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Sep 10, 2019
The Editorial Board of the Toledo Blade speaks out against the legislature’s proposed bill making it more difficult for citizens to place initiatives on the ballot.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 30, 2019
Industry worked with Ohio legislators to insert language in the Ohio budget bill, attempting to make it illegal to enforce laws that recognize Rights of Nature.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 29, 2019
Investigation by Ohio citizens finds the Ohio Chamber of Commerce drafted Ohio legislation language to stop Rights of Nature enforcement.
Read More | Community Wires, News, Press ReleasesAug 22, 2019
The Ohio Farm Bureau and corporate agribusiness urge the Ohio Supreme Court to block Williams County voters from casting ballots on the people’s own initiative.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 21, 2019
Williams County, Ohio, residents partner with CELDF to fight for their right to vote in the Ohio Supreme Court.
Read More | Community Wires, Democratic Rights, News, Press ReleasesAug 20, 2019
A Williams County, Ohio, resident speaks out on protecting the rights of communities and nature through a county charter and voting.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 20, 2019
Corporate interests intent on selling Williams County, Ohio, water for profit is the issue, points out this resident.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 19, 2019
Toledo residents file pro se lawsuit defending the people’s Lake Erie Bill of Rights.
Read More | Community Wires, News, Press ReleasesAug 18, 2019
Rights of Nature is gaining traction in the U.S. and around the world – the beginning of a paradigm shift. Here’s what it looks like on the ground.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryAug 13, 2019
The City of Toledo takes a stand in court to defend the Lake Erie Bill of Rights.
Read More | Community Wires, News, Press ReleasesAug 12, 2019
Williams County, Ohio, residents are working to protect their county’s water source from privatization. Their own government is trying to stop them.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 12, 2019
More and more cities are taking action to end the commodification and exploitation of people and nature for corporate profit, using Community Rights and Rights of Nature.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryAug 3, 2019
NPR covers this story on the growing Rights of Nature movement across the U.S. and around the world. “‘[W]e have to change our environmental protection in this country and across the world, because obviously what we’re doing isn’t working.'”
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryJul 31, 2019
Recognizing legal rights of ecosystems is a growing movement gaining momentum around the world.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryJul 22, 2019
Community members in Columbus, Ohio, call out the state legislators’ shameful efforts to quash Rights of Nature in the budget bill.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJul 22, 2019
Community groups release joint statement revealing not only the Ohio legislature’s efforts to stop Rights of Nature, but also expanding protections of industrial agricultural operations.
Read More | Community Wires, News, Press ReleasesJul 18, 2019
While Rights of Nature grows in Ohio, the state legislature tries to ban its enforcement. Undeterred, Ohio communities continue advancing laws to protect ecosystems based on rights.
Read More | Community Wires, News, Press ReleasesJul 17, 2019
The Daily Show’s Michael Kosta covers Toledo residents’ work to protect Lake Erie by recognizing the Lake’s rights…and he takes the Lake’s…hand in marriage?!
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryJul 11, 2019
While efforts mount to stop Rights of Nature in Ohio, community groups press on, insisting on their right to protect the ecosystems upon which they depend.
Read More | Community Wires, News, Press ReleasesJul 10, 2019
Jun 27, 2019
As the state of Ohio attempts to undermine the will of Toledo community members, residents file a pro se complaint to uphold the Lake Erie Bill of Rights.
Read More | Community Wires, News, Press Releases, Success StoryJun 26, 2019
Community Rights and Rights of Nature continue to grow in Ohio as Williams County residents submit their citizen initiative to protect themselves from corporate water withdrawals.
Read More | Community Wires, News, Press Releases, Success StoryJun 7, 2019
As Ohioans make strides to advance Rights of Nature, the people’s own state government fights to stop them.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJun 5, 2019
A Toledo woman’s journey to discover and join the Rights of Nature movement, protecting her daughter, community, and the rights of Lake Erie.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryJun 5, 2019
Jim Hightower, national radio commentator, author, and public speaker, points to the Rights of Nature movement as a grassroots effort to protect the biosphere and challenge corporate rule.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryMay 28, 2019
Ohio Attorney General files complaint to overturn Lake Erie Bill of Rights on behalf of industry, arguing there is a right to pollute.
