From a September 21, 2017 article: Activists disrupted the federal agency’s first open meeting since January, saying regulators disregard environmental risks and facilitate land grabs by pipeline companies. “They shouldn’t pretend that the people in the community have a voice when they disregard their voices.” Malinda Clatterbuck Founder, Lancaster Against […]
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Houston: A Global Warning
From the August 31, 2017 RollingStone article: “The simple truth is, it’s not just Houston that’s done a poor job of thinking about the future – it’s all of us. We’ve spent 40 years denying the risks of climate change, thinking that if we can just get everyone to buy a […]
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 […]
New Hampshire! Your Last Vestige of Democracy Is at Risk.
Democracy at Risk We interviewed Michelle Sanborn, Community Environmental Defense Fund New Hampshire State Coordinator and New Hampshire Community Rights Network member. Michelle reports on the inception of the Right to Free and Fair Elections Community Bill of Rights campaign in her state. She describes the historic precedent of local, […]
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 […]
Pennsylvania: Nuns Protest Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline by Building Chapel on Proposed Route
From an ECOWATCH article: An order of Catholic nuns and the grassroots coalition Lancaster Against Pipelines have built an open-air chapel in Columbia, Pennsylvania along the proposed route of the Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline to stall construction of the $3 billion project. The St. Louis-headquartered Adorers of the Blood of Christ […]
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 […]
How a Small Town Is Standing Up to Fracking: Grant Township, Pennsylvania, population 741, has became the front line of a radical new environmental movement – and they’re not backing down
“Who will fight back? To some extent, we have already seen the answer. It is rural communities, it is poor communities, it is communities of color, places like Standing Rock, and Flint, Michigan, and Grant Township, vulnerable communities that again and again find themselves on the front lines of the […]