Communities across the country are rising up as corporate threats grow - including Ohio, where residents are advancing rights-based state constitutional amendments elevating Community Rights…
The Athens News: Rights groups hope to achieve goals by altering state law
Coming up against state preemption and corporate "rights," Ohio residents say "no more!" They are working with CELDF to advance two state constitutional amendments that…
Cleveland.com: Ohio local governance amendments certified by Attorney General Mike DeWine
Ohio residents meet first hurdle in advancing two rights-based state constitutional amendments, drafted with CELDF and the Ohio Community Rights Network.
Press Release: Ohio Residents Fight for Rights: Submit State Constitutional Amendments to Guarantee Right to Local Self-Government
Today, residents take action to protect democratic and environmental rights in Ohio, submitting two state constitutional amendments to the Ohio Attorney General.
Press Release: As Part of Growing Community Rights Movement, New Hampshire Legislators Consider State Constitutional Amendment
The NH Community Rights Network and residents successfully introduce a rights-based state constitutional amendment to the NH legislature with Representative Ellen Read as a sponsor.
Sentinel-Tribune: Ohio Supreme Court denies effort to keep BG charter amendment off ballot
The people prevail! An attempt to keep Bowling Green, OH, residents from voting on their Right to Climate ballot initiative falls flat before the Ohio…
CBC Radio’s The Current: Colorado River should have same legal status as a person: lawsuit
The Current interviews attorney Jason Flores-Williams on his work with Deep Green Resistance to recognize the rights of the Colorado River. DGR filed a federal…
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.
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: 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.
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.
Business Insider: How Pittsburgh embraced a radical environmental movement popping up in conservative towns across America
Recognizing the rights of nature is a strategy leveraged by communities in partnership with CELDF across the U.S. to protect themselves from fracking harms. The…
Yes! Magazine: A New Zealand River Has Human Rights. Now Will Modern Law Come to Its Senses?
Rather than being an idea on the fringes, the rights of nature is gaining legal and cultural traction as courts around the world are beginning…
Scientific American: Rivers Get Human Rights: They Can Sue to Protect Themselves
Rights of nature has shifted from theory to practice over the last decade, being realized in legal doctrines in U.S. communities and in countries around…
Fosters.com: Community Rights Ordinance saved Nottingham’s water
Our communities are threatened by unwanted development, and our democracy is in crisis. This is what we can do: join together and protect ourselves and…
Press Release: Lincoln County, OR, Adopts First-in-Nation Ban of Aerial Pesticide Spray
Lincoln County, OR, residents, facing decades of pesticide use by the timber industry, adopt the first ban of the practice as a violation of environmental…
KBOO: Lincoln County Aerial Spray Ban Passes
Aerial spraying of pesticides is banned by Lincoln County, OR, voters. Residents elevate the rights of communities over corporate "rights" as they protect themselves from…
Press Release: Lincoln Co., OR: On Verge of First in Nation Citizen Initiative to Ban Aerial Spray Pesticides
A Community Bill of Rights by the people of Lincoln Co, OR, is just ahead at the polls. Residents are fighting for their democratic and…
Press Release: Colombia Constitutional Court Finds Atrato River Possesses Rights
Reversing course from mainstream views of nature as property, Colombia's Constitutional Court finds the Atrato River is a rights-bearing entity - a necessary step to…
El Heraldo: Rights of Nature granted to the Atrato River in Colombia
A Colombian court recognizes the rights of the Atrato River to exist and flourish, ordering the end of illegal mining and the use of toxins…
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