Community of Rights – Rights of Community enters into a dialogue with global communities about the meaning of being human and having rights. This book…
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OHCRN Statement: Broadview Heights, OH, County Court Decision Evokes Rallying Cry from Residents
While a County Court elevates corporate claimed "rights" over community rights in Broadview Heights, OH, residents assert the decision is illegitimate and determine to continue…
Blog: Who Needs Sanctuary? We All Do
People can’t be illegal, but policies that strip them of fundamental rights can be. What can we do? Govern ourselves in the places we live,…
Blog: When we fight, we win
Why are attacks from the corporate state escalating against communities who are advancing basic rights and protecting themselves from harm? And what's next?...
CELDF: The Real Frackasaurus Coloring Book
Press Release: Ecosystem, Community Group, and Municipal Authority File for Intervention in Lawsuit to Defend Community from Injection Well
HIGHLAND TOWNSHIP, PA: Today, an ecosystem in the United States filed a motion to intervene in a federal lawsuit to defend its own rights to…
Press Release: “Water is Life” — Lane County, Oregon Seeks Watershed Rights
...rights to black former slaves, and then to women, in the 19th and 20th century. These rights include both the inherent rights of watersheds themselves,…
Blog: America Denies “Personhood” to the Poor
The more property you own, the more rights you are accorded. If you're homeless, propertyless, imprisoned, or undocumented, your rights are almost nil. That's not…
Press Release: Ecuador Approves New Constitution: Voters Approve Rights of Nature
...its processes in evolution. Every person, people, community or nationality, will be able to demand the recognitions of rights for nature before the public bodies.”…
Lake Erie Bill of Rights!
...Erie Bill of Rights (LEBOR) is on the February special elections ballot. Check out news coverage and the growing support for Toledo residents' pioneering efforts…
Blog: A Right to Survive is Born in Denver
Wealthy interests seeking to crush human rights in Denver, Colorado, out raised local supporters of the Denver "Right to Survive" initiative 23:1. This is the…
Press Release: ‘The Courts Are a Sham’: New Hampshire Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Rights of Nature, Healthy Climate Arguments
New Hampshire Supreme Court Refuses to hear arguments on Rights of Nature and the right to a Healthy Climate. Amidst ecological catastrophe, movements for a…
Wouldn’t You Say? – Property
...by law more surely than rights attached to people, like the right to shelter and safety. Beyond the superiority of property rights over human rights,…
Statement on Efforts to Amend the U.S. Constitution following Citizens United
...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…
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…
Press Release: Citizen Initiative Removes Corporations from Election Campaigns, Caps Campaign Contributions
Rights of Nature – 2017 Symposium and Building a Movement
CELDF is leading the Rights of Nature movement, working with communities to change our trajectory and establish the sustainable communities so many envision....
Blog: The NRA, Gun Violence, and Ceiling Preemption
Blog: Ceiling Preemption is UnAmerican
Preemption is used by governments to stop communities from protecting their rights, health, safety, and welfare. It's time to change that - and we can....
Press Release: Anti-Rights of Nature Language Snuck into Ohio State Budget Bill
State of Ohio inserts anti-Rights of Nature language in the budget bill. In an era of climate crisis and growing efforts to advance ecosystem rights,…
Press Release: EXPOSED: Chamber of Commerce Wrote Ohio Law Banning Rights of Nature Enforcement
Investigation by Ohio citizens finds the Ohio Chamber of Commerce drafted Ohio legislation language to stop Rights of Nature enforcement....
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