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Oct 17, 2013
Updates from Oregon to Austraila in this month’s CELDF’s newsletter.
Read More | UncategorizedJul 8, 2013
Updates and news from CELDF communities across the country.
Read More | UncategorizedApr 29, 2013
Mora County, NM, adopts first-in-the-nation ban on oil and gas extraction, protecting residents and local ecosystems from fracking.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 13, 2013
Highland Township, PA, Board of Supervisors vote unanimously to retain CELDF to help defend their “Community Rights Protection from Injection Wells Ordinance” against Seneca Resources.
Read More | Community WiresFeb 6, 2013
Sometimes, a film comes along that conveys a message we’ve been listening for, but haven’t yet heard. A message that shows us what we’ve had a sense of, but haven’t been able to explain – let alone offer a solution.
Read More | UncategorizedSep 15, 2012
Currently, most development of wind energy resources is carried out by a handful of large corporations…. The corporation…controls the land, production of energy from the wind resource, and the distribution of that energy to the grid.
Read More | Press Releases & BlogsAug 22, 2012
How Environmental Groups Keep Leading Communities into Dead-Ends.
Read More | UncategorizedJan 1, 2012
A great deal of activism has emerged in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC. In that case, the Court declared that corporate First Amendment “free speech” rights were violated by federal law which limited corporate spending in elections. Following the ruling, several groups began working to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution to overturn Citizens United. CELDF was invited to participate in those efforts based on our ongoing legislative work on corporate “rights.”… As the Legal Defense Fund has observed the national activism following the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United, we’ve declined to participate in proposed efforts to amend the U.S. Constitution for two main reasons.
Read More | Press Releases & BlogsOct 31, 2011
Oct 11, 2011
If the Occupy movement is to succeed over time, it must follow the lead of community rights building efforts that have begun work to dismantle the body of law that perpetually subordinates people, communities, and nature to wealthy corporate minorities.
Read More | News from the GrassrootsAug 16, 2011
Envision Spokane’s Brad Read on the “Community Bill of Rights” Initiative.
Read More | UncategorizedNov 16, 2010
Today, the Pittsburgh City Council unanimously adopted an ordinance banning corporations from conducting shale gas drilling in the city.
Read More | Community Wires, Press Releases & Blogs, Success StoryNov 10, 2010
“Drilling opponents and supporters can all agree that if Marcellus Shale development proceeds, it should happen in a manner that protects workers, the environment and communities.”
Read More | UncategorizedNov 7, 2010
Blaine Township is a small rural township some 45 miles west of Pittsburgh, in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Western Pennsylvania has been mining coal for 250 years, but no mining has occurred in Blaine and its residents and township supervisors aim to keep it that way.
Read More | Community WiresSep 16, 2010
Apr 6, 2006
The story of how two communities changed their thinking and their strategies, and became the first to adopt rights-based ordinances banning water privatization.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 9, 2005
Early in the 20th Century, giant corporations like Woolworth’s, Sears Roebuck, J.C. Penney, Ligget, and A&P began forcing their chain stores into communities across the nation. The chains were unwelcome. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, people in towns from coast to coast banded together to stop this corporate invasion, only to be beaten back by corporations and the federal government.
Read More | Press Releases & BlogsAug 30, 1930
The attitude of the well-to-do classes toward local self-government was profoundly influenced by the extension of the suffrage…the removal of property qualifications tended to divest the old ruling class of its control in local affairs.
Read More | Resource LinksDec 15, 0200
“Democracy Matters” Podcast for the week of Dec 13: A Debate on WikiLeaks, and featuring Part II of our interview with Professor Christopher Stone, author of “Should Trees Have Standing?”
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