If we take a knee to protest racism in our capacity as employees, our rights under the first amendment are not protected.
Press Release: Split Decision in Ohio Supreme Court for Youngstown Ballot Initiatives
In a 4-3 decision, the Ohio Supreme Court denies Youngstown residents the right to vote. Residents vow they are not surrendering their rights.
Press Release: Judge Strikes Portions of Democratically-Enacted Charter Banning Frack Waste
Highland Township, PA, residents plan enforcement of their Home Rule Charter banning a frack wastewater injection well as judiciary sides with Seneca Resources Corporation.
The Register-Guard: Supporters of Lane County aerial herbicide spraying ban say they have enough signatures to put measure on May 15 election ballot
Lane County, OR, residents submit signatures to place a rights-based initiative banning aerially sprayed pesticides on the May 2018 ballot.
Boulder Weekly: Rights of nature lawsuit seeks personhood for the Colorado River
In a groundbreaking lawsuit, the rights of nature is used as a new legal paradigm to protect the Colorado River.
Daily Camera: Lisa Flynn: Take Back Local Government
Longmont, CO, resident calls out state government sacrificing communities for corporate fracking interests. CELDF offers action for residents to protect themselves.
Seeker: Lawsuit Seeks Legal Rights for the Colorado River
Today, the Colorado River files in federal court for recognition of its rights to exist and flourish, as global warming and human consumption threaten its…
New York Times: Corporations have rights. Why Not Rivers?
A federal lawsuit asserting the rights of the Colorado River challenges conventional legal doctrines in the U.S.
BG Independent News: Two sides at odds over proposed BG charter amendment
Community rights proponents in Bowling Green, OH, work to protect themselves from harmful fossil fuel projects through a rights-based charter amendment.
San Diego Free Press: Why Does the Colorado River Need to Sue For Rights?
Without rights, the Colorado River is merely an object for human exploitation, rather than recognized as the living ecosystem it is, and wholly necessary to…
The Athens News: High Court shoots down third local anti-fracking charter
When county residents in Ohio seek to reform their government, that very government blocks them. At stake: communities' clean air and water, and their right…
Desmog: Ohio Communities Face ‘Voter Suppression’ in Push to Rein in Oil and Gas Development
What's going on in Ohio? Voter suppression in the form of blocking rights-based citizen initiatives from the ballot for a vote. Who's behind it? The…
Press Release: People’s Constitutional Right to Form Charter Government Stricken by Ohio Supreme Court
The Ohio Supreme Court places insurmountable requirements on county charter initiatives. For three years, counties have attempted to protect themselves from fracking through advancing rights-based…
BG Independent News: Anti-pipeline charter amendment now in limbo
The people's right to vote on a right to climate charter amendment in Bowling Green, OH, is challenged by one resident.
Public News Service: Does Nature Have the Right to Defend Itself in Court?
The Siletz River in Oregon files to intervene in a lawsuit brought to overturn a community rights ban on aerially sprayed pesticides.
BG Independent News: Pipeline petition cleared to appear on BG ballot
The Wood County, OH, Board of Elections supports Bowling Green residents' right to vote, placing the people's right to climate initiative on the November ballot.
Press Release: Bowling Green Residents Have More Right to Initiative than Youngstown Residents?
The Board of Elections denies Youngstown, OH, residents their inalienable right to vote on their own citizen initiatives. Residents are challenging the stripping of their…
Sentinel-Tribune: Bowling Green charter amendment will appear on November ballot
Bowling Green, OH, residents' community rights citizen initiative to codify a right to climate advances to the November ballot.
Daily Camera: LTE: Demand county take action
Boulder County, CO, resident calls for people to stand up to protect themselves from oil and gas industry by driving into law a Community Bill…
The Thom Hartmann Program: The Second American Revolution with Director Leila Conners
Tree Media's Leila Connors speaks to the documentary We the People 2.0 - The Second American Revolution, and how communities across the U.S. are using…
The Thom Hartmann Program: We Don’t Just Have a Fracking Problem, We Have A Democracy Problem!
CELDF's Tish O'Dell is on the Thom Hartmann Program, exploring why we don't have a fracking problem - but instead a democracy problem.
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