Thank you for supporting us in 2013! With your contributions, we will expand our work in 2014, meeting the growing numbers of requests for help…
Solidarity Against Tyranny: Frontline Resistance Insights from the Philippines and Appalachian South
On July 21st at 6pm PDT / 9pm EDT, 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.
Huffington Post: Colorado Communities Could Ban Fracking Under New Proposed Amendment
A proposed amendment to Colorado's constitution that would give municipalities the power to ban or restrict fracking and other industrial activities would be the first…
Press Release: Colorado Community Rights Network Files Constitutional Amendment To Secure the Right to Community Self-Government Free from State Preemption
Denver, Colorado, January 20, 2014 - The Colorado Community Rights Network (COCRN) has submitted to the state for review and comment the language for a…
CELDF’s Natalie Long, Illinois Community Rights Organizer, is interviewed by Niala Boodhoo on WBEZ 91.5 Chicago’s Afternoon Shift
Activists in Southern Illinois are getting ready for a fight to ban fracking in Johnson County. They launched a ballot initiative to urge the county…
National Catholic Reporter: Nature’s rights gain some legal standing
At the Global Rights of Nature Summit in Otavalo, Ecuador, CELDF representatives and other organizations gather to call for the advancement of the Rights of…
FAQs – Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ruling on Act 13
Q. Does the Act 13 ruling ban fracking in Pennsylvania? A. No. The Act 13 ruling allows municipal governments to return to their status prior…
Pennsylvania’s Act 13 – Fracking
On December 19, 2013, the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court found much of Act 13 unconstitutional. CELDF issued a press statement and FAQs
Press Release: Statement on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Ruling that Parts of Act 13 are Unconstitutional
“This ruling, while welcome, does not stop fracking of Pennsylvania’s communities, nor does it recognize the right of the people of Pennsylvania to govern their…
CELDF partner in Rights of Nature work, Fundacion Pachamama, Shut Down by Ecuadorian Government
CELDF partner, Fundacion Pachamama, was shut down this week by the Ecuadorian government. Learn more on how you can help.
Local Officials Standing Up to Protect Their Communities from Fracking
As Mora County, NM, and Lafayette, CO, face oil and gas industry challenges to their Community Bills of Rights banning fracking, we are re-posting an…
East Boulder County United statement on COGA’s lawsuit against Lafayette’s Community Rights initiative
Faced with the loss of four democratic votes against oil and gas development across the Front Range this November, the Colorado Oil and Gas Association…
Ohio and Colorado Voters Adopt Community Bills of Rights
On Election Day, voters in an Ohio and a Colorado community enacted Community Bills of Rights to secure the right to local self-government and to…
Press Release: Ohio and Colorado Voters Adopt Community Bills of Rights
Lafayette, CO, and Oberlin, OH, residents ban fracking as a violation of rights with strong majority wins.
CELDF’s Northwest Community Rights Organizer Kai Huschke speaks on Washington’s Initiative I-517, on the ballot 11/5. Click here to listen.
Initiative 517 is an initiative on initiatives, designed to make it easier to qualify initiatives for the ballot. I-517 would expand the time allotted to…
The Piscataquis Observer: Letter to the Editor – Sangerville a leader in self-governance
Sangerville, ME, resident stands behind their first-in-the-nation Community Bill of Rights infrastructure ordinance, adopted by residents in September.
Live Debate On I-517: The Initiative On Initiatives
Steve Scher talks with both sides of the initiative in a live debate: Kai Huschke, an organizer for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, and…
October 2013 CELDF Update
Updates from Oregon to Austraila in this month's CELDF's newsletter.
Read the Dirt: When The State Pushes Back
Editor Simon Davis-Cohen interviews CELDF's Pacific Northwest Community Organizer Kai Huschke about our structure of law and governance that functions to deny communities' rights when…
September 2013 CELDF Update
Ohio communities ban fracking, CELDF in Australia and new Democracy schools starting up.
Press Release: Sangerville, ME, Adopts Community Bill of Rights Ordinance to Reject Transportation & Distribution Corridors
Voters in Sangerville, ME, adopt a Community Bill of Rights ordinance to protect their municipality from a private transportation corridor.
Press Release: Oregon Communities Launch Statewide Network for Community Rights
On September 12th, community members from eight Oregon counties gathered in Corvallis, Oregon, to launch the Oregon Community Rights Network (ORCRN).
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