Portage County, OH, residents gather signatures to place a Community Rights County Charter on the November ballot to ban fracking activities. Residents are advancing rights…
Truthout: Climate Justice From the Ground Up: Six Ballot Initiatives to Watch in 2016
Local communities are using their inalienable right to govern the places where they live to take action against climate change. Truthout highlights them here, including…
The Citizen: Let’s move forward in solidarity to fight for community
Residents in New Hampshire are relieved as Northeast Energy Direct withdraws its pipeline plans. But one resident says there is no win here - simply…
The Register-Guard: Stop aerial herbicide spraying in Lane County
Herbicides are found in Lane County, OR, residents from aerial pesticide spraying. Finding their state government protecting the corporate sprayers rather than the people, Oregon…
Community Rights Lane County Street Theater
As Lane County, OR, voters advance Community Rights, efforts are underway to block them. Community Rights Lane County uses street theater to help fight for…
The Bradford Era: Highland Township Home Rule Charter group holds first meeting
Highland Township, PA's Home Rule Study Commission was voted in last month. Last night, they held their first meeting to begin consideration of becoming a…
The Jambar: Activists Ask President Obama to End Fracking in Film
A screening of Dear President Obama at Youngstown State Univ. provokes discussion on how to address fracking. It is not, says CELDF's Tish O'Dell, about…
The World: Movement growing to defend against corporate interests
State governments block communities' efforts to stop harmful activities. Corporations sue the communities and are backed by the judiciary. What's left? Says blogger Mary Geddry:…
Daily Camera: John C. Lamb: Fracking decisions show the system is rigged
Colorado resident refuses to accede to the CO Supreme Court's recent ruling that denies the people's right to govern themselves and ban fracking. He calls…
Press Release: Court Overrides Josephine County’s Democratic Decision-Making
State preemption prevails again in this week's decision from a Josephine County, OR, Circuit Court judge, overturning the people's democratically enacted ban on GMOs.
Guest Blog: Updating EPA Frack Waste Regulations: Let’s Call it What it Is
Guest blogger Tish O'Dell of Broadview Heights, OH, observes that efforts to update frack waste regulations perpetuates harm. It's time to shift from slowing down…
YES! Magazine: Faced With a Fracking Giant, This Small Town Just Legalized Civil Disobedience
Grant Township, PA, residents send one clear, united message to the fracking industry: There will be no frack wastewater injection wells in our community. And…
The Laconia Daily Sun: Plymouth Selectboard’s Support of Northern Pass Would be Oath Violation
The NHCRN urges Plymouth, NH's, Selectboard to enforce the people's Right to a Sustainable Energy Future and Community Self-Government Ordinance, adopted by residents in 2012…
Press Release: Community Rights Ramps Up in Ohio
Today residents in Meigs County and the City of Waterville, OH, launched their petition campaigns to place rights-based initiatives before voters this November. Residents are…
The Tribune: Mailbox for May 10: Local Self-Government is needd
The overturning of fracking bans in Colorado reveals corporations have more "rights" than people, and our government is here to protect those claimed "rights." Coloradans…
Thom Hartmann Program: Civil Disobedience Just Became a Civic Duty
Thom Hartmann interviews CELDF's Chad Nicholson on Grant Township's bold move to make civil disobedience a civic duty. Grant residents insist on protecting their community…
Public Herald: Pennsylvania Township First To Legalize Civil Disobedience & ‘Bad Boy’ Tim DeChristopher Has Their Back
How Grant Township, PA, residents continue to make history as they stand against PGE to stop a frack wastewater injection well - and garner support…
Common Dreams: In This Passionate Anti-Fracking Town, Civil Disobedience Just Became Protected Civic Duty
In the face of PGE threatening a fracking wastewater injection well despite a local law banning injection wells, Grant Township, PA, residents make bold move…
Press Release: Pennsylvania Township Legalizes Civil Disobedience
Grant Township, PA, residents make history as the first community in the U.S. to legalize nonviolent civil disobedience to protect their community from a fracking…
The Bradford Era: Highland Twp. supervisor’s comments lead to motion in federal case
A newly appointed Highland Twp, PA, supervisor reveals he is not supportive of the Township's Community Bill of Rights banning injection wells. In a lawsuit,…
Community Rights Paper #12: Preempting Democracy
North Carolina's HB2 is a new state law that preempts local laws that protect LGBT rights. This means that the state legislature deliberately and knowingly…
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