The Washington State Appellate Court ruled in favor of a Community Rights initiative that had been kept off the ballot by local corporate and government…
Huffington Post: ‘Supreme Court Five’ Unleash Government Of, By and For the Oligarchs
The Supreme Court makes decisions that are benefiting corporations and harming democracy, while communities are working to adopt Community Bills of Rights that codify people's…
Truthout: ALEC Forces the Question: Will Labor Really Go Local?
While ALEC and other pro-corporate entities attempt to decrease worker rights,CELDF partners in Colorado and Spokane, WA, begin working on Community Bills of Rights to…
Truthout: ALEC Forces the Question: Will Labor Really Go Local?
While ALEC and other pro-corporate entities attempt to decrease worker rights,CELDF partners in Colorado and Spokane, WA, begin working on Community Bills of Rights to…
E&E Publishing: Speaking for the trees, lawyer pushes unconventional doctrine
While the oil & gas industry protests, CELDF & allies bring forward the Rights of Nature as the basis to give ecosystems legal standing to…
WTAE Pittsburgh: Chronicle: Drilling Down (Part 6: “Whose Land is It?”)
Residents of western Pennsylvania determine to protect their community, families, and the land by banning fracking through Community Bills of Rights, and Rights of Nature…
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript: Pipeline meeting draws big crowd
Southern New Hampshire communities unite in opposition to a gas pipeline project threatening their Towns, and learn about Community Rights as a means to protect…
Sentinel & Enterprise: Pipeline no more popular in N.H.
Mason, NH, residents gather to oppose a gas pipeline threatening their community, and learn about CELDF-drafted Community Bills of Rights to stop harmful corporate activities…
Truthout: Amending Colorado’s Constitution: Do Communities Have Right to Clean Air and Water?
As voters last week banned fracking in regions from Ohio to Texas to California, Colorado citizens are meanwhile attempting to reclaim their own right to…
Press Release: First-in-the-Nation Action – Ecosystem Files for Intervention in Lawsuit to Defend Own Legal Rights to Exist and Flourish
Today, for the first time, an ecosystem in the United States filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit to defend its own right to…
Fort Bragg Advocate-News: Fracking ban success surprises supporters
Mendocino County, CA, residents voting to use Community Rights to ban fracking by an overwhelming majority in the November election, welcome the broader conversation about…
EagleFordTexas.com: Mendocino County voters ban fracking
Mendocino County, CA's, Community Bill of Rights banning fracking protects residents and local ecosystems, and challenges existing law that denies communities the right to local…
YES! Magazine: 6 Ways Americans Voted Against Corporate Power in the Most Expensive Midterm Elections Ever
CELDF-drafted Community Bills of Rights banning fracking and challenging corporate claimed "rights" in Ohio and California take center stage.
Press Release: Athens, OH, Bans Fracking and Frack Waste Water Disposal as a Violation of Rights
Athens, OH, residents overwhelmingly adopt a Community Bill of Rights banning fracking wastewater disposal, as a violation of their rights to clean air, water, and…
CentralMaine.com: East-west corridor remains a danger
Dover-Foxcroft, ME, resident urges communities to assert their rights to protect themselves from harmful corporate projects, such as the East-West Corridor, through Community Bills of…
Spokane
In 2007, after a series of Democracy Schools held in Spokane, Washington, a group of citizens led by local school teacher Brad Read built a…
The Colorado Statesman: How Congressman Jared Polis and Food and Water Watch sold out Colorado
CELDF's Thomas Linzey calls out the blatant sellout of Coloradans by a Congressman who had claimed to support communities banning fracking, and a non-profit's abandonment…
EcoWatch: Colorado Town Sues State, Gov. Hickenlooper and COGA to Protect Right to Ban Fracking
Lafayette, CO, residents file a preliminary injunction to protect their Community Bill of Rights banning fracking.
Daily Camera: Lafayette group files motion to block oil and gas industry’s lawsuit, enforce local fracking ban
With 60% of Lafayette, CO, residents adopting a Community Bill of Rights banning fracking last November, residents file a motion for a preliminary injunction against…
Press Release: Lafayette, CO, Residents Seek Injunction Against State & Oil and Gas Industry for Violating the Right of Local Self-Government
Lafayette, CO, residents seek a preliminary injunction against the State of Colorado, the Governor, and the Colorado Oil and Gas Association to enforce their Community…
Daily Camera: Opinion – Home Rule — On the ‘rights’ side of history
Boulder County, CO, resident urges support for advancing communities' rights over corporate claimed "rights" through Home Rule local self-governance.
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