Highland Township, PA's, Water Authority files to intervene in a federal lawsuit to protect the community's right to water. Township Supervisors are attempting to give…
Mint Press News: PA Dept. of Environmental Protection Sues Towns Over Fracking Ban
Residents of Grant and Highland Townships, PA, continue the fight to protect themselves from a frack wastewater injection well. Joining the fight against them: the…
The Indiana Gazette: Grant Twp, PA, residents plan local action to protect their water from injection well
Community rights advocates in Grant Township, PA, continue their stand to protect their water from a frack wastewater injection well.
The Christian Science Monitor: An Indian court says glaciers and rivers are ‘living entities.’ Could the same approach work in the US?
From India, Ecuador, and Bolivia, to communities in the U.S., growing numbers of people are advancing nature's rights and protecting ecosystems.
Pipeline foes talk protest
More than 50 people attend the Communities Rising Tour in Medina County, OH, discussing what needs to happen to protect themselves from the proposed Nexus…
Grass-roots groups prepare to dig in deeper against Nexus pipeline
The OH/PA Communities Rising Tour stops in Medina County, OH, where residents face the Nexus pipeline and are organizing using Community Rights to stop it.
Communities take action when their government fails them: Community Rights in PA/OH
Environmental activists, leaders, and residents are touring Pennsylvania and Ohio, sharing what they are doing in the face of the corporate state attempting to force…
For economic and environmental sustainability, we need to govern ourselves
A Coos County, OR, resident calls out local officials supporting the oil and gas industry, rather than supporting residents in building long term economic and…
Who Needs Sanctuary? We All Do
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,…
In These Times: Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection Sues Towns for Trying to Protect Their Environment
It doesn't get any clearer than this: our own environmental regulatory agencies suing communities who dare to protect the environment by banning fracking activities. Is…
KBOO: Rights-based ban on pesticide spraying in Lincoln Co, OR, is on May ballot
Seeking to elevate environmental rights over corporate "rights," Lincoln Co, OR, residents will vote on a ban on aerial pesticide spraying in May.
PennLive: Outrage and localism after state sues towns that banned frack water wells
Residents of Grant and Highland Townships, PA, are outraged by the Dept. of Environmental Protection's lawsuits against them for rights-based laws banning frack waste injections…
PA Dept of Environmental Protection sues its own communities over fracking injection wells
A state agency charged with protecting the health and safety of communities and the natural environment sues Grant and Highland Townships in Pennsylvania, attempting to…
Changing the power structures through We the People 2.0 and Community Rights
Gig Harbor, WA, residents face over-development and environmental threats - and turn to the documentary We the People 2.0 and Community Rights for solutions.
CCBOR Media Release: Columbus Water Protectors Deliver Anti-Fracking Petitions to City Hall
Columbus, OH, residents to deliver more than 10,000 signatures to City Hall on Friday. Residents are working to place a Community Bill of Rights banning…
Voices Network: Occupy Community Rights
Co-host David Callihan interviews CELDF's Emelyn Lybarger and OHCRN's Tish O'Dell, discussing Community Rights to create the change necessary to transform our oppressive structure of…
Earth Island Institute: Achieving Self-Governance
A review of CELDF's book, We the People - Stories from the Community Rights Movement in the United States.
Indiana Gazette LTE: Learning from Grant Twp, PA, on protecting our communities from fracking
When our government fails to protect us from fracking activities, we must do so ourselves.
The World: Coos County Right to a Sustainable Energy Future Ordinance on May ballot in OR
Coos County, OR, residents advance rights to stop Jordan Cove LNG export project.
Bioneers: Bioneers Partners with CELDF on Rights of Nature in Indigenous Communities
Where indigenous communities seek a western legal framework to protect Rights of Nature, CELDF and Bioneers are working together to support them.
The World: Coos and Columbia Counties exercise right of local self-government
Oregon residents take a stand over state preemption and unsustainable fossil fuel projects.
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