“It’s Already Been Decided? Who Decided That?”
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.


WNTK Talk Radio 99.7 FM: ‘Live and Local’ with Ben Sarro interviewing Steve Kudlik of Grafton, NH
Steve Cudlak of Grafton interview 9/2/13 on 99.7 on WNTK about RBO(Rights Based Ordinance/Wind Towers)
The Pacific Northwest Inlander: Judgment Day
Corporate and government interests in Spokane, WA, succeed in blocking citizens' initiatives that would establish Community Rights.
The Bradford Era: Earthquakes elicit Elk County opposition to proposed injection well
Elk County Commissioners speak out against fracking injection wells.
Why a Rights-Based Ordinance in Nottingham?
The rights of municipal corporations and communities have been eroded over time to where we, municipality and community, have very little power over our own…
Noozhawk: Fracking and the Rights of Nature
Community Rights and the Rights of Nature are changing our western legal paradigm, and are tools to protect Santa Barbara, CA, from fracking.
July 2013 CELDF Update
Updates and news from CELDF communities across the country.
Noozhawk: Protecting Santa Barbara County — Community Rights vs. Corporate Control
Wayne Mellinger on Community Rights to protect Santa Barbara from fracking corporate interests.

Local Lawmaking: A Call for a Community Rights Movement
While on their face these issues may appear to be different – ranging from corporate agribusiness to energy extraction – the communities on the receiving…
Piscataquis Observer: Sangerville group outlines community bill of rights to halt east-west highway
East Sangerville, ME, residents and selectmen partner with CELDF to use a Community Bill of Rights to stop a $2.1 billion limited access highway.
Press Release: Pennsylvania Community Rights Network (PCRN) Seats Founding Board of Directors
Declaring that the legitimate foundation of government is the right to local self-governance, the Pennsylvania Community Rights Network reviewed bylaws and officially launched the organization…
PA Community Rights Workshop – State College, PA, June 14th – 15th.
Residents are beginning to coalesce around the idea of pushing for a community-controlled sustainable energy planning process that includes enforcement teeth. CELDF has drafted ordinances…
Press Release: New Hampshire Community Rights Network Signs the Barnstead Declaration
The New Hampshire Community Rights Network signs the Barnstead Declaration, stating their intention to provide education for a statewide call for legislative and constitutional changes…
Read the Dirt: Does Food Sovereignty Exist in the United States? Food and the Community Rights Movement
Trisha Mandes speaks to the deficiencies of U.S. food activism and proposes an adaptive way forward. Trisha has worked with community-based food projects in Oregon…
Santa Maria Sun: Down the tube
San Luis Obispo, CA, residents consider a community rights ordinance to stop fracking before it starts.

Press Release: First County in U.S. Bans Oil and Gas Extraction
Mora County, NM, adopts first-in-the-nation ban on oil and gas extraction, protecting residents and local ecosystems from fracking.

Benton County Community Rights Coalition co-founder Clint Lindsey on TVSet to talk about Community Rights vs. GMOs

Benton County Community Rights Coalition co-founder Clint Lindsey on TVSet to talk about Community Rights vs. GMOs
On March 3rd at Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, Oregon, fifty farmers and food advocates from eight counties – Benton, Clackamas, Jackson, Josephine, Lane, Lincoln,…
CELDF Statement: A New Civil Rights Movement: Liberating Our Communities from Corporate Control
A Pennsylvania Judge Holds That Corporations Are Not “Persons” Under the Pennsylvania Constitution.

Fighting to Protect our Seed Heritage in Benton County: Clinton Lindsey of Willamette Valley, OR and co-founder of the Benton County Community Rights Coalition, is interviewed on Locus Focus.
Clinton Lindsey is interviewed by Barbara Bernstein of KBOO Community Radio about Benton County Community Rights Coalition, formed to protect Willamette Valley from GMO seed…
FIGHTING TO PROJECT OUR SEED HERITAGE IN BENTON COUNTY
On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with Clinton Lindsay, a 5th-generation farmer and local food advocate from Corvallis, Oregon, who is working with…