The city of Spokane attempts to keep the people of Spokane from voting on their own Worker Bill of Rights, filing a lawsuit to block…
Envision Worker Rights Media Statement: City Files Legal Challenge to Block the Democratic Rights of Voters
Despite the constitutional right of Spokane, WA, citizens to vote on their own Worker Bill of Rights, the City of Spokane files suit in an…
The Southern Illinoisan: Anti-fracking group drafting a community bill of rights
Jackson County, IL, residents launch a campaign to advance a Community Bill of Rights banning fracking as a violation of their rights to clean air…
The World: Your View: Kudos from the other end of the LNG pipe
The people of Colorado express esprit de corps with and appreciation of the people of Oregon as both states advance community rights to stop fracking…
Foster’s Daily Democrat: Reclaiming community rights is nothing new
A New Hampshire Community Rights Network Board member traces Community Rights back to colonial New England, where residents reclaimed those rights from the British Crown…
Dissident Voice: The Future is in the Past: Economics 101 for Spokane
An in-depth look at Spokane, WA, its economy, and what sustainable and just would mean to the almost 40,000 people living in poverty. This includes…
Foster’s Daily Democrat: CELDF can help communities
In a letter-to-the-editor, New Hampshire resident and New Hampshire Community Rights Network member Pamela Martin recognizes CELDF's work to support communities in protecting their rights…
Plunderblund: Lethal Injection: One County’s Fight Against Frack Waste Wells And The Need For A Statewide Effort
As Athens County, OH, residents are subjected to increasing quantities of fracking wastewater imported into their communities, they are finding no remedy in their state…
The Spokesman-Review: Envision Spokane initiative would add workers’ rights to city charter
Envision Spokane - a community, rights-based organization in Spokane, WA - is advancing a Worker's Bill of Rights for the November 2015 ballot that would…
Inlander: Envision Spokane files new Worker Bill of Rights initiative
Envision Spokane advances a CELDF-drafted Worker's Bill of Rights to protect workers' rights to a living wage, and three other key provisions.
Windsor Now: Community rights discussion takes root in Windsor
Residents of Windsor, CO, work to place a rights-based Charter Amendment on the ballot for a vote by the people, to secure and protect community…
New Hampshire Public Radio: Newfound Voters Again Weighing Wind Restrictions
Threatened with industrial wind farms, communities in New Hampshire use Community Bills of Rights to ban the harmful practices. The Town of Alexandria votes this…
BlogTalkRadio: Soldiers for Peace International: CELDF and Local Democracy with Kai Huschke
While corporations are granted growing numbers of "rights" by the courts, local communities are asserting community rights to local self-government, and to clean air, soil,…
Foster’s Daily Democrat: Barrington citizens add resource protection item to March ballot
Barrington, NH, residents bring a Community Bill of Rights initiative to direct democracy at Town Meeting in March. The Barrington community is threatened by water,…
The Spokesman-Review: Court orders initiative vote
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…
First Voices Radio: Will Falk, Guest for the Full Hour
Will Falk is a biophilic author, attorney, and activist. He works with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund and his law practice is focused on…
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…
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