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Apr 5, 2017
Lafayette, CO, is the first community in the state to adopt a right to climate ordinance, recognizing the right of residents to a healthy climate.
Read More | Community Wires, Press Releases & Blogs, Success StoryApr 4, 2017
Environmental activists, leaders, and residents are touring Pennsylvania and Ohio, sharing what they are doing in the face of the corporate state attempting to force fossil fuel harms in their communities.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsApr 3, 2017
The High Court of Uttarakhand at Naintal in northern India issues a ruling declaring that glaciers and ecosystems have the rights of persons.
Read More | Community Wires, Press Releases & Blogs, Success StoryApr 3, 2017
Colorado youth gained a win with the recent Court of Appeals decision regarding the COGCC and fracking permits. But how far does that win go?
Read More | Community Wires, Press Releases & BlogsApr 2, 2017
A Coos County, OR, resident calls out local officials supporting the oil and gas industry, rather than supporting residents in building long term economic and environmental sustainability through the people’s May ballot measure.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsApr 2, 2017
People can’t be illegal, but policies that strip them of fundamental rights can be. What can we do? Govern ourselves in the places we live, establishing human rights to safety, dignity, and sanctuary.
Read More | News from the Grassroots, Press Releases & BlogsMar 31, 2017
It doesn’t get any clearer than this: our own environmental regulatory agencies suing communities who dare to protect the environment by banning fracking activities. Is there any question that we live in a corporate state?
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 30, 2017
Seeking to elevate environmental rights over corporate “rights,” Lincoln Co, OR, residents will vote on a ban on aerial pesticide spraying in May.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 30, 2017
Residents of Grant and Highland Townships, PA, are outraged by the Dept. of Environmental Protection’s lawsuits against them for rights-based laws banning frack waste injections wells.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 29, 2017
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection sues Townships with Community Rights Home Rule Charters to force in fracking injection wells.
Read More | Community Wires, Press Releases & BlogsMar 28, 2017
A state agency charged with protecting the health and safety of communities and the natural environment sues Grant and Highland Townships in Pennsylvania, attempting to force in frack wastewater injection wells against the will of the people.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 24, 2017
This week the High Court of Uttarakhand, a state in India, recognized the personhood rights of the River Ganga and River Yumana – a step towards recognizing the rights of nature to exist and flourish.
Read More | Press Releases & Blogs, Success StoryMar 23, 2017
Ohio and Pennsylvania residents are inundated with environmental harms, and have had enough. Join the Communities Rising tour, featuring voices from the front lines in the wave of direction action against the corporate state. Check it out here.
Read More | Community Wires, Press Releases & BlogsMar 22, 2017
Bowling Green, OH, students and residents join together to advance a Community Rights Charter Amendment for the November ballot. The measure would establish a right climate – the first measure of its kind in the state.
Read More | Community Wires, Press Releases & Blogs, Success StoryMar 10, 2017
Gig Harbor, WA, residents face over-development and environmental threats – and turn to the documentary We the People 2.0 and Community Rights for solutions.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 9, 2017
Columbus, OH, residents to deliver more than 10,000 signatures to City Hall on Friday. Residents are working to place a Community Bill of Rights banning toxic fracking waste on the November ballot.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryMar 4, 2017
Co-host David Callihan interviews CELDF’s Emelyn Lybarger and OHCRN’s Tish O’Dell, discussing Community Rights to create the change necessary to transform our oppressive structure of law and governance.
Read More | News from the GrassrootsMar 3, 2017
A review of CELDF’s book, We the People – Stories from the Community Rights Movement in the United States.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsFeb 22, 2017
When our government fails to protect us from fracking activities, we must do so ourselves.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsFeb 20, 2017
Coos County, OR, residents advance rights to stop Jordan Cove LNG export project.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsFeb 17, 2017
Driving rights forward requires our joining together in advancing cultural and legal change – it will not begin with the Supreme Court.
Read More | Press Releases & BlogsFeb 16, 2017
Where indigenous communities seek a western legal framework to protect Rights of Nature, CELDF and Bioneers are working together to support them.
