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New Community Rights Ordinance that bans 5G wireless locally, now available: “Right to A Sustainable Digital Infrastructure & Community Self-Government Ordinance”

A Rights-Based Ordinance to Protect the Health, Safety, and Welfare of Residents of [Town or County Name], [State Name] By Establishing A Bill of Rights; By Recognizing the Right to A Sustainable Digital Infrastructure, and By Prohibiting the Siting of High Frequency 5G Wireless** Projects That Violate the People’s Right to A Sustainable Digital Infrastructure. [...]

By |2020-02-05T12:51:11-08:00February 5th, 2020|Original Writings on Community Rights Topics, Right to Local, Community Self-Government|
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Miami New Times: Florida Republicans Are Banning Local Laws They Don’t Like, Report Warns

This article by Jerry Iannelli appeared in the Miami New Times on January 7th, 2020. In 2018, the City of Miami finally, after years and years of bellyaching and protest from residents, launched a pilot project to force developers in one tiny downtown neighborhood to include affordable-housing units in every building they construct henceforth. The move was [...]

By |2020-01-13T10:54:29-08:00January 13th, 2020|News Stories: State & Regional, Right to Local, Community Self-Government, State & Federal Preemption|
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Sierra Club Magazine: Nevertheless, They Persisted: How one small town in Pennsylvania is successfully fighting the fracked gas industry

This article by Aaron Skirboll about Grant Township's resistance to Pennsylvania General Energy (PGE) injecting fracking wastewater into abandoned wells in the township was published in Sierra Club magazine on December 17th, 2019. JUNE 3, 2014. Looking back, many residents of Grant Township, Pennsylvania, believe that was the day their fight against the state's powerful [...]

By |2020-01-12T11:54:18-08:00January 12th, 2020|Regulatory Agencies & Laws (Federal & State), Right to Local, Community Self-Government, Rights of Nature, State & Federal Preemption, Supreme Courts - Federal & State|
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Wisconsin: Town of Chicog Update

This Community Rights action update was written and posted by Curt Hubatch, Community Rights US Media Team Member. He is also the founding member of the Washburn County Community Rights Alliance (WCCRA). Five members of the Washburn County Community Rights Alliance (WCCRA) attended the November town meeting at the Chicog Town Hall the evening of [...]

By |2019-11-22T07:42:05-08:00November 22nd, 2019|Press Releases, Right to Local, Community Self-Government|
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Feeding the People: Community Rights and Chili

Reflections on Community Rights from Rural America is a monthly column by CR activist and organizer Curt Hubatch. Curt is an unschooling father of two young children and one young adult. Currently he works as a substitute rural letter carrier for the USPS. He lives in a cordwood house that he built with his wife, [...]

By |2019-11-23T11:47:46-08:00November 20th, 2019|Dillon's Rule, Original Writings on Community Rights Topics, Regulatory Agencies & Laws (Federal & State), Right to Local, Community Self-Government, Rights of Nature, Speeches & Presentations by Community Rights People, State & Federal Preemption|
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Anatomy of a STATE And Corporate Attack on a People’s Movement

This article was written and published by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund on October 23, 2019. Since its inception, a state-wide movement in Ohio has faced a state and corporate attack that amounts to concerted opposition from all branches of state government, corporate lobbies, private law firms, and both political parties. The entire repressive [...]

By |2019-11-18T10:12:12-08:00November 18th, 2019|Blogs from Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Original Writings on Community Rights Topics, Regulatory Agencies & Laws (Federal & State), Right to Local, Community Self-Government, Rights of Nature, State & Federal Preemption, State Community Rights Networks & their founding Declarations, Supreme Courts - Federal & State|
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Progressive wins in Virginia are limited as long as “Dillon’s Rule” is on the books

This article by Simon Davis-Cohen was published in the Scalawag on November 13, 2019. Last week’s elections delivered an overwhelming victory for progressives in Virginia, where Democrats solidified a majority in the General Assembly and candidates in local races followed suit. In Charlottesville, where the deadly white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally took place two [...]

By |2019-11-16T08:10:22-08:00November 16th, 2019|Dillon's Rule, Original Writings on Topics Relevant to the Community Rights Movement, Right to Local, Community Self-Government, Supreme Courts - Federal & State|
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Settlement Announced with Oil and Gas Industry Seeking Monetary Award: Ban Against Injection Wells Continues

Grant Township Stands Up to Intimidation Tactics This press release was published by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund on November 11, 2019.   MERCERSBURG, PA: An oil and gas industry lawsuit – seeking to override a community’s ban on frack waste injection wells, and simultaneously discipline the lawyers working to defend the community – has [...]

By |2019-11-16T08:30:56-08:00November 14th, 2019|Press Releases from Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Right to Local, Community Self-Government|
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Cities, Tribes Try a New Environmental Approach: Give Nature Rights

This article by Alex Brown was published on the Pew Charitable Trust website on October 30, 2019. When members of the White Earth band of Ojibwe in Minnesota take out their canoes to harvest wild rice, they’re gathering a source of nourishment and following a tradition that has connected them to the land for generations. [...]

By |2019-11-22T08:32:34-08:00October 30th, 2019|Indigenous Voices, News Stories: National & International, Right to Local, Community Self-Government, Rights of Nature|
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New Publication: Do It Yourself Community Rights

The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) recently published a do it yourself guide on how to advance Community Rights laws in your state. You can learn all about it and download it HERE! Description of the publication below. Are you interested in advancing Community Rights laws in your state? Community Rights includes Rights of [...]

By |2019-10-30T07:47:21-07:00October 30th, 2019|American Revolution & Our Two Federal Constitutions, Critiques of Existing Activism through a Community Rights Lens, Dillon's Rule, Regulatory Agencies & Laws (Federal & State), Right to Local, Community Self-Government, Rights of Nature, State & Federal Preemption, State Community Rights Networks & their founding Declarations, Supreme Courts - Federal & State|
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