Donald Trump wants to destroy the 14th Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship. But before he sought to eliminate it outright, his elite predecessors mangled, misread, and misused the amendment in the service of capital. This article by Manisha Sinha appeared in JACOBIN magazine, December 4th, 2018. Donald Trump’s unconstitutional threat to decree an end to [...]
This editorial by the editorial board of The Toledo Blade appeared in said paper, December 4th, 2018. -- Toledoans for Safe Water gathered petition signatures and have fought a legal battle to get the issue before voters after years of frustration over inaction by state and federal environmental regulators. They’ve tried to get the U.S. [...]
Nature has been treated in law as property, and exploited. But there is growing legal recognition that nature has rights, and affirming these is essential to both a healthy environment and human rights. This article by Mari Margil appeared on Open Global Rights, November 14th, 2018. The human right to a healthy environment is gaining [...]
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 [...]
…the people pressed on anyway, regardless of what the Court said…” A blog posting published by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from October 11, 2018. Young activists and organizers today study the civil rights movement. It’s our model for organizing. It’s our reference point for how to do it right. It defines the unofficial rules for [...]
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 [...]
