Commentary by Community Rights US Director Paul Cienfuegos: It’s not that we disagree with the idea that conservatives have captured the meaning of our (second) US Constitution, and that progressives also need their own interpretation to further their political objectives. But we believe that the author of this Opinion piece in The Guardian has overlooked [...]
This editorial by Michelle Sanborn appeared in The Laconia Daily Sun, November 15, 2018. She is the current serving president of the New Hampshire Community Rights Network (NHCRN). To The Daily Sun, Did you know that our individual right to collectively come together and cast a vote on matters that actually mean something to our [...]
This 4 minute video featuring Danielle Allen was published in The Atlantic on November 2nd, 2018. If you get into the Community Rights movement it will not be long and you'll hear this fundamental principle: Governments are instituted to protect the health, safety, and welfare of individuals and communities. If they fail to do so [...]
Objections to the Bayou Bridge Pipeline demonstrate how the system is rigged. This article by Sue Lincoln appeared in The Bayou Brief on September 16, 2018. n Sept. 4, 2018, with bulldozers revving their engines in accompaniment, Cherri Foytlin was tackled and placed in a choke hold by a non-uniformed man who then knelt atop [...]
The subversion of democracy was the explicit intent of the framers. This Op-ed Meagan Day and Bhaskar Sunkara appeared in The New York Times, August 9th, 2918. Consider a few facts: Donald Trump is in the White House, despite winning almost three million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton. The Senate, the country’s most powerful legislative [...]
This Op-Ed by Bill Lyons appeared in the August issue of the Columbus Free Press. Most Columbus residents assume that our city is safe from the fracking industry. It is not. There are currently 13 injection wells of toxic radioactive frack waste in the Upper Scioto Watershed area, Columbus’ source water protection area. This waste [...]
This guest editorial by Douglas Darrell of the National Community Rights Network (NCRN) appeared in The Laconia Daily Sun, July 9th, 2018. Guest commentary by Community Rights US Media Team member Curt Hubatch: To build a movement to elevate Community Rights over corporate rights it will take thousands of letters like Douglas Darrell's written and [...]
A Blog Posting by Ben Price of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from June 29th, 2018. If you’re an American citizen without a home or bank account, a prisoner incarcerated in the American Gulag, or an immigrant with no “documentation,” you have few rights in the United States. Property defines who will and won’t be considered a [...]
An original essay by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) posted on June 29th, 2018. When the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4th, 1776, it was the work of many hands. Thomas Jefferson gets the credit, but the people of more than ninety towns and counties throughout the colonies had sent instructions [...]
This article by Gillian Pomplun appeared in the Crawford County Independent, June 27th, 2018. VIROQUA - The Viroqua City Council met as a committee of the whole on Wednesday, May 30 for a presentation and discussion about community rights. Paul Cienfuegos of ‘Community Rights’ spoke to council members and almost 50 concerned citizens about the [...]
