It's not enough to have Home Rule as state legislators continue to strip rights of local self-government from communities across the state. It's time to…
Next City: Can Cities Grant Nature the Right to Exist, and Thrive?
More and more cities are taking action to end the commodification and exploitation of people and nature for corporate profit, using Community Rights and Rights…
Invisible Hand Director Calls In Communities, Calls Out Big Green
Joshua Pribanic, Director of Invisible Hand, issues a call to action for Elizabeth, Pennsylvania; Food & Water Watch responds by withdrawing support.
Standard Speaker: Supervisors want to hear from nonprofit about well issue
Community members in North Union Township, Pennsylvania, engage with CELDF and its partner Network to discuss using Community Rights to protect their water from being…
The Pulse: Do Streams Have Rights?
The Rights of Nature is growing, from concept to practice. While regulations don't protect nature or people, rights do.
Immense Possibilities: The True Rights of Communities
Immense Possibilities interviews CELDF's Thomas Linzey and Coos County, OR, community rights activist Mary Geddry.
PR: Ohio / Pennsylvania Communities Rising Tour: Defying the Corporate State
Ohio and Pennsylvania residents are inundated with environmental harms, and have had enough. Join the Communities Rising tour, featuring voices from the front lines in…
Salon: What’s not being voted on this November: Local democracy is being squashed from coast to coast
Simon Davis-Cohen reveals escalating efforts to quash We the People from exercising our right to initiative. From fracking and water protection, to minimum wage and…
Fusion: This environmental nightmare is ‘raping’ towns, and citizens have one last chance to stop it
As fracking sweeps the nation, communities are using local initiatives to protect themselves - while industry spews propaganda and spends huge sums to stop them.
The Daily Item: My Turn: A necessary change to the system
Our own local electeds are bound by our legal structure to allow harmful corporate practices into the communities they've sworn to protect. It's up to…
Lancaster Online: Speaker: Pennsylvania communities need to revolt against Constitution to stop pipelines
Thomas Linzey speaks to how our legal structure keeping us from protecting our well-being, safeguarding ecosystems, and establishing a sustainable future. We need to change…
DeSmog Blog: Communities Pushing For Legal Rights To Regain Power Over Fracking Companies
As the fracking industry pushes into communities against the will of the people, growing numbers of communities across the U.S. are using community rights in…
Chad Nicholson of CELDF speaks in Potter County, PA
CELDF's Chad Nicholson presents on community rights in Potter County, PA, where residents face fracking.
Tamaqua Borough, Pennsylvania
The story of one Pennsylvania community gaining community rights.
Press Release: Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection Recognizes Community Authority to Ban Frack Wastewater Injection Wells
MERCERSBURG, PA: On August 12, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) took an unprecedented step, for the first time suspending the issuance of a…
Warren City
The Community Rights action in Warren City, Warren County, Pennsylvania has been a dramatic chapter in rights-based organizing. Facing tremendous political opposition from local officials…
State College
On November 8, 2011, the residents of State College voted overwhelmingly—72%—to amend their Home Rule Charter to include a Community Bill of Rights.
Peters Township Overview
On November 23, 2010 Ellen Mavrich contacted CELDF asking for advice about adopting a community rights ordinance similar to the one enacted by Pittsburgh City…
Allegheny Defense Project: Rural PA Township in the Allegheny National Forest refuses to be bullied by Houston, Texas based oil and gas company Seneca Resources Corporation.
Highland Township, PA, supervisors voted last night to defend the people's Community Bill of Rights banning frack wastewater injection wells. Seneca Resources Corporation claims it…
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…
Community Organizing in Pennsylvania
My phone rings, and a very worried women on the other end tells me that she is outraged that a large energy corporation has applied…
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