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Blog: Downsizing Nature: The Fight for Bears Ears and Beyond
Nature isn't protected in our constitution. And so ecosystems, including our national monuments, are protected - or not - at the whim of current powerbrokers....
The Trains Don’t Always Run on Time:
Yet the System Keeps Rolling, and We’re Just Collateral Damage
...lives one hour southeast of East Palestine and Tish one hour northwest. As Community Rights and Rights of Nature organizers and activists, we are well…
Building Our Children’s Trust Needs to Start With Reality
...OCT’s most solid court victory to date was achieved in Colombia, where its affiliate advanced a Rights of Nature legal theory to protect the Colombian…
Press Release: New Hampshire Community Rights Network Signs the Barnstead Declaration
...signs the Barnstead Declaration, stating their intention to provide education for a statewide call for legislative and constitutional changes recognizing the right to local self-government…
Press Release: Court Breathes New Life into Lake Erie Bill of Rights Legal Fight
Residents of Toledo, Ohio win appeal in pro se case against the State of Ohio. Lake Erie Bill of Rights lives to fight another day....
Press Release: Bowling Green Residents Tip OH Supreme Court in their Favor, Win Fight for Right to Vote
Press Release: Mahoning Board of Elections Defies Supreme Court
The Mahoning County, OH, Board of Elections blocks a duly qualified Community Bill of Rights initiative from the ballot in Youngstown. CELDF assists residents to…
Press Release: Pennsylvania Township Bans Corporate Industrial Farming
Todd Township, PA, adopts a Community Rights law prohibiting industrial factory farming to protect their community and preserve local farming operations....
OHCRN Statement: Rejecting the Munroe Falls Decision
Envision Spokane: Community Rights, not Corporate Rights
It is time to reign in corporation so that they serve people, not the other way around. In Spokane, corporations are given the same legal…
Press Release: Rights of Michindoh Aquifer Encounter First Hurdle
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…
Taking back our rights to fish
The chain that ensures an orderly society; rights have to be rooted in responsibilities....
Read the Dirt: Does Food Sovereignty Exist in the United States? Food and the Community Rights Movement
Network Coordinator to Advance the New Hampshire Community Rights Network
CELDF announces Michelle Sanborn as our new New Hampshire Community Rights Network Coordinator. Michelle led her hometown of Alexandria, NH, in adopting a Community Bill…
Blog: Black History Month, White Supremacy, and Community Rights
15 Questions that Are More Useful than “What New Regulation Should We Fight For?”
...lived in a more symbiotic and respectful way with nature for millennia? To learn more about Community Rights and Rights of Nature explore our CELDF…
Press Release: “Can You Handle the Truth?” New Book Features Voices of Dissent and Radical Solutions
...of rights of nature in several states, CELDF remains committed to its mission to protect the rights of nature and promote local democracy. ‘Can You…
ZNet Articles: Capitalism’s Missing Persons – Disappearing the Homeless, Immigrants, Native and Rural Communities, To Complete the Enclosure of the Commons
...property conveys legal rights to otherwise naturally rightless humans. Under this paradigm, rights are not conveyed to humans as a birthright. Citizenship and associated legal…
Staying Home with Josh Fox: Preemption and Property Rights
Ben Price discusses Rights of Nature and how the concepts of preemption, claimed corporate rights, and property rights challenge local democracy and ecosystem rights....
Press Release: Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection Recognizes Community Authority to Ban Frack Wastewater Injection Wells
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