A diary from occupystephanie draws parallels between Community Rights and other rights' movements and describes CELDF's work with municipalities across the U.S. to leverage those…
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Foster’s Daily Democrat: Reclaiming community rights is nothing new
A New Hampshire Community Rights Network Board member traces Community Rights back to colonial New England, where residents reclaimed those rights from the British Crown…
PACRN Statement: Conestoga Township, PA, Resident Unjustly Arrested for Speaking Truth at a Public Meeting
The Pennsylvania Community Rights Network stands by Conestoga Township, PA, resident Kim Kann, who was arrested for speaking truth at a public meeting this week.…
The Great Salt Lake is Disappearing… So Utah Bans Rights of Nature.
...planetary history. In this essay, Will Falk, encourages Rights of Nature advocates to recognize that we cannot wait for courts and governments to enforce Rights…
Wouldn’t You Say? – Community Self-Government
...money-making. Tellingly, it’s only when the people demand rights for themselves that they’ve had to wage multi-generational campaigns for constitutional recognition of those rights. For…
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…
Press Release: Changing Culture, Changing Law through Art – Andrea Bowers and CELDF: Exist, Flourish, Evolve
...an LED text and light installation that is a corollary to the downtown neon sculpture, drawings of the Lake Erie Bill of Rights and Great…
United Nations Radio: Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature promotes its cause at Rio+20
The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature is....calling for global recognition and acceptance of Rights of Nature. They say an essential step for achieving…
Earth Air Waves: An End to Begging and Pleading?
Sidsel Overgaard of KUNM, New Mexico's Community Powered Public Radio, interviews CELDF's Thomas Linzey about elevating community rights and rights of nature above corporate "rights"…
ABC Drive (North Queensland): Interview on the rights of the Great Barrier Reef
Listen to Dr. Michelle Maloney, founder of the Australian Centre for the Rights of Nature, on laws recognizing rights of the Great Barrier Reef to…
New Hampshire Community Rights Justified Heritage
New Hampshire Community Rights Network Coordinator Michelle Sanborn asserts the state's Community Rights Amendment - co-sponsored by several state legislators - has its roots in…
Podcast with GrassRoot Ohio: Death by Democracy- Episode 2 – w/ Tish O’Dell
...immigrant rights, fair election issues, and nature’s rights, including the first in the nation law recognizing the rights of a specific ecosystem, the Lake Erie…
Should Rivers & Trees Have Rights?
...movement is growing around the rights of nature, arguing that rivers, lakes, and forests should have legal rights for themselves, not for their value to…
From Waterville to Youngstown: A Tale of Two Ohio Cities Fighting to Protect Themselves
Waterville, OH, residents adopt a Community Bill of Rights Charter Amendment banning Spectra Energy's pipeline and compressor station. Youngstown residents are a beacon, refusing to…
Gas Drilling and Your Rights
Holy Frack! Pittsburgh Bans Gas Drilling Through Rights-based Ordinance
Pittsburgh is the first major U.S. city to adopt a rights-based ordinance that includes the legal rights for nature....
Does Nature have Rights?
Press Release: Free Speech Advocate Moves to Lift Gag Order Regarding Radioactive Brine Used on Roadways
...movement for Community Rights and the Rights of Nature to advance democratic, economic, social, and environmental rights – building upward from the grassroots to the…
“What Revolution? Systemic Racism, Sexism, and Genocide from America’s Beginning”
...community rights and rights of nature local legislation. In 2010, Ben was called into Pittsburgh, PA, where he organized in the City’s nine districts and…
Rights of Nature on the Santa Monica City Council Agenda
Santa Monica City Council introduces California's first community rights ordinance, recognizing the right to self-governance, clean air and water, sustainable food and energy systems, and…
Guest Blog: Badges and Incidents of Slavery
...a reflection of CELDF’s commitment to featuring diverse perspectives and ideas in the quest to bring about a community rights and rights of nature existence…
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