This audio interview with Mari Margil was posted on the Oxford Human Rights Hub April 10, 2018. The 30 minute can be downloaded HERE. A brief commentary by Community Rights US media team member Curt Hubatch: Mari Margil made a few points in this interview that really stuck out for me. The first being that climate change, along with the destruction of the [...]
Leslie Gregory is a certified Physician Assistant living in Portland, Oregon. She is a navy veteran and mother of two, and a longtime social justice activist. She is the founder of Right to Health US, a national campaign asserting that racism meets the government's official criteria to be declared as a threat to public health. [...]
This audio interview with award-winning activist Carol Van Strum and Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) organizer Kai Huschke can be listened to on Jefferson Public Radio's website. Listen to the 22 minute interview HERE. A guest commentary by Community Rights US's Curt Hubatch: Carol Van Strum's extraordiary and award-winning actions as a public citizen started, [...]
Paul Cienfuegos presented the Keynote Speech at Progresstival in La Crosse, Wisconsin on February 3rd, 2018. The full text of his speech is below. To listen to it on audio, click HERE and scroll to the six-minute mark. Thank you all for inviting me to such a wonderful event today. It’s a pleasure to be here [...]
This Radio Lab radio presentation aired, January 31st, 2018. This 57 minute audio production can be listened to HERE. An unassuming string of 16 words tucked into the Constitution grants Congress extensive power to make laws that impact the entire nation. The Commerce Clause has allowed Congress to intervene in all kinds of situations — [...]
This audio interview took place on January 24th, 2018 on KBOO public radio in Portland, Oregon. This 62 minute audio can be downloaded and listened to HERE. Historian Ray Raphael discusses his research and its implications with Community Rights activist Paul Cienfuegos Drawing on oral histories and in-depth research, historian Ray Raphael of Humboldt County, CA, has written over 20 [...]
This audio interview with NH representative Ellen Read and CELDF’s Michelle Sanborn about the NH Community Rights state constitutional amendment took place on The Harmann Report, November 27, 2017. This 10 minute interview starts 31:00 into the podcast, and can be listened to HERE.
This recent audio interview with Juliee de la Terre was posted on The Progressive Radio Network's website November 30, 2017. This 47 minute interview can be heard HERE. Juliee de la Terre holds an MS from the Gaylord Nelson Institute for environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison. She has been an activist since [...]
This recent audio interview was posted October 30, 2017 on KBOO Radio's website. This 8 minute interview can be heard HERE On Wednesday, the Coos River Estuary filed a motion to intervene in the permitting process for the Jordan Cove Energy Project. The motion was filed as part of proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC. Jordan Cove [...]
This audio and article by Luke Runyon originally appeared on KUNC October 19, 2017. few months ago Denver civil rights lawyer Jason Flores-Williams had an idea. He’s made a name for himself recently in a class action lawsuit against the city of Denver where he’s representing the city’s homeless people. “A lot of times I [...]
