IN AN ATTEMPT TO INTIMIDATE US AND SILENCE THE RIGHTS OF NATURE MOVEMENT, THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS THREATENED SANCTIONS AGAINST OUT LAWSUIT, COLORADO RIVER V. COLORADO. This press release was posted on Deep Green Resistance News Service's website, November 28, 2017. Editor’s note: The first Rights of Nature lawsuit in the United States, Colorado River v. [...]
This press release from the Deep Green Resistance Southwest Coalition, November 28, 2017. Editor’s note: The first Rights of Nature lawsuit in the United States, Colorado River v. Colorado, was filed September 25, 2017, in Denver, Colorado. The full text of the complaint can be found here. by Deep Green Resistance Southwest Coalition Denver, CO – The Colorado [...]
Oregon has its first-ever local Community Rights ordinance win - in a rural conservative-leaning county on the central coast. The Citizens for a Healthy County campaign to ban aerial spraying of pesticides received nothing but opposition from their local Newport government and from their elected county government, and they were massively outspent by a corporate [...]
A Press Release from the Oregon Community Rights Network, from April 21, 2017. Media Contact: Mary Geddry <marygeddry@gmail.com> 541-551-1492 http://www.oregoncommunityrights.org/ Corvallis, Oregon: The citizen-led petitioning initiative effort to amend the Oregon constitution to secure the Right of Local Community Self Government has been cleared by a Marion County circuit court judge to gather signatures for [...]
A Press Release from the Ohio Community Rights Network (OHCRN), from July 15, 2016. Last summer, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted claimed “unfettered authority” to block county charter initiatives banning fracking. Dozens of residents in four counties collected more than 12,000 signatures of people who wanted to vote on the measures. The Ohio Supreme [...]
On April 28, 2015, Kim Kann, resident of Conestoga Township, Lancaster County, PA, was arrested at a public Township meeting for attempting to clarify misinformation spread by speakers at the Township-sanctioned event. Her crime? Correcting factual inaccuracies put forward by the forum’s speakers. ..... To read the complete statement, click HERE. The Pennsylvania Community Rights [...]
