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Aug 19, 2016

Press Release: Ohio Secretary of State Sides with Oil/Gas Industry Again Over Community Rights

Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted demonstrates his loyalty to the oil and gas industry by trying to block citizen initiatives. The initiatives propose county charters that ban fracking activities. Residents are fighting back, appealing Husted’s decision to the Ohio Supreme Court.

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Aug 18, 2016

Record Courier: LTE: Husted in conflict on county charter issue

A Portage County resident applauds the advancing a county charter proposal that would ban frack injection wells, and calls out Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted as he tries to quash the right to initiative for a second year. We the People, she promises, are going to continue fighting.

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Aug 10, 2016

The Gazette: Backers of Medina County charter suing Secretary of State Husted

Medina County, OH, residents take the Ohio Secretary of State and their Board of Elections to court. Government officials are attempting to block residents from placing their qualified county charter initiative banning fracking on the November ballot.

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Aug 9, 2016

Press Release: Secretary of State & Medina County Block Community’s Right to Vote

Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted blocks Medina County residents from voting on their own County Charter initiative. Residents are filing with the Ohio Supreme Court to have their measure placed on the November ballot.

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Aug 7, 2016

Cleveland.com: Keeping workers in poverty is neither just nor moral

From the Ohio Community Rights Network, Tish O’Dell takes a stand for increasing minimum wage to lift workers out of poverty, calling for the Cleveland City Council to let the people decide by placing the $15 minimum wage proposal on the ballot.

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Aug 7, 2016

The Athens Messenger: Husted opens charter dispute to outside parties

Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted – an oil and gas industry ally – will decide whether or not to place three rights-based county charter measures on the November ballot. Residents are prepared to appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court

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Aug 2, 2016

Fusion: This environmental nightmare is ‘raping’ towns, and citizens have one last chance to stop it

As fracking sweeps the nation, communities are using local initiatives to protect themselves – while industry spews propaganda and spends huge sums to stop them.

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Aug 1, 2016

Yes! Magazine: Two Towns Battle Colorado for Freedom to Ban Fracking

Growing numbers of communities are joining together to move Community Rights to the state level–not just to protect against fracking, but myriad other harms facing We the People in Colorado, Ohio, Oregon, and beyond.

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Jul 27, 2016

The Athens News: Charter petition protest skips local court, will go to Ohio Sec. of State

Athens County, OH, residents protest the Board of Elections attempt to keep their rights-based County Charter initiative off the November ballot.

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Jul 26, 2016

WOUB Digital: Athens Charter Group Protests Election Board Decision

Residents of Athens County submit their protest against the County Board of Elections’ refusal to place their duly qualified County Charter on the November ballot.

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Jul 26, 2016

Blog: 2016 – The Year Democracy Died?

While we may expect to see powerbrokers in both major political parties drown out grassroots voices, it’s happening at the local level as well. Local government officials and the judiciary act as corporate allies, killing the right to initiative across the U.S.

Press Release: Athens County Residents Fight for Right to Initiative

Athens County, OH, residents worked with CELDF to file a protest today against their Board of Elections. The Board blocked their qualified County Charter initiative banning fracking wastewater injection wells from the November ballot.

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Jul 18, 2016

Akron Beacon Journal: Letter to the Editor – Give power to local residents

Says Portage County, OH, resident: The people who live in a community should make the governing decisions impacting that community. Portage County residents are advancing a County Charter recognizing that right, and protecting against fracking activities.

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Jul 18, 2016

$ThisWeek Community News: Anti-fracking group coming to town$

ThisWeek Community News: Anti-fracking group coming to town

The Ohio Community Rights Network comes to Johnstown, OH. Member of the Network will share with residents rights-based strategies to protect communities – including their rights to local self-government, clean air and water, and banning fracking as a violation of rights.

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Jul 17, 2016

$The Athens News: Anti-fracking group leaning toward appeal of local Board of Elections rejection of petitions$

The Athens News: Anti-fracking group leaning toward appeal of local Board of Elections rejection of petitions

Athens County, OH, residents face oil and gas industry allies blocking their rights-based County Charter measure from the November ballot, despite meeting initiative requirements. Supporters will challenge the decision, asserting their right to citizen initiative.

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Jul 17, 2016

The Athens Messenger: Charter group claims election board member has conflict of interests

Ohio Gas Association President JImmy Stewart sees no conflict of interest in his appointment to the Meigs County Board of Elections, as he leads the charge to block a rights-based County Charter measure banning fracking. Residents disagree; consider next steps.

