“We have seen this beautiful piece of the planet called Sonoma County be governed by forces and economic theories that extract resources from the earth while extracting labor and livelihood from the people who create its beauty. We have seen…
“It is our legislative determination that certain corporate activities are detrimental to our rights, health, safety, and welfare. These activities include but are not limited to: the runoff from commercial use of fertilizers, the intentional or unintentional dumping of toxic…
WWW meeting notes on Land Use policies in Sonoma County. Thank you Judith for some great notes. When scoping meetings for the General Plan and Local Coastal Plan start we will notify everyone and have a follow up meeting/forum on…
This week, a federal judge in California dismissed over 200 claims in a dangerous lawsuit that could have stifled free speech rights of environmental and social justice activists. Resolute Forest Products, one of Canada’s biggest logging companies, tried to…
Baltimore Becomes First Big U.S. City to Ban Water Privatization Baltimore City paves the way for how cities across the country can protect their water systems from the risks and costs of corporate control. water systems from the risks and…
Corporations have more rights than the community: “Without this, we just have to wait until the harm happens and then we get vocal and ask for cleanup,” says Markie Miller of Toledoans for Safe Water. “We want to be able…
CELDF: This fall, an investigative journalism probe revealed the lengths the corporate chemical industry is going to undermine Community Rights – specifically targeting active communities, including Lincoln County, Oregon. There, in 2017, our partners adopted the first rights-based ban on…
” “We the people are following laws written by corporations for their benefit. It’s greed,” says O’Dell. “They’re using our communities as resource colonies,” she added. https://www.alternet.org/local-peace-economy/can-community-rights-save-great-lakes Local Peace Economy Here’s How Community Rights Could Help Save the Great Lakes…
Tom, it’s called the Community Bill of Rights/Rights of Nature and over 200 communities across our country have begun this movement with the help of CELDF. See: https://celdf.org for more information. Their mission: The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)…
CELDF : Pennsylvania Township Bans Corporate Industrial Farming Community Enacts Law to Protect Family Farms and Its Environment Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Chad Nicholson, PA Community Organizer 207-541-3649 chad@celdf.org TODD TOWNSHIP, HUNTINGDON COUNTY, PA: Last…
“Growing numbers of New Hampshire communities are forced to host parasitic special interest projects such as high voltage transmission lines, oil and gas infrastructure, water withdrawals for resale, landfills, and other harms. They face a structure of law and government…
SCOTUS: If money is free speech, then lack of money is lack of free speech! Officials opposed claim citizens can ask their representatives to do the work….well that’ll never happen after Citizens United….money talks now and corporations have plenty. “Representative…
Where in the Constitution does it say corporations have more rights than people? Who is in charge, citizens or corporations? What federal law requires me to eat dirty air, drink polluted water or have disease so corporations can profit? ” “….An increasing number…
WWW supports the rights of community’s to protect their health, welfare and safety for now and future generations. If money is free speech, lack of money is lack of free speech. Corporations/special interests should benefit the communities they are in. When our…
Is Community Bill of Rights/Rights of Nature push back what we need to counter to corporate oligarchy? We’ve seen the current administration allow killing of slumbering bear cubs, roll back of Migratory Bird Act for oil interests, opening of our…
Tired of special interests infecting your local government and “harvesting” your community’s resources for their profit? Community Bill of Rights/Rights of Nature may be your answer. Over 200 communities have said YES, we can do it! Right of local community…
