From ThinkProgress on the efforts of the oil and gas industry to stop Community Rights and Rights of Nature, the courageous communities who refuse to…
New Hampshire Public Radio: Plymouth Is Latest To Try Blocking Big Energy Projects With Local Ordinance
Plymouth, NH, residents are among the growing numbers of New Hampshire communities using Community Rights to stop projects harmful to their health, safety, and welfare.
Columbus Free Press: Overturning Ohio HB 463 – Dismantling a corporate state and building something new
CELDF stands by Ohio residents. Together, the people succeeded in overturning unjust law, and today they are ramping up their efforts to advance democratic and…
The Register-Guard: Don’t delay aerial spray ballot issue discussion
Lane County, OR, residents urge their county commissioners to place Community Rights measures on the ballot for a vote by the people. Residents are taking…
Press Release: Plymouth, NH, Voters Adopt Community Rights Sustainable Energy Future Ordinance
Plymouth, NH, voters overwhelmingly adopt a rights-based ordinance banning unsustainable energy projects and protecting their right to a sustainable energy future. The measure bans the…
New Hampshire Rep. Ellen Read on adopting a Community Rights state constitutional amendment
As the New Hampshire Community Rights state constitutional amendment moves forward to a legislative committee, Representative Ellen Read voices her support for the amendment. Listen…
Union Leader: Plymouth residents take aim at Northern Pass with new ordinance
Facing a massive electrical power corridor cutting through New Hampshire, the people of Plymouth ban the project in their Town using Community Rights. Next step:…
The Laconia Daily Sun: Let’s not wait for the Legislature’s permission to self-govern
A former Selectperson from Ashland, NH, writes this LTE on the NH Community Rights state constitutional amendment. We are born with the inalienable right to…
Press Release: New Hampshire Community Rights Amendment Advances to Public Committee Hearing
New Hampshire residents and the NHCRN advance a Community Rights state constitutional amendment to the legislative committee hearing.
Non-Profit Quarterly: Nonprofit Legal Firm Ordered to Pay for its Defense of Anti-Fracking City Ordinance
Sanctioning public interest attorneys for defending Grant Township, PA's, ban on fracking wastewater injection wells is the next step in efforts to stop communities from…
Urgent Ohio Democracy Alert from the OHCRN
With House Joint Resolution 5 (HJR5), the Ohio legislature is sabotaging the people's democratic rights.
Desmog: Court Orders Nonprofit Law Firm to Pay $52,000 to Oil and Gas Company for Defending Local Fracking Waste Ban
Community Rights is growing, and this is the corporate state's punitive response.
The Athens News: City Council commits to codifying citizen-OKed laws, including anti-fracking, pot de-penalization
Protecting water means enforcing their Community Bill of Rights fracking ban, says Athens, OH, residents. The rights-based law was adopted overwhelmingly by residents in 2014.
Rolling Stone: The Rights of Nature Movement Goes on Trial
The people of Grant Township, PA, are fiercely defending their right to clean air and water. A federal judge sanctions two attorneys for standing with…
Press Release: Federal Court Sanctions Lawyers for Defending Community’s Right to Say “No” to Frack Wastewater Injection Wells
The corporate state's judiciary punishes attorneys defending Grant Township, PA, residents against the oil and gas industry by imposing sanctions.
Daily Camera: Lafayette to meet with legal fund on fracking ban defense, over counsel’s concerns
Lafayette, CO, city council looks to defend its Right to Climate ordinance banning fracking activities, holding an open forum with CELDF on strategies to do…
The Guardian: New Zealand gives Mount Taranaki same legal rights as a person
As part of the growing Rights of Nature movement, this sacred mountain in New Zealand is now recognized as having rights.
Fosters.com: We the people shall rule
People have always risen up to right the wrongs inflicted by the ruling elite. That time has come again, and the people of New Hampshire…
Press Release: First Rights of Nature Easement Established in Hawaii
As part of the growing Rights of Nature movement, the first conservation easement in Hawaii recognizing the Rights of Nature now protects 8 acres of…
The Pulse: Do Streams Have Rights?
The Rights of Nature is growing, from concept to practice. While regulations don't protect nature or people, rights do.
The New Political: Here’s how the Ohio Community Rights Network is reforming the Ohio Constitution
CELDF, the Ohio Community Rights Network, and Athens County, OH, residents are partnering together to advance democratic and environmental rights to all Ohio residents.
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