Written Word, Spoken Word: Team Mora Kicks Judge Browning’s Bootie (In His Own Goddamned Courtroom)
Blogger Frances Madeson reveals Judge Browning's pained granting of intervenor status to the Mora Land Grant and Jacobo Pacheco in the SWEPI lawsuit seeking to…
Written Word, Spoken Word: 14,392 Reasons for Mora County to Stand Its Ground On the Anti-Fracking Ordinance
Blogger Frances Madeson reveals the number of gas leases in Mora County, making their Community Bill of Rights banning fracking all the more urgent.
Written Word, Spoken Word: SWEPI v. Mora County: The Purple Haze of U.S. Judge James Oren Browning
Blogger Frances Madeson shares the surreal proceedings in the oral arguments of the SWEPI v. Mora County, NM, case. SWEPI is suing to overturn Mora…
People to People Blog: Why Mora County New Mexico is Fighting Frackers for Your Rights, too
Global Exchange's Kiara Collins explores Mora County, NM's, fight for all communities' rights.
Mora County Legal Defense Fund
The Mora County Legal Defense Fund was formed to protect Mora’s Community Rights – including their right to clean air and water, a healthy environment,…
Statement of County Commissioner John Olivas, Chairman, Mora County, New Mexico Board of Commissioners
Mora County, NM, Commission Chairman John Olivas calls on communities across the U.S. to support the people of Mora County as they face corporate assaults…
Local Officials Standing Up to Protect Their Communities from Fracking
As Mora County, NM, and Lafayette, CO, face oil and gas industry challenges to their Community Bills of Rights banning fracking, we are re-posting an…
Why do we need a local bill of rights?
Democracy School attendee Priscilla Stuckey on "Why do we need a local bill of rights?"
View the trailer for “Rooted Lands – Tierras Arraigadas”
Chronicling community rights organizing in New Mexico to protect residents and the land.
CELDF Press Release: Las Vegas, New Mexico, Adopts Community Bill of Rights; Bans Corporations from Fracking for Shale Gas
In front of a standing-room only crowd of residents, by a vote of 3-1, the City Council, Las Vegas, New Mexico enacted the Las Vegas…
KUNM: Las Vegas Passes Ban on Drilling
Sidsel Overgaard of KUNM New Mexico's Community Powered Public Radio reports on Las Vegas, New Mexico's historic action to pass a Community Bill of Rights…
Our Inalienable Rights to Freedom
Mora County, NM, Faces Fracking.