This 1 minute audio and text news story by Nick Evans was posted on WOSU Public Media's website on August 24th, 2018. Columbus Ohio -- The Franklin County Board of Elections has rejected the "Columbus Community Bill of Rights," a ballot issue that would have banned fracking within city limits. Supporters of the initiative erupted [...]
One industry that’s growing in Pennsylvania: hog farming. 2018 has been a record year for the number of hogs produced in the state. But for some communities that’s not good news. In one Pennsylvania town, residents are trying to keep a new hog farm out. This article by Julie Grant appeared in The Allegheny Front, July 20th, [...]
This 42 minute interview with Community Rights attorney and leader Thomas Linzey was posted on WKNY Radio Kingston's website, July 15th, 2018. It can be downloaded and listened to HERE. Brief commentary by Community Rights media team member Curt Hubatch: I listened to this interview while delivering mail in rural northwestern Wisconsin the other day. [...]
This 30 minute audio interview with Thomas Linzey was posted on David Swanson's "Lets Try Democracy" website, June 12th, 2018. Thomas Linzey is an attorney and the Executive Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) – a nonprofit law firm that has provided free legal services to over five hundred local governments and [...]
This 15 minute audio interview with Merrily Mazza and Kai Huschka aired on the Jefferson Exchange, and was posted on the Jefferson Public Radio's website, May 22, 2018. It can be listened to HERE. A brief commentary by Community Rights US Media Team member Curt Hubatch: Cliff Willmeng once said of Merrily Mazza, his mother [...]
This recent interview was posted on May 20th, 2018. This 50 minute audio interview can be downloaded HERE or at YouTube. Brief Commentary about by Community Rights US Media Team member Curt Hubatch: This is Derrick Jensen's 6th Resistance Radio interview with Thomas Linzey going back to October 20th, 2013. Being a part-time rural letter carrier [...]
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 [...]
