Community Rights US Founder and Directory Paul Cienfuegos was interviewed on the Heart of Wellness Show (Listen HERE) on February 5th, 2019. This show airs on WDRT, 91.9 FM, Driftless Community Radio out of Virocqua, Wisconsin. Paul has been organizing Community Rights groups in the Driftless area for close to a decade now. Program description: On this [...]
…the people pressed on anyway, regardless of what the Court said…” A blog posting published by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from October 11, 2018. Young activists and organizers today study the civil rights movement. It’s our model for organizing. It’s our reference point for how to do it right. It defines the unofficial rules for [...]
This letter to the editor by Monica Christofili of the New Hampshire Community Rights Network (NHCRN) appeared on Fosters.com, September 20th, 2018. To the Editor: On Thursday, Sept. 27, from 6-8 p.m. at Epping’s public library, the people of New Hampshire can learn how to have a real say about Granite Bridge. Why would they [...]
“The arrogance of the human race – that we can continue to exhaust the planet that gives us life while avoiding any adverse consequences to our own survival – lies at the base of our current tragedy. The belief that endless economic growth is not only possible, but necessary for our daily lives, serves at [...]
"It's time to understand that the Community Rights movement is the movement that we've been waiting for – one not limited just to environmental issues, but one which can be used to advance indigenous rights, expand workplace rights, impose police accountability, challenge bank foreclosures, and establish rights to housing and healthcare. "Along the way, it [...]
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. [...]
The article below was originally published in DeSmog. Investigative journalism - such as this story by acclaimed Canadian scientist David Suzuki - purports to expose the latest corporate outrage, but ends up unintentionally burying deeper truths that the public urgently needs to understand if we are to ever end corporate control over us. Within the [...]
This article by David Dayen appeared in The Intercept, June 2nd, 2018. A brief commentary by Community Rights US founder and director Paul Cienfuegos: Many progressives assume that it’s those damn Republican-controlled state legislatures that keep passing one new preemptive law after another to stop local governments from protecting their community’s health, safety and welfare. [...]
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 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 [...]
