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Jul 25, 2018
Join CELDF in this unique opportunity to advance the emerging Community Rights movement in the United States.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJul 20, 2018
Industrial farming threatens air, water, and local economies – and Todd Township, PA, residents work with CELDF to stop it.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryJul 10, 2018
Residents in Columbus, OH, successfully qualify a Community Bill of Rights initiative for the November ballot. The measure bans fracking extraction and waste from within city limits as a violation of democratic and environmental rights.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryJul 10, 2018
Todd Township, PA, supervisors fulfill on their commitment to protect the health, safety, and welfare of township community members, voting to adopt a Community Bill of Rights prohibiting industrial farming.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryJun 25, 2018
CELDF attorney Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin advocates that the fight for ecosystem rights will be most effective working side by side with the fights for decolonization and for democracy.
Read More | News from the GrassrootsJun 21, 2018
Lafayette, CO, City Council attempts to move forward with legalizing fracking while residents plan next steps to protect the community.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJun 20, 2018
A right to a healthy climate is preserved in Lafayette, CO, as community members overtake a City Council meeting.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryJun 20, 2018
As community members in Lafayette, CO, demand their City Council stand by the City’s Climate Bill of Rights, they force the council meeting to adjourn. Council members were attempting to legalize drilling.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJun 20, 2018
Lafayette, CO, residents shut down City Council, protecting their Climate Bill of Rights as council members attempt to legalize fracking.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryMay 23, 2018
As the recognition of Rights of Nature grows globally, we must move beyond thinking of nature as having legal personhood rights. We must recognize rights of ecosystems to existence, regeneration and restoration.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMay 18, 2018
On May 16, 2018, a CELDF representative presented at the PPT on fracking as a violation of the Rights of Nature and the human right to a healthy environment.
Read More | News from the Grassroots, Success StoryMay 14, 2018
Check out the stories being submitted as evidence this week at the international Permanent People’s Tribunal, where the PPT is considering fracking, climate change, and the violation of the rights of people and nature.
Read More | News from the GrassrootsMay 7, 2018
Newmarket, Durham, and Newington, NH, residents are a part of the growing Community Rights movement building across the state as they work to protect the Lamprey Watershed from a number of corporate projects.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMay 1, 2018
Todd Township, PA, residents urge township supervisors to adopt their Community Bill of Rights banning a pig factory farm that threatens their community.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsApr 24, 2018
This is what it looks like when elected officials and courts block direct democracy – citizen initiative rights are stripped and communities’ health, safety, and welfare are disregarded.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsApr 19, 2018
Michelle Holman is a Community Rights activist in Lane County, OR, where she is fighting aerial-sprayed pesticides with residents and allies. Here, a short video story on her activism and why Community Rights.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsApr 10, 2018
Human rights to a healthy environment are gaining recognition – and today, the rights of nature are growing as well. Here, CELDF’s Mari Margil speaks to how recognizing ecosystem rights is central to tackling environmental degradation.
Read More | News from the GrassrootsApr 5, 2018
State preemption is growing, community members across the U.S. disapprove, and no liberal or conservative political party is coming in to save the day. Instead, people are beginning to take matters into their own hands.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsApr 5, 2018
“Colombia’s Supreme Court issued a historic ruling combating climate change in Latin America.”
