This original article by David DeWitt appeared in The Athens News, June 28, 2017. For the third year in a row, the Athens County Bill of Rights Committee will seek to place the question of turning the county into a charter form of government before voters in November. MORE...
This original article by Lane County Community Rights appeared in The News Guard June 22, 2017. A day after the vote was certified that the voters of Lincoln County had adopted Measure 21-177 - ban on aerial spray of pesticides to protect health rights - a lawsuit was filed challenging the people’s will. The original complaint, [...]
Lincoln County passes a ballot measure banning the aerial spraying of pesticides This original article by Meerah Powell appeared in the, EugeneWeekly.Com on June 15, 2017 On May 30, Lincoln County passed ballot measure 21-177, a measure banning the aerial spraying of pesticides, making it the first county in the nation to do so. A [...]
This original editorial by John C. Lamb appeared in the, Daily Camera on June 8, 2017 Lafayette Mayor Christine Berg was not "an overseer of Lafayette's Climate Bill of Rights and Protections" as was printed in the Camera. In fact, she led the way for the Lafayette City Council to gut the bill and pass [...]
This original article by Jan Morice appeared in. Cleveland.Com on May 31, 2017 CLEVELAND, Ohio - Years before cleveland.com conceived its Western Reserve project to push for fair representation in northern Ohio, a grassroots group drafted its own declaration of self-governance to launch a fight for local control. "We declare," the Columbus Declaration states, "that the [...]
Grant Township, Pennsylvania, population 741, has became the front line of a radical new environmental movement – and they're not backing down. Rolling Stone magazine's first-ever major story about the Community Rights movement, with a focus on the courageous residents of Grant Township, Pennsylvania, who are continuing to make national history as they defend their right to [...]
This article by Simon Davis-Cohen originally appeared in DeSmog Blog. Two weeks ahead of an Oregon county special election, backers of the multi-billion dollar Jordan Cove Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project are spending an additional $236,500 to prevent that vote from halting the proposed fossil fuel project. That’s on top of the $359,000 the LNG project’s [...]
A new documentary film about the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, 'We the People 2.0', was publicly screened in Portland, Oregon. The event was hosted by David Delk, a leader of the local chapters of both Alliance for Democracy and Move To Amend. Nancy Ward and Paul Cienfuegos were invited to talk and answer audience questions [...]
This editorial by Cliff Willmeng originally appeared in the, Daily Camera on May 11, 2017 In the life-and-death, high-stakes game of oil and gas drilling, the Boulder County commissioners officially laid their cards on the table in a Daily Camera guest opinion published last Sunday ("Lack of local control over oil and gas frustrating, difficult," [...]
Oregon Public Radio reports on various Community Rights campaign efforts unfolding across Oregon counties. Voters in Oregon's Coos County are considering a May ballot measure that would block the Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas project. The measure is a product of the community-rights movement, which broadly aims to give local communities final say over corporate [...]