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Community Rights Organizing Webinar Recording: Liberate Yourself from the Activist Hamster Wheel
Thank you to those who were able to join us for our February 1, 2018 webinar and to those who have requested a recording of the webinar. We believe that this webinar is an excellent way to introduce new people and groups to the Community and Nature Rights Movement. It is […]
Protecting Lake Erie’s Right to Exist with the Lake Erie Bill of Rights
Tom Groover has an INCREDIBLE conversation with grassroots activists Markie Miller and Will Falk about recognizing and protecting the Rights of Nature through local law-making as a legal solution to a fixed governmental/corporate state system. This fixed system places corporate privilege to pillage and pollute over the rights of nature […]
Liberate yourself from the Activist Hamster Wheel: A Quick Webinar Tour of Community Rights Organizing
Join Our Webinar! We will share why our misguided and programmed actions to ask for help and expect results from elected and other government officials do NOT stop the corporate harms in our communities. SOLUTIONS to liberating yourself and your community from this fixed system will be discussed using the Community […]
Time to Escalate? First-Ever Rights of Nature Lawsuit Dismissed
Our Interview with Will Falk: Will’s Article Republished from San Diego Free Press: Our first-in-the-nation lawsuit seeking personhood for the Colorado River was dismissed. After the Colorado Attorney General filed a motion to dismiss and threatened sanctions against attorney Jason Flores-Williams for the unforgivable act of requesting rights for nature, […]
How ‘Antifa’ Mirrors the ‘Alt-Right’
“We will defeat the corporate state only when we take back and empower our communities, as is happening with Cooperation Jackson, a grass-roots cooperative movement in Jackson, Miss. As long as acts of resistance are forms of personal catharsis, the corporate state is secure. Indeed, the corporate state welcomes this violence […]
Ohio: Youngstown Residents Push to Oust Corporations from Election Campaigns, Cap Contributions at $100
From Rural America In These Times’ article on August 8, 2017: “In their seventh attempt to put an end to the environmental threats the oil and gas industry pose to their land, water and right to self-governance, a community rights group in Youngstown, Ohio, is attempting to amend their city’s […]
Ohio: Elections board doesn’t certify county charter petitions
From the July 11, 2017 article: MEDINA TWP. — The Medina County Board of Elections on Monday did not certify petitions with 6,494 signatures of registered voters supporting the placement of a county charter form of government on the Nov. 7 ballot. The board voted 3-to-1 against the initiative, citing advice […]
2017 Pacific Northwest/Hawaii Community Rights Update
2017 Pacific Northwest/Hawaii Community Rights Update: Kai Huschke, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund regional organizer. Topics include Coos County, Oregon’s Community Bill of Rights for a Sustainable Energy Future, Lincoln County Oregon’s Freedom from Aerial Sprayed Pesticides ordinance and the History of Community Rights Organizing in Kauai, Maui and Hawaii. […]
OREGON: Anti-Pesticide Spray Ban squeaks to a narrow victory – 61 vote margin out of nearly 14,000 votes
“Supporters gave thanks to the many people who volunteered and campaigned so valiantly. Ban supporters say the vast amounts spent by corporate opponents failed to convince voters that profits are more important than health, safety, and the right to informed consent. Citizens for a Healthy Lincoln County said Lincoln County […]
Ohio Community Rights Network fights for local government rights
“Years before cleveland.com conceived its Western Reserve project to push for fair representation in northern Ohio, a grassroots group drafted its own declaration of self-governance to launch a fight for local control. “We have been stripped of the right to be able to participate in a basic piece of democracy […]