One-third of state legislature supports Community Rights Amendment; momentum building to advance rights A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from March 16, 2018. Yesterday, the New Hampshire House debated and voted on CACR19, the NH Community Rights Amendment, which received one-third of the legislators’ support. This is the first Community Rights state [...]
The NH Community Rights Amendment seeks to become Article 40. Right of Local, Community Self Government of our NH Bill of Rights. This press release on the New Hampshire Community Rights Amendments (CACR19) appeared on the New Hampshire Community Rights Network's (NCRN) website, March 16th, 2018. The NH Community Rights Amendment seeks to become Article 40. Right of Local, Community Self Government of our NH [...]
A Blog Posting by Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin and Tish O'Dell of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from March 14th, 2018. When does the right to own a gun carry more cultural and legal weight than the right of a community to collectively decide what safety means and how to create protected, healthy, and resilient communities? That is a [...]
This article by Elon Glucklich appeared in The Register-Guard, March 9th, 2108. A proposed ballot measure to ban the aerial spraying of herbicides across Lane County can’t proceed to a vote because it is too broadly written, a Lane County Circuit Court judge has ruled. The ruling by Judge Karsten Rasmussen on Wednesday said the [...]
This letter to the editor by Adam Tardif appeared on Fosters.com, February 23, 2018. On Feb. 6 the N.H. Community Rights Amendment, CACR 19, inspired so many supportive citizen testimonies that its House Municipal & County Government committee hearing ran 90 minutes rather than the scheduled 30. The following week, CACR 19 left its subcommittee [...]
Strong citizen support helps advance CACR19 to House M&CG committee A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from February 19th, 2018. CONCORD, NH: Last week, the New Hampshire Community Rights Amendment, CACR19, left House Municipal & County Government (M&CG) subcommittee with a 3-2 bi-partisan “ought-to-pass” recommendation. Community members from across the state attended [...]
This article recently appeared in the Columbus Free Press. Gubernatorial candidate Dennis Kucinich addressed the first town hall forum of the Progressive Democrats of America Central Ohio chapter on February 5. Kucinich emphasized that he is for universal health care and when in Congress had written HR 676 a Health Care for All bill, co-sponsored by [...]
This article by John Collins appeared in In These Times, February 8th, 2018. When you combine an economic system that requires constant growth in order to function, with a legal system that mistakes corporations for “people”—you inevitably wind up with a few extremely powerful corporations and a lot of powerless citizens. Furthermore, when that same [...]
Dennis Kucinich, in his campaign for the Ohio Governorship, stopped by Columbus, Ohio on February 5, 2018, and shared his support for the Ohio Community Rights Network's state constitutional amendment campaign. This 5" video discussion can be viewed HERE.
This press release by Annie Ropeik was published on New Hampshire Public Radio's website, February 5th, 2018. New Hampshire has put the brakes on the Northern Pass energy project for now, but some towns are still prepared to block it with local laws asserting their view on big utility development. Plymouth is the latest municipality to approve [...]
