Taking steps to assert decision-making authority over their own communities, New Hampshire residents work with the CELDF and NHCRN to advance a rights-based state constitutional…
New Hampshire Public Radio: Local Governance Advocates Try Again To Amend State Constitution
New Hampshire supporters of a community rights state constitutional amendment urge the legislative committee to advance the amendment to the House.
Blog: Think Globally, Enact Locally
"Local control" today means seizing our local governments and enacting laws to protect our communities and the future of the planet.
Think Progress: The new legal threat to environmental attorneys: Sanctions from judges and attorneys general
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:…
Blog: One Final New Year’s Resolution for 2018
Let's stop lying to each other and stop protesting. Let's start truth-telling and begin building our communities based on rights. It's time.
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…
In These Times: Does the Natural World Needs Its Own Bill of Rights?
Environmental regulations aren't doing much for the environment - but recognizing nature's rights is.
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…
Blog: When we fight, we win
Why are attacks from the corporate state escalating against communities who are advancing basic rights and protecting themselves from harm? And what's next?
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.
Blog: Having a Dream is Just the Beginning
Dr. Martin Luther King is remembered for his extraordinary leadership in advancing Civil Rights. Let us not forget, either, how the system he and his…
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…
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