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Jul 15, 2016

OHCRN Statement: County Boards of Elections Attempt to Stifle Democracy: Meigs, Athens and Medina Counties

Efforts in Ohio by local Boards of Elections to block rights-based County Charter initiatives banning fracking fail to disempower We the People.

The Athens Messenger: Charter committee weighs options for challenging election board decision

Athens County, OH, residents intend to challenge the Board of Elections vote to keep their County Charter initiative off the November ballot. Residents are advancing the right to local self-government, including banning fracking activities, to protect themselves from harm.

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Jul 10, 2016

$The Athens Messenger: The only ‘fringe’ elements are those advocating fracking$

The Athens Messenger: The only ‘fringe’ elements are those advocating fracking

An Athens County, OH, resident calls out an oil & gas industry representative who attempted to belittle Community Rights supporters as they spoke out against fracking harms.

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Jul 10, 2016

The Athens Messenger: Election board says proposed Athens County charter not valid

The Athens County, OH, Board of Elections exerts power of residents, refusing to certify their Community Rights Charter initiative banning fracking – despite having the required number of signatures.

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Jul 10, 2016

The Record Courier: Charter forces push ballot bid

Portage County, OH, residents have found no remedy in their local or state government as they are inundated with frack wastewater injection wells. They are advancing a Community Rights Charter initiative for the November ballot to ban the wells.

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Jul 9, 2016

The Post: Government should protect rights, safety and happiness

In Medina County, OH, residents insist on their right to alter their government when their representatives refuse to protect them from harm. Medina County residents are advancing a rights-based County Charter initiative banning fracking activities as a violation of rights.

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Jul 7, 2016

The Record-Courier: KEC board backs county charter bid

The Kent Environmental Council endorses the Portage Community Rights Group’s rights-based county charter initiative. The county charter would ban frack wastewater injection wells as a violation of the right to clean water.

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Jul 1, 2016

$The Athens Messenger: Petitions submitted for second attempt to place anti-fracking law on county ballot$

The Athens Messenger: Petitions submitted for second attempt to place anti-fracking law on county ballot

Athens County, OH, residents submit signatures to place a Community Rights county charter on the November ballot that would maintain the current governing structure while banning fracking as a violation of rights.

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Jun 30, 2016

Akron Beacon Journal: Medina County group files 6,578 signatures seeking November vote on community bill of rights

In Medina County, OH, residents gather over 6,500 signatures, qualifying for the November ballot a Community Rights County Charter banning fracking activities. They join six other Ohio cities and counties advancing similar measures.

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Jun 30, 2016

Press Release: Ohioans Determined to Stop Fracking through Asserting Rights

Last summer, the corporate state led efforts to keep Ohioans from voting on fracking bans. Ohio communities are back in action, refusing to be deterred, and committed to protecting their communities. Five ballot measures are submitted this week for November.

Jun 28, 2016

$The Vindicator: An anti-fracking charter-amendment proposal could be in front of Youngstown voters for a sixth time$

The Vindicator: An anti-fracking charter-amendment proposal could be in front of Youngstown voters for a sixth time

Youngstown, OH, residents show their grit and commitment as they advance their Community Bill of Rights banning fracking to the ballot for a vote by the people.

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Jun 27, 2016

$WKBN 27: Frackfree group to put fracking ban on Youngstown ballot again$

WKBN 27: Frackfree group to put fracking ban on Youngstown ballot again

Youngstown, OH, residents assert their right to initiative as they advance a rights-based initiative to ban fracking as a violation of their right to clean water and a healthy environment. Residents gathered double the required number of signatures.

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Jun 27, 2016

Akron Beacon Journal: Youngstown group to submit community bill of rights petitions

Determined to protect their community and safeguard their water from fracking, Youngstown, OH, residents submit well-over the required number of signatures for a Community Bill of Rights fracking ban initiative. Voters will cast their ballots in November.

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Jun 24, 2016

The Business Journal: Group to Place Anti-Fracking Amendment on Ballot

Youngstown, OH, residents turn in signatures to place their charter amendment on the ballot in November. The measure establishes the rights of residents to clean air and water, the right to local community self-government, and bans fracking as a violation of those rights.

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Jun 23, 2016

The Crescent-News: OEPA hosts meeting on proposed Defiance compressor station

Several communities in three counties face Rover pipelines and a compressor station north of Defiance, OH. Residents gathered at a OEPA hearing to make clear they are unwilling to accept harm, and urged their communities to assert their rights to protect themselves.

