Editor Simon Davis-Cohen interviews CELDF's Pacific Northwest Community Organizer Kai Huschke about our structure of law and governance that functions to deny communities' rights when…
The Pacific Northwest Inlander: Judgment Day
Corporate and government interests in Spokane, WA, succeed in blocking citizens' initiatives that would establish Community Rights.
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…
Democracy Matters
Pittsburgh City Councilman Doug Shields headlines our "Best of 2010" interviews on Democracy Matters
CELDF on the Radio
When is a Repeal not a Repeal - A look at Don't Ask, Don't Tell and other acts of Congress, and a sneak peak at…
Democracy Matters
Derrick Jensen headlines our "Best of 2010" interviews on this special holiday week edition of Democracy Matters
CELDF on the Radio
"Democracy Matters" Podcast for the week of Dec 6: Featuring Part I of our interview with Professor Christopher Stone, author of "Should Trees Have Standing?"…
CELDF on the Radio
"Democracy Matters" Podcast for Dec. 1: Energy - when will we stop conducting activism - such as advocating for "responsible drilling" - when we know…
CELDF on the Radio
"Democracy Matters" Podcast for Thanksgiving Week: The mythology of Thanksgiving and an interview with CELDF Organizer Chad Nicholson
CELDF on the Radio
"Democracy Matters" Podcast for Nov. 17 - with Part II of our interview with Pittsburgh City Councilman Doug Shields on the city's ordinance banning corporations…
CELDF on the Radio
"Democracy Matters" Podcast for Nov. 10 - with Part I of our interview with Pittsburgh City Councilman Doug Shields on his measure to ban corporations…
CELDF on the Radio
"Democracy Matters" New Podcast for November 4, 2010 - with our election round-up and an interview with Ben Price on Pittsburgh's proposed ordinance banning corporations…
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