This article by Tom Henry appeared in The Toledo Blade, February 18th, 2019. Toledoans for Safe Water said at a news conference Monday that its proposed Lake Erie Bill of Rights is being smeared on radio advertisements by a Columbus-based firm with deep pockets. Markie Miller, Toledoans for Safe Water organizer, said Strategic Public Partners Group is “putting [...]
Recently Community Rights US Director and Founder Paul Cienfuegos attended the 2019 Farmers Union Convention in Appleton, Wisconsin held January 25-27. While there he had the opportunity to watch and listen to a panel discussion about monopolies, antitrust legislation, and how they affect farmers. After the convention a 54 minute video of the panel discussion was [...]
Watch New Hampshire State Representative Ellen Read (D) talk about the New Hampshire Community Rights Amendment (CACR 8) to those attending the Local Democracy Luncheon hosted by the New Hampshire Community Rights Network (NHCRN) HERE. The video is just over a minute long. To read an explanation of the NH Community Rights Amendment in plain [...]
Where Capitalism faces Rights of Nature, a community fights to keep Democracy alive. Invisible Hand, a Rights of Nature documentary, hasn't been released to the public yet. They do have a website where you can view the 3 minute trailer (which I highly recommend!), read more about the story behind the movie, and see where [...]
This article by John Thomason appeared in The Intercept, January 15th, 2019. Embeded in the article is the trailer to Astra Taylor's documentary titled, "What is Democracy." The trailer is 1 minute and 40 seconds. PLATO BELIEVED THAT a city ruled by the rich could not last. The rich would rule according to their interest in [...]
This article by Tom Henry appeared in The Toledo Blade, December 21st, 2018. The Lucas County Board of Elections has ended the months-long debate over Toledo’s other citizen-led ballot initiative from 2018 by doing the same for the proposed Lake Erie Bill of Rights as it did for the Keep the Jail Downtown Toledo’s initiative a month ago. Both [...]
This 3 minute video about Grant Township's resistance to having their water poisoned by Pennsylvania Gas and Electric (PGE) was published by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) on, December 17th, 2018. PGE wants to use the Township as a dumping ground by injecting fracking wastewater under the ground the citizens of Grant Township [...]
This touching 4 minute video and text about the work the San Juan Community Rights citizens group is doing to prevent more preventable deaths of the southern resident pod of the Salish Sea orcas can be accessed HERE. -- Beginning of text: There was rejoicing at the birth – the first in the family in [...]
This 7 minute video titled "The People vs The Corporate State" was published on YouTube by the Ohio Community Rights Network (OHCRN) on November 27th, 2018. Here is a description of the video: In 2012, after suffering over 90 oil/gas frack wells in the community of Broadview Heights, the residents finally said no more. They passed [...]
This 4 minute video featuring Danielle Allen was published in The Atlantic on November 2nd, 2018. If you get into the Community Rights movement it will not be long and you'll hear this fundamental principle: Governments are instituted to protect the health, safety, and welfare of individuals and communities. If they fail to do so [...]
