Announcing CELDF's Proposed Rights of Nature Principles
A new system of law based on respect for Nature and the…
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Mar 7, 2015
New Mexico
Dec 10, 2014
Written Word, Spoken Word: Team Mora Kicks Judge Browning’s Bootie (In His Own Goddamned Courtroom)
Blogger Frances Madeson reveals Judge Browning’s pained granting of intervenor status to the Mora Land Grant and Jacobo Pacheco in the SWEPI lawsuit seeking to overturn Mora’s Community Bill of Rights banning all hydrocarbon extraction.
Read More | UncategorizedNov 29, 2014
Written Word, Spoken Word: 14,392 Reasons for Mora County to Stand Its Ground On the Anti-Fracking Ordinance
Blogger Frances Madeson reveals the number of gas leases in Mora County, making their Community Bill of Rights banning fracking all the more urgent.
Read More | UncategorizedNov 13, 2014
Written Word, Spoken Word: SWEPI v. Mora County: The Purple Haze of U.S. Judge James Oren Browning
Blogger Frances Madeson shares the surreal proceedings in the oral arguments of the SWEPI v. Mora County, NM, case. SWEPI is suing to overturn Mora County’s Community Water Rights and Local Self-Governance Ordinance.
Read More | UncategorizedJun 10, 2014
People to People Blog: Why Mora County New Mexico is Fighting Frackers for Your Rights, too
Global Exchange’s Kiara Collins explores Mora County, NM’s, fight for all communities’ rights.
Read More | UncategorizedMay 15, 2014
Mora County Legal Defense Fund
The Mora County Legal Defense Fund was formed to protect Mora’s Community Rights – including their right to clean air and water, a healthy environment, and local self-governance – as they face a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, which claims a constitutional right to frack against the will of the people of Mora.
Read More | UncategorizedMar 20, 2014
Statement of County Commissioner John Olivas, Chairman, Mora County, New Mexico Board of Commissioners
Mora County, NM, Commission Chairman John Olivas calls on communities across the U.S. to support the people of Mora County as they face corporate assaults to have their Community Bill of Rights Ordinance banning fracking overturned. Only through standing together, he says, can we recreate “we the people,” and begin to build the communities we envision.
Read More | UncategorizedDec 5, 2013
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 article from the Center for Effective Government on CELDF’s work in providing support to communities through Community Rights.
Read More | UncategorizedApr 29, 2013
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.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsOct 30, 2012
Why do we need a local bill of rights?
Democracy School attendee Priscilla Stuckey on “Why do we need a local bill of rights?”
Read More | UncategorizedOct 2, 2012
View the trailer for “Rooted Lands – Tierras Arraigadas”
Chronicling community rights organizing in New Mexico to protect residents and the land.
Read More | UncategorizedApr 15, 2012
CELDF Press Release: Las Vegas, New Mexico, Adopts Community Bill of Rights; Bans Corporations from Fracking for Shale Gas
In front of a standing-room only crowd of residents, by a vote of 3-1, the City Council, Las Vegas, New Mexico enacted the Las Vegas Community Water Rights and Local Self-Government Ordinance.
Read More | News from the GrassrootsApr 3, 2012
KUNM: Las Vegas Passes Ban on Drilling
Sidsel Overgaard of KUNM New Mexico’s Community Powered Public Radio reports on Las Vegas, New Mexico’s historic action to pass a Community Bill of Rights ordinance to protect their water and prohibit shale gas drilling and fracking.
Read More | UncategorizedApr 3, 2012
Las Vegas Optic: Anti-fracking law adopted
The Las Vegas, NM, City Council adopted a Community Bill of Rights ordinance establishing rights to clean water and to local self-government, banning fracking as a violation of those rights. Residents filled council chambers in support of the measure.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryMar 29, 2012
Las Vegas Optic: Support for city’s ‘rights’ ordinance
Community members in Las Vegas, NM, urge support for their Las Vegas Community Bill of Rights and Local Self-Government Ordinance, which bans fracking.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsSep 11, 2011