Read More | Community Wires, News, Press ReleasesMay 23, 2019
The story of one Toledo mom and her taking action to protect her children, her community, and the Great Lake Erie through Community Rights and Rights of Nature.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryMay 9, 2019
Today, the Ohio House adopts provisions to block communities and local governments from enforcing recognized legal rights for ecosystems.
Read More | Community Wires, News, Press ReleasesMay 8, 2019
As a judge denies Toledoans and Lake Erie intervention to defend the Lake Erie Bill of Rights against an agribusiness lawsuit to overturn it, community members file an appeal.
Read More | Community Wires, News, Press ReleasesApr 24, 2019
More than just recognizing legal rights, the growing Rights of Nature movement is a paradigm shift in the relationship between human beings and nature.
Read More | News from the Grassroots, Success StoryApr 22, 2019
Community Rights leader Markie Miller, from Toledo, Ohio, speaks to the UN General Assembly. She was invited to talk about the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, an historic law adopted by Toledoans in February.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryApr 16, 2019
The oil and gas industry tried to quash the Lake Erie Bill of Rights at the ballot. The agriculture industry is trying to quash it in court. CELDF is crowdfunding as we represent Lake Erie and Toledo community members to protect the Lake’s rights.
Read More | Community Wires, Press Releases & BlogsApr 14, 2019
The Editorial Board of the Toledo Blade calls out the irony of Houston-based BP Corporation funding the anti-Lake Erie Bill of Rights campaign, which attacked the citizen initiative as led by “outside influencers.”
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsApr 6, 2019
BP Corporation was the sole monetary donor behind the campaign to quash the Lake Erie Bill of Rights (LEBOR). The measure won with 61% of the vote.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsApr 3, 2019
Community members from Toledo, Ohio, are invited to the United Nations this month to speak about the Lake Erie Bill of Rights adopted by citizens in February.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryMar 19, 2019
Lake Erie files a motion to intervene in a lawsuit filed by industry to overturn the Lake Erie Bill of Rights.
Read More | Community Wires, Press Releases & BlogsMar 19, 2019
The Great Lake Erie files to intervene in a lawsuit brought by the agricultural industry to overturn Toledo, Ohio’s, Lake Erie Bill of Rights.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 12, 2019
Thom Hartmann interviews CELDF’s Ohio organizer Tish O’Dell on the Lake Erie Bill of Rights adopted by Toledo residents.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryMar 10, 2019
“What we really need to do is look at the (lake) as a whole, as an ecosystem that has inherent rights, that transcends the political parties of the day.”
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryMar 1, 2019
“We’ve been using the same laws for decades to try and protect Lake Erie. They’re clearly not working.” Thus, Toledo, Ohio, community members recognized the rights of Lake Erie via the ballot.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryMar 1, 2019
The Editorial Board of the Toledo Blade takes a stand for the Lake Erie Bill of Rights.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsFeb 28, 2019
Lake Erie joins growing numbers of ecosystems around the world where people and governments are recognizing their rights to exist, flourish, and evolve.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryFeb 28, 2019
Lake Erie’s legal rights are now acknowledged following Toledo, Ohio’s, special election on Tuesday.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsFeb 27, 2019
Lake Erie now has legally-enforceable rights, with the overwhelming majority of Toledo, Ohio, residents voting in support of their Lake Erie Bill of Rights citizen initiative.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryFeb 27, 2019
A groundbreaking election in Toledo, Ohio, puts this midwestern city on the map – voters recognized the rights of Lake Erie and can take legal action to protect it.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryFeb 27, 2019
Lake Erie Bill of Rights is enacted by the people of Toledo, Ohio!
Read More | Community Wires, Success StoryFeb 26, 2019
Today, Toledo, Ohio, residents are voting on recognizing the rights of Lake Erie to exist and flourish – the next step in a changing landscape where the rights of ecosystems are expanding globally.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryFeb 26, 2019
After 21/2 years working to place their Lake Erie Bill of Rights on the ballot, Toledo, Ohio, residents celebrate victory for the Great Lake.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryFeb 26, 2019
An historic vote by the people of Toledo, Ohio, marks the first time in the U.S. that the rights of an entire ecosystem are secured in law.
Read More | Community Wires, Press Releases & Blogs, Success StoryFeb 25, 2019
After decades of failed regulations to “protect” Lake Erie and several years of record-breaking algae blooms, Toledo, Ohio, residents prepare to vote on the Lake Erie Bill of Rights.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success Story