Community of Rights – Rights of Community enters into a dialogue with global communities about the meaning of being human and having rights. This book…
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Press Release: Citizen Initiative Removes Corporations from Election Campaigns, Caps Campaign Contributions
CELDF Blog: Worried about SCOTUS nominee Neil Gorsuch? Remember, movements don’t begin and end at the Supreme Court steps
Driving rights forward requires our joining together in advancing cultural and legal change - it will not begin with the Supreme Court....
CELDF Statement: A New Civil Rights Movement: Liberating Our Communities from Corporate Control
Press Release: Toledo Voters Enact Lake Erie Bill of Rights
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…
Press Release: Ohio Group Submits Signatures to Recognize Rights for Michindoh Aquifer
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…
OHCRN Statement: Broadview Heights, OH, County Court Decision Evokes Rallying Cry from Residents
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…
Press Release: Coos Bay Estuary Speaks Out Against FERC
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…
Statement on Efforts to Amend the U.S. Constitution following Citizens United
...First Amendment “free speech” rights were violated by federal law which limited corporate spending in elections. Following the ruling, several groups began working to propose…
Blog: The NRA, Gun Violence, and Ceiling Preemption
Blog: The Police State Policing Police. How’s That Been Working for You?
The Rights of Wild Rice
The Rights of Nature is growing. Now, a Chippewa tribe recognizes, in law, what they have known and respected for generations: manoomin has the right…
Press Release: Judge Refuses to Acknowledge Lake Erie’s Rights
In Toledo, OH, a federal judge joined a long list of enablers complicit in the destruction of the natural world by invalidating the democratically enacted…
CELDF: The Real Frackasaurus Coloring Book
Blog: A Right to Survive is Born in Denver
Wealthy interests seeking to crush human rights in Denver, Colorado, out raised local supporters of the Denver "Right to Survive" initiative 23:1. This is the…
Blog: America Denies “Personhood” to the Poor
The more property you own, the more rights you are accorded. If you're homeless, propertyless, imprisoned, or undocumented, your rights are almost nil. That's not…
Lake Erie Bill of Rights!
...Erie Bill of Rights (LEBOR) is on the February special elections ballot. Check out news coverage and the growing support for Toledo residents' pioneering efforts…
Community Rights Paper #1: The Spirit of ‘73 and the Right to Local Self-Government
July 4th: Take a 2nd Look at American Revolutionaries, Corporate Rights and State Preemption
Press Release: Las Vegas, New Mexico, Adopts Community Bill of Rights; Bans Corporations from Fracking for Shale Gas
In front of a standing-room only crowd of residents, by a vote of 3-1, the City Council, Las Vegas, New Mexico enacted the Las Vegas…
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