We are witnessing tremendous gains for the Rights of Nature movement and an expansion of awareness about the injustices perpetrated by highly centralized state government…
Newsletter: Washington Update
The WACRN is now working to operationalize the network to be that change agent it set out to be nearly 10 years ago.
PA Constitutional Change
House Bill 1716 is a proposed amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution. It would secure the right of self-government to every community in Pennsylvania.
Metallic Mining and Freedom from Toxic Trespass
The Virginia Community Rights Network has finalized text for an Ordinance Requiring an Assessment of the Compatibility of Metallic Mining with the Right to Freedom…
New Hampshire Municipal Outreach Campaign
As a means to gain feedback from local elected officials, the NHCRN launched a municipal outreach campaign this September.
Challenges to Implementing Rights of Nature in the U.S
The intentional conflation of privileged property of this sort with personal property, the product of individual labor and creativity, perpetuates distrust of Rights of Nature.
Newsletter: Oregon Update
Justice continues to be denied in Oregon. Community rights efforts in Lane and Lincoln counties have, quite wrongly, found themselves mired in the Oregon court…
Newsletter: Ohio Update
Ohio communities have worked hard over the past eight years, proposing charter amendments and ordinances recognizing local self-governance and rights of nature.
Community Rights Lane County Issues Values Statement
Community Rights Lane County educates and mobilizes citizens about their rights to local community self-governance. They believe decisions affecting communities must be made by community…
Honor The Treaties in Your Community
The destruction, privatization and incorporation of settler municipalities on these landscapes and waterways has violated the treaties. It’s time for municipalities to actually recognize and…
A Tribute to Gail Mills
Gail Mills of Nottingham, NH, passed away this month, having paid forward a legacy of community activism that inspired local activists across the country.
Newsletter: Ohio Update
Ohio communities over the past decade have worked hard to protect ecosystems and their communities from various harmful projects. They did the work of asserting…
Newsletter: New England Update
Residents are blowing the whistle on large-scale industrial solar arrays that require the cutting of old-growth forests in favor of destructive greenwashing.
Newsletter: Pacific Northwest Updates
Invisible Hand, the rebirth of the WACRN, and updates from the West Coast.
Newsletter: Building a Movement in Pennsylvania
Community Rights organizing began in Pennsylvania over two decades ago. Since then, dozens of local laws have been adopted that ban everything from factory farms,…
Newsletter: Asheville Climate Bill of Rights Begins Signature Gathering
A new ordinance seeks to place a Climate Bill of Rights on the 2022 ballot, which explicitly challenges North Carolina's infamous state preemption scheme and…
Newsletter: Non-Linear Change
As we organize to make change while environmental and racial injustice run rampant, and as drought and a poisonous status quo threaten the conditions for…
Newsletter: Updates on Defunding Violence
The Defunding Violence Ordinance has been circulating in activist communities across the country. It continues to be a living document that both informs and is…
Just Compensation
The courts of the empire may rely on self-referential legalisms to declare that the original indigenous inhabitants never had legal claim to ownership of the…
Guest Blog: Critical Race Theory
Put another way, critical race theory illuminates our historical record despite centuries-long efforts to whitewash it. White nationalists present “alternative facts” conducing to a zero-sum…
Guest Blog: How Qualified Immunity Subverts the Rule of Law
This guest submission was originally given as a graduation address on police reform. The author argues, our informed consent is what legitimizes government. And so…
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