Highland Township in Elk County, PA, adopted a Community Bill of Rights Ordinance in January 2013, codifying the community’s rights to clean air, water, the…
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.
Community Organizing in Pennsylvania
My phone rings, and a very worried women on the other end tells me that she is outraged that a large energy corporation has applied…
Pennsylvania Overview
Press Release: Ecosystem, Community Group, and Municipal Authority File for Intervention in Lawsuit to Defend Community from Injection Well
HIGHLAND TOWNSHIP, PA: Today, an ecosystem in the United States filed a motion to intervene in a federal lawsuit to defend its own rights to…
Ohio Secretary of State to decide on charter protest this week
The Ohio Secretary of State’s Office is expected to make a decision by this Thursday on whether a proposed charter government for Athens County will…
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The Spokesman-Review: People, not city, should vote on workers’ bill of rights
As the City of Spokane sues its own citizens in an attempt to keep a Worker Bill of Rights off the ballot, this opinion piece…
Inlander: City of Spokane wants Worker Bill of Rights initiative off ballot, files suit
The city of Spokane attempts to keep the people of Spokane from voting on their own Worker Bill of Rights, filing a lawsuit to block…
Envision Worker Rights Media Statement: City Files Legal Challenge to Block the Democratic Rights of Voters
Despite the constitutional right of Spokane, WA, citizens to vote on their own Worker Bill of Rights, the City of Spokane files suit in an…
The Spokesman-Review: Workers Bill of Rights proposal qualifies for Spokane ballot
Spokane, WA, residents successfully place a Worker Bill of Rights initiative on the November ballot. The city council is working to place advisory questions on…
The Southern Illinoisan: Anti-fracking group drafting a community bill of rights
Jackson County, IL, residents launch a campaign to advance a Community Bill of Rights banning fracking as a violation of their rights to clean air…
The Rights of Nature & Self-Governance – San Andres Archipelago, Colombia
The Raizal people of the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina off the coast of Colombia work with CELDF to recognize the Rights…
The World: Your View: Kudos from the other end of the LNG pipe
The people of Colorado express esprit de corps with and appreciation of the people of Oregon as both states advance community rights to stop fracking…
Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Funds CELDF’s Work to Advance Rights to Local, Democratic Self-Governance and Rights of Nature
CELDF receives support from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.
On Community Civil Disobedience in the Name of Sustainability
Our existing system of law is aimed at constant growth, development, and extraction – and conventional environmental advocacy works around the edges of this system,…
Foster’s Daily Democrat: Reclaiming community rights is nothing new
A New Hampshire Community Rights Network Board member traces Community Rights back to colonial New England, where residents reclaimed those rights from the British Crown…
Common Sense: A Community Rights Organizing “Primer” from CELDF
Trying to protect your community from any number of threats? Check out Common Sense, CELDF's community rights organizing primer.
The New York Times: Stop Revering Magna Carta
Some folks are celebrating 800 years of Magna Charta as if it were a sacred document. Others...not so much. Why? Read more in this New…
Ohio Community Rights Network: Join with OHCRN to grow the Community Rights Movement today!
A video on the work of OHCRN in growing Community Rights to help protect all Ohioans from harmful activities threatening clean air, pure water, and…
Ohio Community Rights Network: Join with OHCRN to grow the Community Rights Movement today!
A video on the work of OHCRN in growing Community Rights to help protect all Ohioans from harmful activities threatening clean air, pure water, and…
Geddry: Wall dares invoke the constitution
Recognizing sustainability is illegal under our current structure of law, blogger Magix of Coos County urges the Community Bill of Rights to challenge the law…
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