Secretary of State’s objections to petition denied; judge gives go ahead for signature collection. A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from April 25, 2017. SALEM, OREGON: More than one year ago, the Oregon Secretary of State denied petition circulation of a state constitutional amendment that would secure the right of local community [...]
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 [...]
This public event was hosted by East Boulder County United in Boulder, Colorado. Presenters included Merrily Mazza, Cliff Willmeng, and Thomas Linzey. A Q&A followed their presentations. Merrily Mazza is President of the Colorado Community Rights Network. Cliff Willmeng is President of the National Community Rights Network, and lives in Lafayette, Colorado. Thomas Linzey is [...]
This video interview with New Hampshire Community Rights organizer Michelle Sanborn was posted, March 29, 2016. This 47 minute video can be viewed HERE. On the morning of Thursday the 18th of February, the NH Community Rights Amendment CACR 14 was scheduled for a public legislative hearing with the House Legislative Administration Committee. This was [...]
On February 8, 2015, in the middle of a classic Midwest blizzard, 49 local Community Rights activists from about a dozen counties across rural Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, met for a full day in Whitehall, Wisconsin to educate themselves, to network with like minded people, and to build community. This was the informal network's second [...]
Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, gave a speech at the Colorado Community Rights Network's State Assembly on August 30, 2014. Linzey spoke about the challenges and successes of local communities asserting their rights to local governance. The Colorado Community Rights Network helps communities create their own local laws to define and [...]
Signed in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, February 20, 2010. We declare: That the political, legal, and economic systems of the United States allow, in each generation, an elite few to impose policy and governing decisions that threaten the very survival of human and natural communities; That the goal of those decisions is to concentrate wealth and [...]
This article by Jane Anne Morris (DemocracyThemePark.org) was originally published in the Fall 1997 edition of Earth Island Journal. It’s the best of times, if you’re a rapacious corporation with money. It’s the worst of times, if you’re a citizen with democratic pretensions, or a living thing. Or a rock. Especially if you contain ore. Using [...]