Entries of interest tagged with: rights of nature

CELDF 11-5-14 Election Update: Community Rights Fracking Bans

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Martin

From: Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CEDLF), 11-5-14: Election results are in for our communities – please join us in celebrating the following wins for Community Rights: ATHENS, OH: With 78% of the vote, Athens, OH, residents overwhelmingly adopted a … more →

PA Judge: Corporations Are Not “Persons”

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Martin

A New Civil Rights Movement: Liberating Our Communities from Corporate Control Pennsylvania judge holds that corporations are not “persons” under the Pennsylvania Constitution By Thomas Alan Linzey, Esq., Executive Director, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund March 28, 2013—To protect small … more →

Community Bill of Rights Strategy

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Martin

From CELDF, 11/8/12: Three communities banned shale gas drilling and fracking on Election Day, Nov 6, 2012, adopting Community Bill of Rights charter amendments. Mansfield and Broadview Heights, OH, and Ferguson Township, PA, asserted their rights to clean air and … more →

Boksenbaum: ‘Strategies for Change’

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Martin

Three recent newsletters discuss their organization’s perspectives on how to bring about change. One talks about nonviolent direct action, another about securing rights via home rule charters and constitutions, and the third about achieving change goals via the development of … more →