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Jun 5, 2016

Akron Beacon Journal: Portage County group seeking signatures on petition calling for community bill of rights vote

Portage County, OH, residents gather signatures to place a Community Rights County Charter on the November ballot to ban fracking activities. Residents are advancing rights to protect themselves from the oil and gas industry.

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Jun 4, 2016

Truthout: Climate Justice From the Ground Up: Six Ballot Initiatives to Watch in 2016

Local communities are using their inalienable right to govern the places where they live to take action against climate change. Truthout highlights them here, including CELDF partners in Columbus, OH; Grant Township, PA; and Colorado.

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May 25, 2016

The Jambar: Activists Ask President Obama to End Fracking in Film

A screening of Dear President Obama at Youngstown State Univ. provokes discussion on how to address fracking. It is not, says CELDF’s Tish O’Dell, about pleading with elected officials. It’s about the right to make governing decisions in the places we live.

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May 18, 2016

Guest Blog: Updating EPA Frack Waste Regulations: Let’s Call it What it Is

Guest blogger Tish O’Dell of Broadview Heights, OH, observes that efforts to update frack waste regulations perpetuates harm. It’s time to shift from slowing down the destruction of our communities and ecosystems, to stopping it.

Press Release: Community Rights Ramps Up in Ohio

Today residents in Meigs County and the City of Waterville, OH, launched their petition campaigns to place rights-based initiatives before voters this November. Residents are organizing to stop fracking projects and protect rights to clean air and water.

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Apr 9, 2016

The Post: Friedrick’s recent column had some incorrect information

Supporters of Medina County, OH’s, Community Rights County Charter initiative call out fear tactics of anti-Community Rights government officials.

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Apr 9, 2016

The Post: Medina County: We have the right to clean air, water, soil

When a county commissioner in Medina County, OH, steers residents away from protecting their community from fracking infrastructure projects through a rights-based county charter, residents call him out in this letter-to-the-editor.

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Mar 20, 2016

$Cleveland.com: Pro-fracking writer ignored essential dangers of drilling: Tish O’Dell, Mothers Against Drilling in Our Neighborhoods$

Cleveland.com: Pro-fracking writer ignored essential dangers of drilling: Tish O’Dell, Mothers Against Drilling in Our Neighborhoods

Ohio resident Tish O’Dell counters the oil and gas industry’s insistence that fracking is safe. Regardless, communities have the right to determine what happens in the places where they live, and protect their health, safety, and welfare.

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Mar 18, 2016

Akron Beacon Journal: Medina, Portage counties seek community bill of rights votes

Medina and Portage Counties in Ohio begin gathering signatures to place Community Rights County Charters on the November ballot. Residents face fracking infrastructure projects, including pipelines and injection wells, and are advancing rights to protect themselves.

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Mar 14, 2016

Press Release: Ohio Residents Launch Community Rights Petition Campaigns throughout the State on Primary Day

Five Ohio counties and cities launch Community Bills of Rights campaigns to protect themselves from fracking activities. Residents are aiming for the November 2016 ballot.

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Mar 10, 2016

The Athens News: County group plans to bring charter proposal back in November

Athens County, OH, residents advance a Community Rights County Charter banning frack wastewater injection wells for the November ballot.

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Feb 18, 2016

Ohio Street Theater Production: The People vs. the Corporate State

The Ohio Community Rights Network partners with Medina County residents to stage The People vs. the Corporate State. Check out the David vs. Goliath production.

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Feb 17, 2016

The Medina-Gazette: Public airs concerns over NEXUS station with EPA

The Ohio Community Rights Network presented a street theater production prior to the Ohio EPA’s public meeting on the proposed compressor station, which is part of the NEXUS Gas Transmission project

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Feb 16, 2016

Cleveland.com: No new oil, gas well applications in Broadview Heights, despite court case supporting drillers

Broadview Heights, OH, residents’ strong stand to block new drilling wells keeps fracking out and oil and gas companies away.

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Jan 13, 2016

Gazette: Broadview Hts.’ citizens group MADION continues its gas-oil well fight in court

Broadview Heights, OH, residents’ CELDF attorney presents oral arguments on the people’s inalienable right to protect their communities from fracking over the corporate claimed “right” to frack.

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Jan 11, 2016

$The Athens News: Appeals court in fracking case should stand up for basic rights$

The Athens News: Appeals court in fracking case should stand up for basic rights

A class action lawsuit filed by CELDF on behalf of Broadview Heights residents to uphold their inalienable right to local self-government – including their right to protect clean air and pure water – is heard last week by a Court of Appeals in Ohio.

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Dec 19, 2015

The Leap: Can Local Law Enforcement Be Democratized By A People’s Movement?

