This blog post by Barb Lucia was posted on the Pennsylvania Community Rights Network's (PACRN) website on October 16, 2019. I was simply a resident in the West Side neighborhood of the City of Warren, not involved in any political action, until 8 years ago when we learned through a reporter’s “leak” of a “secret” [...]
This article by Max Wilbert was published by Deep Green Resistance News Service on November 1st, 2019. As the world moves further into a state of climate crisis, it’s imperative that we study and critique the strategies being proposed to address greenhouse gas emissions, and develop our own strategies based on rigorous assessment of their [...]
This article was written and published by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund on October 23, 2019. Since its inception, a state-wide movement in Ohio has faced a state and corporate attack that amounts to concerted opposition from all branches of state government, corporate lobbies, private law firms, and both political parties. The entire repressive [...]
This article by Simon Davis-Cohen was published in the Scalawag on November 13, 2019. Last week’s elections delivered an overwhelming victory for progressives in Virginia, where Democrats solidified a majority in the General Assembly and candidates in local races followed suit. In Charlottesville, where the deadly white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally took place two [...]
Thom Hartmann on why we should use constitutional solutions to rescue our democracy from the agendas of billionaires and corporations. This excerpt by Thom Hartmann was published in Yes! magazine on November 1st, 2019. There were those among the founders and framers of the Constitution who didn’t mean for the Court to have as much [...]
This article by the Greg Coleridge was published on the Program on Corporations Law and Democracy's (POCLAD) website in October of 2019. Move to Amend recently issued a series of written documents detailing the many constitutional rights awarded to corporations by the Supreme Court. The series, Corporate Hijacking of the U.S. Constitution , includes a four-page [...]
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) recently published a do it yourself guide on how to advance Community Rights laws in your state. You can learn all about it and download it HERE! Description of the publication below. Are you interested in advancing Community Rights laws in your state? Community Rights includes Rights of [...]
The push for more local control upends the typical pattern of Westerners fighting against regulation. This article by Carl Segerstrom was published in High Country News on October 23th, 2019. With both hands in the pockets of his khakis, Loren Wand wavered nervously on a small stage at Bier One Brewing in Newport, Oregon. A gathering [...]
The local law is currently protecting Grant Township’s drinking water source from toxic hydraulic fracking waste injections. This press release was published by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) on October 17th, 2019. --A week ago, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) presented arguments to overturn a community ban on frack waste injection [...]
We're still treating a living, life-sustaining, crucial being as property: the ecosystem. And in the process, we’re choking our own habitat—that is to say, ourselves—to death. This article by Robert C. Koehler was published on Common Dreams on October 10th, 2019. "When the U.S. Constitution was ratified, women, indigenous peoples, and slaves were treated as [...]
