People can’t be illegal, but policies that strip them of fundamental rights can be. What can we do? Govern ourselves in the places we live,…
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.
Guest Blog: American Propaganda
Propaganda is key to controlling our political landscape. Media literacy is crucial to our social activism - we must understand the elite's control of mass…
Blog: Matters of State Concern: The Tyranny of Preemption
The corporate state justifies obliterating local democracy through claims to be protecting the interests of residents across the state. We can no longer tolerate this…
Blog: Relying on Undemocratic Mechanisms to Achieve “Democracy”
Our system to elect the President is undemocratic - and so are efforts to use the electoral college to block President-elect Trump on inauguration day.…
Blog: From Standing Rock to Million Women March and Beyond…if There is One
From North Dakota to Washington, D.C., people are gathering to protect water, air, and soil, and to make a stand for justice and equality. What's…
Blog: U.S. Ruled by 9-Headed Monarch: What We Didn’t Learn in School about the Supreme Court
Regardless of our political affiliations, the Supreme Court claims enormous power over our lives. How does this body of government have the authority to restrict…
Blog: Fracking Resistance in the UK
The British are fighting to protect their communities from fracking, as we are in the U.S. We share a common history: the claimed rights of…
Blog: The Police State Policing Police. How’s That Been Working for You?
We live in a corporatized police state. Violence to protect property and suppress people is condoned by the power elite. Rather than pleading for the…
Blog: Propertied Privilege Trumps Democracy
Upset with the Electoral College and disturbed by the implications of who was elected President? Let's look a little deeper and see what's really going…
Blog: Government Checks and Balances, and the Trump Suit
Trump ideology is poised to take over all three branches of government. And yet the fundamental and powerful principal of government's purpose - to protect…
CELDF Blog: From Absurd and Far-Fetched to Inalienable
As the predictable self-destruction of this culture of deceit and greed proceeds and accelerates, CELDF’s recommendations for change will become less "far-fetched" and "absurd." They…
Blog: The System is Fixed and We Need to Break It
The system is broken! At CELDF we hear this all the time from communities asking for our help. Yet, to our eyes, the system is…
Community Rights Paper #1: The Spirit of ‘73 and the Right to Local Self-Government
Blog: Punishing Democracy
Denton, TX, joins a growing number of communities being sued by their own government and corporate entities, to punish communities for democratically enacting bans on…
Blog: A Movement Diverted – How Corporations Neutralized Anti-Chain Store Campaigns Of the 1920s and 1930s
Early in the 20th Century, giant corporations like Woolworth’s, Sears Roebuck, J.C. Penney, Ligget, and A&P began forcing their chain stores into communities across the…
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