As communities move beyond slowing down unwanted fossil fuel projects such as pipelines, and begin using local community self-governance to stop them, they are bumping into their own local agencies acting against them. Medina County, OH, and other communities across the country turn to Community Rights to protect themselves and create the communities they envision.

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Dec 11, 2015

Community Rights Papers #8: A Touch of Class

While the state and the oil and gas industry work together to force fracking activities into communities, those same communities are working to reclaim their right to local, community self-government, just as the American Revolutionaries did against the British state in the 1700s.

The BG News: Environmental lawyer calls for revolt against corporations

Rather than protecting people’s rights to local self-government and clean air and water, our legal and governing structures are designed to protect corporations as they cause harms to our communities. What can we do? Revolt.

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Press Release: Ohio Secretary of State Sides with Oil/Gas Industry Again Over Community Rights

Record Courier: LTE: Husted in conflict on county charter issue

The Gazette: Backers of Medina County charter suing Secretary of State Husted

Press Release: Secretary of State & Medina County Block Community’s Right to Vote

Cleveland.com: Keeping workers in poverty is neither just nor moral

The Athens Messenger: Husted opens charter dispute to outside parties

Fusion: This environmental nightmare is ‘raping’ towns, and citizens have one last chance to stop it

Yes! Magazine: Two Towns Battle Colorado for Freedom to Ban Fracking

The Athens News: Charter petition protest skips local court, will go to Ohio Sec. of State

WOUB Digital: Athens Charter Group Protests Election Board Decision

Blog: 2016 – The Year Democracy Died?

Press Release: Athens County Residents Fight for Right to Initiative

Akron Beacon Journal: Letter to the Editor – Give power to local residents

ThisWeek Community News: Anti-fracking group coming to town

The Athens News: Anti-fracking group leaning toward appeal of local Board of Elections rejection of petitions

The Athens Messenger: Charter group claims election board member has conflict of interests

OHCRN Statement: County Boards of Elections Attempt to Stifle Democracy: Meigs, Athens and Medina Counties

The Athens Messenger: Charter committee weighs options for challenging election board decision

The Athens Messenger: The only ‘fringe’ elements are those advocating fracking

The Athens Messenger: Election board says proposed Athens County charter not valid

The Record Courier: Charter forces push ballot bid

The Post: Government should protect rights, safety and happiness

The Record-Courier: KEC board backs county charter bid

The Athens Messenger: Petitions submitted for second attempt to place anti-fracking law on county ballot

Akron Beacon Journal: Medina County group files 6,578 signatures seeking November vote on community bill of rights

Press Release: Ohioans Determined to Stop Fracking through Asserting Rights

The Vindicator: An anti-fracking charter-amendment proposal could be in front of Youngstown voters for a sixth time

WKBN 27: Frackfree group to put fracking ban on Youngstown ballot again

Akron Beacon Journal: Youngstown group to submit community bill of rights petitions

The Business Journal: Group to Place Anti-Fracking Amendment on Ballot

The Crescent-News: OEPA hosts meeting on proposed Defiance compressor station

Akron Beacon Journal: Portage County group seeking signatures on petition calling for community bill of rights vote

Truthout: Climate Justice From the Ground Up: Six Ballot Initiatives to Watch in 2016

The Jambar: Activists Ask President Obama to End Fracking in Film

Guest Blog: Updating EPA Frack Waste Regulations: Let’s Call it What it Is

Press Release: Community Rights Ramps Up in Ohio

The Post: Friedrick’s recent column had some incorrect information

The Post: Medina County: We have the right to clean air, water, soil

Cleveland.com: Pro-fracking writer ignored essential dangers of drilling: Tish O’Dell, Mothers Against Drilling in Our Neighborhoods

Akron Beacon Journal: Medina, Portage counties seek community bill of rights votes

Press Release: Ohio Residents Launch Community Rights Petition Campaigns throughout the State on Primary Day

The Athens News: County group plans to bring charter proposal back in November

Ohio Street Theater Production: The People vs. the Corporate State

The Medina-Gazette: Public airs concerns over NEXUS station with EPA

Cleveland.com: No new oil, gas well applications in Broadview Heights, despite court case supporting drillers

Gazette: Broadview Hts.’ citizens group MADION continues its gas-oil well fight in court

The Athens News: Appeals court in fracking case should stand up for basic rights

The Leap: Can Local Law Enforcement Be Democratized By A People’s Movement?

Community Rights Papers #8: A Touch of Class

The BG News: Environmental lawyer calls for revolt against corporations

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