The British are fighting to protect their communities from fracking, as we are in the U.S. We share a common history: the claimed rights of…
Ryan Talbott Joins CELDF Board of Directors
Ryan Talbott, an environmental lawyer, joins the Board of Directors of CELDF.
2016: A Year in Review
What an amazing year - from Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New Hampshire, to Washington and Oregon, people are growing Community Rights and protecting their communities from…
Harper’s Magazine: Class Takeover
It's not just water that's privatized and stripped from local control. Youngstown, OH's education system has been seized from the public and put into private…
Blog: The Police State Policing Police. How’s That Been Working for You?
We live in a corporatized police state. Violence to protect property and suppress people is condoned by the power elite. Rather than pleading for the…
The Blade: B.G. council to decide on pipeline offer
About 100 people attended a Bowling Green, OH, City Council meeting. Residents urged council members to refuse easement access to Spectra Energy for a pipeline…
Blog: Propertied Privilege Trumps Democracy
Upset with the Electoral College and disturbed by the implications of who was elected President? Let's look a little deeper and see what's really going…
The Gazette: “We the People 2.0” documentary shows similar struggles to opposition to NEXUS pipeline
The Nexus Pipeline threatens Medina County, OH, residents. Medina residents gather to watch We the People 2.0, a documentary about communities across the U.S. facing…
Blog: Government Checks and Balances, and the Trump Suit
Trump ideology is poised to take over all three branches of government. And yet the fundamental and powerful principal of government's purpose - to protect…
PR: Highland Township Bans Injection Wells, Rebukes Corporate Rule
Highland Township, PA, voters step up their fight to protect themselves from a frack wastewater injection well, adopting a rights-based Home Rule Charter banning the…
PR: Youngstown Residents: Unshakable Determination as They Look Ahead to Next Community Bill of Rights
The might of the oil and gas industry and its allies were out in force, outspending residents enormously in today's election to defeat the people's…
PR: Waterville Residents Ban Pipelines and Compressor Stations through Adopting Community Bill of Rights
Waterville, OH, residents make clear the Nexus pipeline and compressor station will not cut through their community, overwhelmingly adopting a Community Bill of Rights Charter…
Kane Republican: Township referendum question causes ad campaign onslaught
As Highland Township, PA, residents prefer to vote on their rights-based Home Rule Charter to protect themselves against a frack wastewater injection well, Seneca Resources…
CELDF Blog: From Absurd and Far-Fetched to Inalienable
As the predictable self-destruction of this culture of deceit and greed proceeds and accelerates, CELDF’s recommendations for change will become less "far-fetched" and "absurd." They…
The Investigative Fund: Big Oil and Gas Take Aim at Ballot Initiative Process in Colorado
In Colorado and Ohio, the oil and gas industry maneuvers to keep citizen initiatives threatening fracking off the ballot. In Colorado, the industry has advanced…
Salon: What’s not being voted on this November: Local democracy is being squashed from coast to coast
Simon Davis-Cohen reveals escalating efforts to quash We the People from exercising our right to initiative. From fracking and water protection, to minimum wage and…
The Gazette: NEXUS route changes, concerns discussed
While the Nexus pipeline has been re-routed, it's simply sacrificing another community in Medina County, Ohio. Residents meet to learn what's happening and what they…
The Blade: Protect children by passing issue 3
In a letter-to-the-editor, Waterville resident urges support for the community's rights-based initiative banning the Nexus pipeline and compressor station, and exercising their right to democratic…
Truthout: Democracy Deferred: Ohio Removes Anti-Fracking Measures From County Ballots
In Ohio and elsewhere, when democracy threatens the oil and gas industry, those occupying our legal and governing structures take liberty in interpreting the law…
The Blade: Nexus is a bad deal for Waterville
A Waterville, OH, residents speaks up on a compressor station: "If our political leaders will not protect our children, then we the people must pass…
Ed “Flash” Ferenc on America’s Work Force Radio Interviews CELDF’s Tish O’Dell
CELDF's Tish O'Dell speaks up on American's Workforce Radio regarding using Community Rights to create the environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable communities we envisions. Begins…
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