Read More | News from the GrassrootsFeb 14, 2017
Oregon residents take a stand over state preemption and unsustainable fossil fuel projects.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsFeb 13, 2017
Seattle’s City Council withdraws financial ties with Wells Fargo over the Dakota Access Pipeline. Now it’s time for them to take the next step.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsFeb 12, 2017
Lancaster Co, PA, residents move to non-violent civil disobedience to protect their communities from the Atlantic Sunrise LNG pipeline.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsFeb 9, 2017
Lafayette, CO, residents show resounding support for a Climate Bill of Rights that would legalize non-violent civil disobedience to enforce their ban on fracking.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsFeb 8, 2017
Lafayette, CO, residents and Standing Rock members call for local action as Lafayette advances a Climate Bill of Rights and Protections.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsFeb 6, 2017
The City of Oberlin, OH, has a Community Bill of Rights protecting them from unsustainable energy projects – and an Oberlin resident calls on the community to enforce it.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsFeb 1, 2017
Residents of Spokane, WA, file a federal lawsuit asserting the people’s right to a healthy climate.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsFeb 1, 2017
“Raging Granny” residents in Spokane, WA, file federal lawsuit for a right to a livable climate.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJan 31, 2017
CELDF files lawsuit against the federal government, asserting federal law preempting municipal control of fossil fuel rail shipments violates residents’ constitutional right to a healthy climate and local self-government.
Read More | Community Wires, Press Releases & BlogsJan 31, 2017
CELDF files lawsuit against the federal government, asserting federal law preempting municipal control of fossil fuel rail shipments violates residents’ constitutional right to a healthy climate and local self-government.
Read More | Community Wires, Press Releases & BlogsJan 28, 2017
As prior people’s movements have taught us, when unjust government promotes unjust laws, we must promote local laws advancing rights.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJan 21, 2017
Fiction mirrors reality, and author Lee Ballinger draws the parallels between a novel set in Pennsylvania describing the ravages of fracking, and the reality in Grant Township, where residents are fighting back to protect themselves and assert their rights.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJan 20, 2017
CELDF’s Kai Huschke is featured on Mrs. Green’s World, talking about We, the People, taking control of our own government and our own communities to create what they envision for themselves and future generations.
Read More | News from the GrassrootsJan 19, 2017
Ohioans recognize the state legislature’s assault on democracy through the adoption of HB 463. Presented as a foreclosure bill, legislators encroached on citizens’ right to initiative, blocking the right to local self-government.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJan 19, 2017
The state of Colorado refuses to recognize residents’ right to protect themselves from fracking. But Lafayette City Council considers a Right to Climate ordinance legalizing nonviolent direct action to protect residents – and residents came out in droves to support the local law.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJan 18, 2017
An overwhelming number of Lafayette, CO, residents attend a City Council meeting to urge support for a Climate Bill of Rights and Protections that legalizes non-violent civil disobedience.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJan 17, 2017
Lafayette and other Colorado residents come out in force to support a Climate Bill of Rights ordinance that bans fracking.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJan 16, 2017
Lafaytte, CO, City Councilwoman Merrily Mazza co-sponsors the Lafayette Climate Bill of Rights and Protections, calling for nonviolent civil disobedience to end unjust laws under the corporate state.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJan 15, 2017
Propaganda is key to controlling our political landscape. Media literacy is crucial to our social activism – we must understand the elite’s control of mass media and how it distorts reality if we are going to stop the corporate state.
Read More | Press Releases & BlogsJan 15, 2017
The corporate state justifies obliterating local democracy through claims to be protecting the interests of residents across the state. We can no longer tolerate this tyranny.
Read More | Press Releases & BlogsJan 14, 2017
While Seneca Resources tries to force a frack wastewater injection well into Highland Twp, PA, a second time, residents and the Crystal Spring Ecosystem fight back, filing for intervenor status in a federal lawsuit.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJan 14, 2017
The Ohio legislature adopted HB 463, further stripping communities of local control. Portage County residents speak out, vowing they will press forward with a county-wide rights-based charter.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJan 13, 2017
Crystal Spring Ecosystem and residents of Highland Township, PA, filed to intervene in a lawsuit today. Parties are fighting to block Seneca Resources’ plans to site a frack wastewater injection well in the Township as a violation of their Home Rule Charter.
Read More | Community Wires, Press Releases & BlogsJan 8, 2017
The editorial board speaks out against the Ohio legislature’s stripping residents of their right to initiative.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJan 8, 2017
Our system to elect the President is undemocratic – and so are efforts to use the electoral college to block President-elect Trump on inauguration day. We need systemic change if we are going to realize a democracy.
Read More | Press Releases & BlogsJan 7, 2017
From North Dakota to Washington, D.C., people are gathering to protect water, air, and soil, and to make a stand for justice and equality. What’s next?
Read More | Press Releases & BlogsJan 6, 2017
Highland Township Supervisors in Highland, PA, abandon their efforts to illegitimately remove the Water Authority board. Highland residents are fighting to protect themselves from an injection well, while their Supervisors ally with the fracking industry.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJan 5, 2017
Community Rights Lane County is the recipient of the Eugene Springfield Solidarity Network (ESSN) 2016 Community Service Award for their “faithful and dedicated service in the fight against injustice.” Congratulations!
Read More | Community Wires, Press Releases & Blogs, Success Story