This letter to the editor by board members of New Hampshire Community Rights Network appeared on Seacoast Online November 15, 2017. We are writing in support of the recently proposed State Constitutional amendment CACR19. This amendment would secure N.H. citizens’ right to self-government, thereby guaranteeing local communities the authority to protect the health, safety, and [...]
This Guest Column by Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch originally appeared in TCPalm on October 26, 2017. The article is viewable below, following a critique of it (in bold italics) by our own Paul Cienfuegos... We in the Community Rights movement would disagree with the author’s claim that the US or Florida Constitutions “protect our essential rights”. The [...]
This original essay was written by Paul Cienfuegos, Founder and Co-Director of Community Rights US. It has also been published in The PeaceWorker, Oregon’s monthly PeaceWorks news magazine. Paul welcomes other media to publish it also. In early October, Project Censored released its always-newsworthy Top 25 Most Censored Stories of the past year. These are urgent [...]
Youngstown residents submit signatures for their Community Rights Fair Elections Initiative A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from August 7, 2017. Today, a long-standing community rights group in Youngstown, OH, submitted over 1,900 signatures to qualify their Youngstown Fair Election Bill of Rights initiative for the November ballot. The measure is the [...]
Lincoln County passes a ballot measure banning the aerial spraying of pesticides This original article by Meerah Powell appeared in the, EugeneWeekly.Com on June 15, 2017 On May 30, Lincoln County passed ballot measure 21-177, a measure banning the aerial spraying of pesticides, making it the first county in the nation to do so. A [...]
Grant Township, Pennsylvania, population 741, has became the front line of a radical new environmental movement – and they're not backing down. Rolling Stone magazine's first-ever major story about the Community Rights movement, with a focus on the courageous residents of Grant Township, Pennsylvania, who are continuing to make national history as they defend their right to [...]
The latest local news from a corporate media slant about the breathtaking amount of corporate money being spent to defeat a Community Rights ballot initiative in Coos County, Oregon, challenging a liquefied (so-called "natural") gas pipeline. Oregonians go to the polls on May 16. More than $1 million dollars has been donated or spent to [...]
Oregon Public Radio reports on various Community Rights campaign efforts unfolding across Oregon counties. Voters in Oregon's Coos County are considering a May ballot measure that would block the Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas project. The measure is a product of the community-rights movement, which broadly aims to give local communities final say over corporate [...]
A Blog Posting by Kai Huschke of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from May 3, 2017. Proponents of “small” government are making headway: 29 states have signed on to calling for a constitutional convention. Thirty-four states trigger such a gathering. Behind the controversial efforts are ALEC and the Koch Brothers, well known for supporting corporate interests at [...]
On April 18, 2017, the Wisconsin (so-called) Department of Natural Resources and the Army Corps of Engineers held a shared public hearing in Tomah, Wisconsin to hear (and then to ignore) public testimony on the proposed destruction of a significant wetland to make way for a frac sand mining operation. Katie Groves, who lives in [...]