Calvert County, MD, residents are working with CELDF to draft a Community Bill of Rights to protect themselves from future harmful corporate projects, such as…
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Press Release: Grant Township, PA: The People Left Out of Court Decision
...the will and the rights of the people who live there. Grant residents consider an appeal, while growing numbers of residents seek a state constitutional…
Oregon Community Rights Network: Community Rights Workshop
...most to us in Oregon? This 2-hour workshop hosted by the Oregon Community Rights Network and the CELDF will provide an overview of: Why conventional…
Press Release: Athens County Residents Fight for Right to Initiative
In Remembrance of Gail Darrell
...Darrell. For nearly a decade, Gail has worked to protect communities across New England from corporate and government interests that sought to override the rights…
Highland Township
Highland Township in Elk County, PA, adopted a Community Bill of Rights Ordinance in January 2013, codifying the community’s rights to clean air, water, the…
Chile’s Rejection
...gender equality, indigenous rights and the protection of nature – was rejected by almost 62% of voters in a national plebiscite on 4 September. How…
Wouldn’t You Say? – The Law Did not Save Grant Township’s Water, the People of Grant Did
...souls an affront to the rights of the community, and their attack on the municipality’s home rule charter an assault on democracy. Grant Township was…
Restructuring Ohio State Government
November Elections Update
It’s Inevitable – More to Come in Chile
...It is inevitable. CELDF is here to support the journey in Chile along with all the other efforts happening in the name of community rights…
CELDF Publication: Wouldn’t You Say?
...Beliefs that Doom Western Society Ignorance as License Property What are the Rights of Nature? Nature is What’s Real Personhood Saving the Economy means not…
Invisible Hand Screening
Sunday, June 27th @ 6:30 pm PT INVISIBLE HAND is a “paradigm-shifting” documentary about the creation of the ‘Rights of Nature.’ The defining battle of…
Suggested Reading: English Translation & Webinar of the Landmark Decision in Ecuador to Protect Los Cedros Forest over Mining Profits
...in the language of upholding the Rights of Nature, but it demonstrates what it looks like in legal language to uphold the rights of a…
The Colorado Statesman: Activists tweak message, timing in latest anti-fracking ballot fight
Activists will take another crack at passing the Colorado Community Rights Amendment, a proposed ballot initiative designed to give localities a veto over corporate activity,…
Online Community Rights Workshop by CELDF
On August 25 at 7 PM (Pacific Time), Gold Bar Community Rights (GBCR) will host an online workshop by Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)…
Bellingham Community Rights vs. Corporate Rights
Why support Bellingham, WA's Community Bill of Rights? Suzanne Ravet, a member of Coal-Free Bellingham, gives her account. Read more here from Northwest Citizen....
Benton County Community Rights Coalition co-founder Clint Lindsey on TVSet to talk about Community Rights vs. GMOs
...and food systems in the Willamette Valley. The summit was co-sponsored by CELDF, Benton County Community Rights Coalition, Oregon Tilth, Oregonians for Farm and Food…
July 2013 CELDF Update
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…
Media Release: New Hampshire Community Rights Amendment Hijacked by Party Politics
The New Hampshire Community Rights Amendment, CACR8, went before the state House of Representatives last week. It was blocked from advancing to a vote by…
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