2024 Year-end Newsletter: Living in Nature
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Dec 14, 2021
Industrial gold mining has been shown to devastate local communities, including through the depletion of water tables and poisoning of water systems.
Read More | Press ReleasesDec 26, 2020
Virginia joins the growing network of state Community Rights Networks.
Read More | Blogs, Community Rights, News, Rights of NatureJul 14, 2020
The Network has been initiated by residents who worked to protect Buckingham County, Virginia from a proposed large-scale fracked gas compressor station for the now-defeated Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
Read More | Community Wires, Press Releases & BlogsJan 9, 2020
Progressives may find Democratic wins favorable. But as long as Dillon’s Rule (legalized state preemption) stops local community self-government from heightening environmental and economic protections, no political party is going to help.
Read More | Press Releases & BlogsNov 13, 2019
Regardless of political gains by Democrats in Virginia, residents still do not have authority to govern themselves in their own communities. Here’s why – and what communities can do about it.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots