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Oct 30, 2013
Sangerville, ME, resident stands behind their first-in-the-nation Community Bill of Rights infrastructure ordinance, adopted by residents in September.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsSep 18, 2013
Voters in Sangerville, ME, adopt a Community Bill of Rights ordinance to protect their municipality from a private transportation corridor.
Read More | Community Wires, Press Releases & BlogsJun 26, 2013
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.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsNov 15, 2012
Community Organizer, Gail Darrell, of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, gave a presentation on October 19, 2012 about what power citizens have and do not have to make regulations governing what corporations are permitted to do in their community.
Read More | UncategorizedJun 17, 2010
Monroe enacts local law asserting that the right of people to govern in their community is superior to legal claims that corporations are “persons” with constitutional rights.
Read More | UncategorizedFeb 28, 2009
At a special Town Meeting in February 2009, residents of Shapleigh, ME, voted to adopt an ordinance developed by CELDF to protect their water from corporate water withdrawals.
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