Council will also pick up decisions on new development rules and planning commissions This article by Anthony Hahn appeared in the Daily Camera, June 21st, 2018. Lafayette's City Council is scheduled to vote at its July 3 meeting on the proposed oil and gas regulations that were derailed Tuesday night by an anti-fracking protest, city spokeswoman [...]
This act of civil-disobedience occurred June 19th, 2018 at the City Council meeting in Lafayette, CO. This 42 minute video can be viewed at the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund's (CELDF) website HERE. In March 2017, Lafayette, CO, became the first municipality in the state to recognize a right to a healthy climate for people and nature, and [...]
This short article by Jackie Crea was posted on Denver7 June 19th, 2018. There is also a 90 second video clip embedded in the article. The fight to keep oil and gas out of Lafayette heated up Tuesday night after anti-fracking protesters shut down a city council meeting preventing a controversial vote. MORE...
'Activist: 'The vote to legalize drilling in (Lafayette) was shut down by the people tonight' This article by Anthony Hahn appeared in the Daily Camera, June 19th, 2018. An impromptu protest from anti-fracking activists on the floor of Lafayette's City Council meeting Tuesday forced officials to abruptly adjourn, suspending the leadership's planned vote to revamp the [...]
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 [...]
"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, [...]
For decades our laws have been a death sentence for the environment. Now, from the Amazon to Australia, the tide is turning This Op-ed by Mari Margil appeared in The Guardian, May 23, 2018. The Amazon rainforest is often called the earth’s lungs, and generates 20% of the world’s oxygen. Yet in the past half-century nearly [...]
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 Op-ed by Monica Christofili appeared on Fosters.com, May 7th, 2018. Newmarket, a small town in New Hampshire, is looking to join 11 other New Hampshire towns in adopting a rights-based ordinance. They've discovered the structure of law they live under is set up to protect neither them nor the landbase they live and depend [...]
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 [...]
