Residents ban unsustainable energy projects at Special Town Meeting A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from February 1, 2018. Last night, residents at a Special Town Meeting in Plymouth, NH, voted 132 to 19 to adopt their Community Rights-Based Ordinance for a Sustainable Energy Future. The ordinance asserts their right to clean [...]
This 46 minute video interview was posted on the National Community Rights Network (NCRN) website, January 31st, 2018. Tom Groover interviews New Hampshire community organizers Michelle Sanborn, Monica Christofill and Douglas Darrell. Michelle and Monica are organizers with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), and Douglas is a Board member of the NHCRN and the NCRN. Michelle begins [...]
This 52 second video of Rep. Ellen Read (D) urging others to support the New Hampshire Community Rights Amendment (CACR19) can be viewed HERE.
This letter to the editor by Tejasinha Sivalingam appeared in The Laconia Daily Sun, January 25, 2018. The Ashland deliberative session on Feb. 3 will be of historic significance due to its consideration of a petitioned warrant article for a Community Rights Based Ordinance (CRBO). Ashland’s deliberation on this Community Rights Based Ordinance is part [...]
Measure would secure the right of local community self-government A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from January 23, 2018. As communities across the country face growing efforts by state governments to block residents from governing themselves, New Hampshire residents are advancing a state constitutional amendment to secure that unalienable right. The proposed [...]
This alert was published on January 19, 2018 by the Ohio Community Rights Network. House Joint Resolution 5 (HJR 5), introduced in fall 2017 in both house of the Ohio General Assembly, would dramatically change the already-difficult process to amend the Ohio Constitution and is stealthily making its way through the Ohio General Assembly. MORE...
This letter to the editor by Peter A. White appeared on Fosters.com, December 21, 2017. People have always risen up to right the wrongs inflicted by the ruling elite. That time has come again, and the people of New Hampshire are using Community Rights to end harmful exploitation of our communities. MORE....
A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from December 7th, 2017. Right of local community self-government advances Yesterday, the Ohio Ballot Board unanimously approved two proposed state constitutional amendments, determining they each meet the single subject requirement. A legal representative of the people, community members, and several members of the Ohio Community Rights [...]
This network is trying to change the fabric of Ohio’s constitution to allow for more direct democracy. This article by Sarah Horne was published in The New Political, December 7, 2017. The Ohio Community Rights Network (OHCRN), the Athens Bill of Rights Committee and the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) have been supporting an [...]
Ohio activists are joining ballot efforts around the country that supporters say are aimed at restoring rights to communities to challenge a growing list of corporate incursions. The oil-and-gas industry says their amendment would devastate Ohio's economy. This article by Julie Carr Smyth was published in US News and World Report, November 29, 2017. Activists [...]
