CELDF’s Kai Huschke was centrally involved in the first-in-the-nation Community Bill of Rights and Worker Bill of Rights. His chapter for the new book One-Block…
Press Release: Court Dismisses Climate Lawsuit on Procedural Grounds; Constitutional Right to a Healthy Climate Ignored
A federal judge uses "standing" to dismiss Spokane residents' lawsuit asserting a right to a healthy climate, ignoring the urgency of climate change and the…
Press Release: Spokane Arrestees Sue U.S. Government: Seek to Overturn Federal Preemption of Local Control Over Coal and Oil Trains
CELDF files lawsuit against the federal government, asserting federal law preempting municipal control of fossil fuel rail shipments violates residents’ constitutional right to a healthy…
Press Release: Spokane Arrestees Sue U.S. Government – Seek to Overturn Federal Preemption of Local Health and Safety Laws Concerning Coal and Oil Trains
CELDF files lawsuit against the federal government, asserting federal law preempting municipal control of fossil fuel rail shipments violates residents’ constitutional right to a healthy…
Spokane: Ballot Box and Court Room for Rights
This November, Spokane, WA, residents led groundbreaking work in advancing worker rights, and made a stand for community rights in the Washington Supreme Court.
November Elections Update
Learn the latest news from election day in Grant Township and West Chester, PA; Youngstown, OH; and Spokane, WA. And check out the launch of…
August Update: Chomsky, Hedges, Unions Endorse Worker Bill of Rights
Learn the latest news on Spokane, WA's, Worker Bill of Rights, read Community Rights Paper #5 on Citizens United, and join us for the launching…
Dissident Voice: The Future is in the Past: Economics 101 for Spokane
An in-depth look at Spokane, WA, its economy, and what sustainable and just would mean to the almost 40,000 people living in poverty. This includes…
CELDF Statement: Spokane Initiative Decision
In the face of corporations and government joining together to suppress the democratic rights of the people of Spokane, WA, to vote on a Community…
CELDF Statement: Spokane Initiative Decision
In the face of corporations and government joining together to suppress the democratic rights of the people of Spokane, WA, to vote on a Community…
Truthout: ALEC Forces the Question: Will Labor Really Go Local?
While ALEC and other pro-corporate entities attempt to decrease worker rights,CELDF partners in Colorado and Spokane, WA, begin working on Community Bills of Rights to…
July 2013 CELDF Update
Updates and news from CELDF communities across the country.
Press Release: Washington Communities Launch Statewide Network To Advocate for Community Rights
Washington Communities Launch Statewide Network to Advocate for Community Rights.
Spokane’s Move to Amend, Occupy Spokane, Envision Spokane, and CELDF Join Together to Advance Elections Ordinance Banning Corporate Involvement in Elections and Government While Stripping Corporate “Rights”
Drafted by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) and Envision Spokane, the organizations Occupy Spokane and Spokane Move to Amend (SMAC) are currently qualifying…
Envision Spokane: Worker Rights, Not Corporate Employer Rights
Cross the threshold into a private workplace and POOF!, your constitutional rights disappear. It’s true. Gone go your First, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights,…
Envision Spokane: River Rights, Not Corporate Polluter Rights
Prop. 1 would establish the highest protections for the River and Aquifer – recognizing their rights to exist; it then provides for us – as…
Envision Spokane: Neighborhood Rights, Not Corporate Developer Rights
Today, corporate developers have more rights than our neighborhoods. Prop. 1 would require developers to obtain neighborhood approval for zoning changes involving significant development. It…
Envision Spokane: Community Rights, not Corporate Rights
It is time to reign in corporation so that they serve people, not the other way around. In Spokane, corporations are given the same legal…
Envision Spokane Successfully Qualifies Initiative to the Ballot
Envision Spokane's Brad Read on the "Community Bill of Rights" Initiative.
Democracy Matters Radio
Net Neutrality - Corporate Control of the Internet. And drilling Ohio. This week on Democracy Matters Radio.
Democracy Matters
Bailing out corporations, but not communities - a federal double standard? And Mora County, NM - community rights vs. fracking. This week on Democracy Matters…
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