This 49 minute interview with Thomas Linzey happened on October 28th, 2018. This interview can be listened to and downloaded at the Progressive Radio Network, Deep Green Resistance Blogspot, and YouTube. Clicking on the highlighted label will take you to the respective media outlet. Thomas Linzey is the executive director and an attorney for the [...]
This article by Sarah Elms appeared in The Blade, October 24th, 2018. Citizens behind the Lake Erie Bill of Rights initiative are keeping the pressure on Toledo City Council to send their proposal back to the Lucas County Board of Elections for reconsideration. About 20 people stood outside One Government Center ahead of city council’s [...]
This article by Tom Henry appeared in The Toledo Blade, October 18th, 2018. Citizens behind the initiative known as the Lake Erie Bill of Rights are calling upon Toledo City Council to do for them what it did for the Keep the Jail Downtown Toledo group, and send their proposal back to the Lucas County [...]
This open letter written by the Columbus Community Bill of Rights (CCBOR) citizen group was posted on Facebook, October 9th, 2018. The letter was written after the Ohio Supreme Court recently blocked their extraordinary efforts to put their Community Bill of Rights in front of the Columbus, Ohio voters on the November, 2018 ballot. Dear [...]
This editorial by Douglas Darrell, a New Hampshire Community Rights Network (NHCRN) board member, was published on Fosters.com, October 9th, 2018. ll people are born with inalienable rights — the right to practice one’s chosen religion, to exercise free speech, etc. These rights define our personhood and cannot be transferred from person to person; they [...]
This article by Lauren Lindstrom appeared in The Toledo Blade, October 5th, 2018. The Ohio Supreme Court on Friday again ruled against petitioners seeking to put a Lake Erie Bill of Rights on the November ballot in Toledo, marking the second time in as many days that the state’s highest judicial body has opposed the [...]
This article by Beth Burger appeared in The Columbus Dispatch, September 30, 2018. The Ohio Supreme Court is being asked to reconsider whether a proposal to ban oil and natural gas extraction and waste disposal in Columbus should go on the Nov. 6 ballot. Last month, the Franklin County Board of Elections denied the environmental [...]
Organizers in Toledo work to save their drinking water. This article by Valerie Vande Panne was published on Alternet, September 27th, 2018. Imagine for a moment, putting the rights of nature into public policy: Your town charter, your state constitution, or even federal law. Imagine, for a moment, giving the Great Lakes—the world’s largest source [...]
Residents in Columbus and Toledo are being told they don’t have the authority to vote to protect their drinking water this November. This article by Simon Davis-Cohen appeared in The Progressive, September 25, 2018. Markie Miller, an organizer from Toledo, Ohio, has been working for more than two years to pass a Lake Erie Bill of [...]
Voting rights and Lake Erie disregarded as justices dispute technicalities A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from September 24, 2018. TOLEDO, OH: On Friday, the Ohio Supreme Court blocked from the November ballot a Toledo citizen’s initiative. The Lake Erie Bill of Rights (LEBOR) would have recognized the right of Lake Erie to be [...]
