This Guest OpEd by Paul Cienfuegos appeared in The Decorah Newspaper, June 15th, 2018. Brief note by Community Rights US media team member Curt Hubatch: The title that Paul proposed to the editors at The Decorah Newspaper was, "Can we stop large corporations from interfering in our local elections? Yes we can!” They did not include [...]
This Op-Ed by Greg Coleridge appeared on Op-Ed News.com, June 4th, 2018. Rising anger against the seemingly omnipotent power of corporations to dictate nearly every aspect of society has yielded predictable pushback from corporations and their minions (i.e. human, not small yellow creatures) in government. Laws against mass protests and stronger regulatory protections and increasing [...]
"A Phoenix from the Ashes," an article about resurrecting a constitutional Right of Local, Community Self-Government in the name of environmental sustainability, was published in the Arizona Journal of Environmental Law and Policy (AJELP) back in January of 2018. More details and links below. CELDF’s Executive Director Thomas Linzey, Esq. and attorney Daniel E. Brannen, [...]
This article by Cliff Willmeng originally appeared on the Willmeng for Grassroots Power webpage, May 26th, 2018. Since 2012 the Lafayette City Council has fought against any significant effort threatening to disrupt oil and gas drilling operations. This is demonstrated by the actions of politicians in Lafayette throughout the course of the ongoing campaign to [...]
A Blog Posting by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), from May 16, 2018. According to recent polls, only 20% of Americans know how many U.S. Senators there are, and only one in seven young Americans could identify either Iraq or Afghanistan on a world map. A majority of Americans were unable to name more than one [...]
On April 29, 2018, an extraordinary celebration place on the shores of the North Oconee River in Athens, Georgia. It was organized by the North Oconee River Project, a team of artists and scientists working towards some very lofty goals. Much earlier, in the Spring of 2017, University of Georgia grad student Carla Cao had [...]
This article by Simon Davis-Cohen appeared in The Progressive, April 24th, 2018. A brief commentary by Community Rights US media team member Curt Hubatch: Let's not forget that we do have the right as The Sovereign to enact and enforce laws locally to protect our health, safety, and welfare. And, as this insightful article by [...]
A Blog Posting by Thomas Linzey of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from April 14, 2018. A brief commentary by Community Rights US media team member Curt Hubatch: Allowing a few hands at the top to determine what our communities are going to look like for our children and grandchildren hasn't worked well up to this point. [...]
This article by Simon Davis-Cohen appeared in The Progressive, April 5th, 2018. The Republican Party and corporate-backed groups like the Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council have made “state preemption” of local political and economic powers a top priority for decades. Left-leaning electoral movements have been sluggish in their response. Despite Occupy and other mobilizations against [...]
This article by Sandra Postel appeared on the Post Carbon Institute's website, March 28, 2018. Do rivers have a right to water? As dams and diversions deplete flows, it’s a question environmental advocates and legal scholars are asking more and more. Over the last decade, rivers in Ecuador and New Zealand have won legal rights, and [...]
