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Aug 15, 2015
MEDINA, Ohio – The fight isn’t over for Medina County homeowners opposed to the Nexus pipeline and pushing for a ban on fracking in the county.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 14, 2015
COLUMBUS, OH: The Ohio Secretary of State, Jon Husted, declared that the citizens of Medina, Fulton, and Athens Counties may not vote on their own county charter initiatives, despite meeting requirements to place those initiatives on the November ballot.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 14, 2015
Grass-roots groups in Medina and two other counties intend to keep fighting Ohio’s gas-and-oil industry, after Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted invalidated ballot proposals in those counties.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 14, 2015
Residents of three counties won’t be voting this November on whether to allow fracking, based on a ruling Thursday by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted.
Read More | News from the GrassrootsAug 14, 2015
COLUMBUS, OH: The Ohio Secretary of State, Jon Husted, declared that the citizens of Medina, Fulton, and Athens Counties may not vote on their own county charter initiatives, despite meeting requirements to place those initiatives on the November ballot.
Read More | Community WiresAug 13, 2015
Community bill of rights in charter proposal would have banned some fracking-related activities
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 13, 2015
MEIGS COUNTY, OH: Frustrated by the efforts of the Meigs County Commissioners to keep residents’ community rights county charter initiative off the November ballot, the Meigs County Home Rule Committee (MCHRC) has sued the Commissioners to force the measure on to the ballot. On July 20, they filed a lawsuit in the Fourth District Court of Appeals in Chillicothe, claiming the Commissioners have illegally refused to take action on the measure in order to block a vote by the people.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 12, 2015
Learn the latest news on Spokane, WA’s, Worker Bill of Rights, read Community Rights Paper #5 on Citizens United, and join us for the launching of the Ohio Community Rights Workshop.
Read More | News from the GrassrootsAug 12, 2015
MEIGS COUNTY, OH: Frustrated by the efforts of the Meigs County Commissioners to keep residents’ community rights county charter initiative off the November ballot, the Meigs County Home Rule Committee (MCHRC) has sued the Commissioners to force the measure on to the ballot.
Read More | Community WiresAug 9, 2015
The Ohio Secretary of State’s Office is expected to make a decision by this Thursday on whether a proposed charter government for Athens County will go on the November ballot.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJun 13, 2015
A video on the work of OHCRN in growing Community Rights to help protect all Ohioans from harmful activities threatening clean air, pure water, and the right to democratic, local self-governance.
Read More | UncategorizedJun 13, 2015
A video on the work of OHCRN in growing Community Rights to help protect all Ohioans from harmful activities threatening clean air, pure water, and the right to democratic, local self-governance.
Read More | UncategorizedApr 23, 2015
As Athens County, OH, residents are subjected to increasing quantities of fracking wastewater imported into their communities, they are finding no remedy in their state government. It’s time for residents to stand together to protect their health, safety, and welfare.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 15, 2015
While a County Court elevates corporate claimed “rights” over community rights in Broadview Heights, OH, residents assert the decision is illegitimate and determine to continue on.
Read More | UncategorizedFeb 18, 2015
Feb 17, 2015
Kent, OH, law director attempts to preempt citizens’ right to initiative by changing the city’s Charter – giving him the authority to veto proposed initiatives at his discretion.
Read More | Community WiresNov 12, 2014
Growing numbers of communities – including Athens, OH, and Mendocino County, CA – banned fracking by asserting their inalienable right to make governing decisions, and elevating community rights above corporate claimed “rights” when they harm a community.
Read More | UncategorizedNov 5, 2014
Community Bills of Rights advance on Election Day 2014, with a record number of initiatives on the ballot, and a growing number of communities determined to drive those rights forward.
Read More | UncategorizedNov 5, 2014
CELDF-drafted Community Bills of Rights banning fracking and challenging corporate claimed “rights” in Ohio and California take center stage.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryNov 5, 2014
Athens, OH, residents overwhelmingly adopt a Community Bill of Rights banning fracking wastewater disposal, as a violation of their rights to clean air, water, and the right to local self-government.
Read More | Community Wires, Press Releases & BlogsNov 7, 2013
On Election Day, voters in an Ohio and a Colorado community enacted Community Bills of Rights to
secure the right to local self-government and to protect the right to clean air, pure water, and the rights
of ecosystems to exist and flourish. By a margin of 70.56%, voters in Oberlin, OH, approved their
citizen-initiated ordinance. In Lafayette, CO, where citizens petitioned to amend their city home rule
charter, the winning margin was 60.16%.
Nov 6, 2013
Lafayette, CO, and Oberlin, OH, residents ban fracking as a violation of rights with strong majority wins.
Read More | Community Wires, Press Releases & BlogsSep 12, 2013
“It’s Already Been Decided? Who Decided That?”
Read More | UncategorizedJul 8, 2013
Updates and news from CELDF communities across the country.
Read More | UncategorizedNov 6, 2012
Today, the residents of Broadview Heights banned fracking from within the City limits through a Community Bill of Rights Charter Amendment. The amendment established the right to clean air and water, and the right to local self-government, banning fracking as a violation of those rights.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StorySep 8, 2012
Two activists are involved in grass-roots campaigns … pushing [for] what’s called limited home rule in Ohio townships and a community bill of rights in cities and villages, both aimed at increased protection for air, water, health, property values and public safety.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 6, 2012
The home rule fight over natural gas drilling has come to Ohio.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsAug 2, 2012
The new year arrived in Youngstown, Ohio, with earthquakes that appear to be tied fracking to wastewater wells and activists standing in the cold protesting. By some lights the poorest community in America, Youngstown had been taking in wastewater from fracking wells in Pennsylvania, which companies then injected back into the ground.
Read More | UncategorizedDec 14, 2010
Plain Township, Ohio is considering adoption of a local measure modeled on the Pittsburgh / Buffalo gas drilling ordinance.
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