This 1 minute and 15 second video about Lincoln County Community Rights successfully banning the aerial spraying of pesticides and other poisons appeared on Redacted Tonight on September 26th, 2018. This video can be watched HERE. Brief commentary by Community Rights US Media Team Member Curt Hubatch: I found this video posted on the New [...]
This short VIDEO clip (3 min. 24 sec.) about the Rights of Nature aired on WGZR-TV, an NBC affiliate out of Buffalo New York. It looks like the Rights of Nature movement has found its way to a mainstream media outlet!
Watch and read (also below) Charlotte Owen's 3-minute testimony in front of the Columbus City Council HERE. This testimony was given on July 30th, 2018, and was published a day later on YouTube. Columbus City Council Speech By Charlotte Owens 7/30/18 “President Hardin and members of City Council, I am here today to speak in [...]
This act of civil-disobedience occurred June 19th, 2018 at the City Council meeting in Lafayette, CO. This 42 minute video can be viewed at the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund's (CELDF) website HERE. In March 2017, Lafayette, CO, became the first municipality in the state to recognize a right to a healthy climate for people and nature, and [...]
This short article by Jackie Crea was posted on Denver7 June 19th, 2018. There is also a 90 second video clip embedded in the article. The fight to keep oil and gas out of Lafayette heated up Tuesday night after anti-fracking protesters shut down a city council meeting preventing a controversial vote. MORE...
This recent interview was posted on May 20th, 2018. This 50 minute audio interview can be downloaded HERE or at YouTube. Brief Commentary about by Community Rights US Media Team member Curt Hubatch: This is Derrick Jensen's 6th Resistance Radio interview with Thomas Linzey going back to October 20th, 2013. Being a part-time rural letter carrier [...]
This 3 minute video about Lane County, Oregon Community Rights activist Michelle Holman appeared in The Register-Guard, April 19th, 2018. The short video can be downloaded and viewed HERE. Katie Lyon writes this about the Lane County Community Rights activist: Michelle Holman’s activism began many years ago at the University of Oregon during the Vietnam War. [...]
This event took place on March 5th, 2018 at a scheduled city council meeting in Lafayette, Colorado. This text can be read, and video can be viewed HERE. Mr. Linzey offers his insights on defending the City’s Climate Bill of Rights. Sound begins approximately 17 minutes, Q&A approximately 36 minutes.
Community Rights US Founding Director Paul Cienfuegos participated in the 3rd Regional Gathering in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, held on March 4th, 2018. 50 people attended from more than a dozen counties. An archive of audio, video, and text of this extraordinary full-day event's sessions and other group discussions will soon [...]
This event was posted on the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund's website, February 28, 2018. What’s happening? Last spring, in the City of Lafayette, CO, residents took a stand to protect themselves from the unrelenting fossil fuel extraction threatening their health, safety, and welfare. The City Council adopted the first CELDF-drafted Climate Bill of Rights [...]
