proceed to the defects of the English Government. I begin with charters and corporations.
Press Release: Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection Recognizes Community Authority to Ban Frack Wastewater Injection Wells
MERCERSBURG, PA: On August 12, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) took an unprecedented step, for the first time suspending the issuance of a…
The Putney Debates
Selections From “THE SPIRIT of AMERICAN GOVERNMENT”
Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production
Toxic Sludge is Good For You
The Strings that Control the Public Mind
How Public Relations Sold Sewage Disposal as Agricultural Recycling
Capital Press: Why initiatives should remain a power tool for citizens
The Oregon Secretary of State refuses to certify a duly qualified state constitutional amendment that would secure the right to democratic local self-government. This writer…
The Inlander: Worker Bill of Rights will be on ballot as city declines to appeal judge’s ruling
The Worker Bill of Rights is the fourth initiative from Envision Spokane, now operating under Envision Worker Rights, to qualify for the ballot. It would…
Press Release: Ohio Government Officials Again Deny Citizens the Right to Vote on Fracking
YOUNGSTOWN, OH: A week following Ohio Secretary of State John Husted’s ruling which stripped residents in three counties of their right to vote on Home…
Vindy.com: Mahoning elections board votes to keep Youngstown anti-fracking proposal off ballot
With the Mahoning County Board of Elections unanimously voting to keep a Youngstown anti-fracking charter amendment proposal off the Nov. 3 ballot, backers of the…
Read the Dirt: Hundreds of Communities Are Building Legal Blockades to Fight Big Carbon
Communities across the country - threatened by harmful carbon extraction - are leveraging community rights and lessons from indigenous peoples to use rights-based legal strategies,…
The Spokesman-Review: Recognize workers’ rights
While The Spokesman-Review got it right that all qualifying citizens’ initiatives should make it onto the ballot, the editorial board continues to get it wrong…
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