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryMar 31, 2018
First initiated with CELDF in the U.S. in 2006, today our Rights of Nature is global. Here, its growing recognition in Australia to protect rivers and indigenous peoples.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 28, 2018
A circuit court judge renders meaningless the right to citizen initiative in Lane County, OR. Here’s how, why, and a call for the people to change our legal structure.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 20, 2018
Carol Van Strum has dedicated her life to fighting pesticides. Here an interview with Van Strum and CELDF’s Kai Huschke on pesticides, Community Rights, and protecting our communities from corporate harms.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 20, 2018
Lafayette, CO, residents are unrelenting in their determination to protect their community from fracking harms. At City Council, they insist on enforcement of their Climate Bill of Rights and urge adoption of a non-violent direct action amendment.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 19, 2018
Integrating art with the environmental movement, the 2018 National Water Dance will take place across the U.S. on April 14th. Core Dance is partnering with CELDF and other organizations to build alliances and protect water.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryMar 19, 2018
Community members in Lafayette, CO, rally behind an amendment to their Climate Bill of Rights that would legalize non-violent civil disobedience if necessary to stop fracking harms.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryMar 14, 2018
Carol Van Strum, Community Rights advocate and long time activist, receives the international David Brower Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding environmental and social justice work.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 9, 2018
See this story in The Register-Guard on Lane County, OR, residents fighting to protect themselves from aerially sprayed herbicides.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 8, 2018
An Athens County, OH, community member makes it clear: The people of Athens aren’t giving up their rights to govern themselves and protect their community from fracking wastewater, regardless of what the state says.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 6, 2018
Snohomish County, WA, residents partner with CELDF to assert their democratic rights and stop aerial sprayed pesticides.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 5, 2018
CELDF’s Thomas Linzey speaks to an overflowing crowd in Lafayette, CO, on defending their Climate Bill of Rights. The City’s ordinance bans fracking as a violation of rights.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 4, 2018
CELDF fights for the people’s right to vote in Athens County, OH, court of appeals.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 1, 2018
This powerful letter-to-the-editor by an Ashland, NH, resident, is what builds a people’s movement.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 1, 2018
Denied their right to vote by the Athens County Board of Elections in Ohio, county residents make their case today in the 4th district court of appeals. Residents qualified a rights-based county charter initiative in 2017 that banned fracking activities.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsFeb 23, 2018
With bi-partisan support, the New Hampshire House Municipal & County Government committee will vote how to recommend the Community Rights state constitutional amendment CACR19 to the full House next week.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsFeb 13, 2018
Columbus Free Press covers Ohio’s Dennis Kucinich and his support for a Community Rights state constitutional amendment.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryFeb 11, 2018
Community members advance community rights in Lane County, OR, fighting for their health and safety against the timber industry’s use of pesticides.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsFeb 8, 2018
Taking steps to assert decision-making authority over their own communities, New Hampshire residents work with the CELDF and NHCRN to advance a rights-based state constitutional amendment.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryFeb 6, 2018
New Hampshire supporters of a community rights state constitutional amendment urge the legislative committee to advance the amendment to the House.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsFeb 5, 2018
From ThinkProgress on the efforts of the oil and gas industry to stop Community Rights and Rights of Nature, the courageous communities who refuse to fold, and the growing momentum of this new legal paradigm.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsFeb 5, 2018
Plymouth, NH, residents are among the growing numbers of New Hampshire communities using Community Rights to stop projects harmful to their health, safety, and welfare.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryFeb 3, 2018
CELDF stands by Ohio residents. Together, the people succeeded in overturning unjust law, and today they are ramping up their efforts to advance democratic and environmental rights across the state.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryFeb 1, 2018
Lane County, OR, residents urge their county commissioners to place Community Rights measures on the ballot for a vote by the people. Residents are taking action to protect themselves from aerial spraying of herbicides.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJan 31, 2018
As the New Hampshire Community Rights state constitutional amendment moves forward to a legislative committee, Representative Ellen Read voices her support for the amendment. Listen here.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryJan 31, 2018
Facing a massive electrical power corridor cutting through New Hampshire, the people of Plymouth ban the project in their Town using Community Rights. Next step: a statewide amendment codifying Community Rights in the NH constitution.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryJan 25, 2018
A former Selectperson from Ashland, NH, writes this LTE on the NH Community Rights state constitutional amendment. We are born with the inalienable right to local community self-government, and we must exercise that right.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJan 24, 2018
Environmental regulations aren’t doing much for the environment – but recognizing nature’s rights is.
Read More | News from the Grassroots, Success StoryJan 22, 2018
Sanctioning public interest attorneys for defending Grant Township, PA’s, ban on fracking wastewater injection wells is the next step in efforts to stop communities from refusing harmful corporate projects.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJan 17, 2018
Community Rights is growing, and this is the corporate state’s punitive response.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJan 11, 2018
Protecting water means enforcing their Community Bill of Rights fracking ban, says Athens, OH, residents. The rights-based law was adopted overwhelmingly by residents in 2014.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJan 10, 2018
The people of Grant Township, PA, are fiercely defending their right to clean air and water. A federal judge sanctions two attorneys for standing with Grant and fighting for their rights.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots