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Ecosystem Files to Defend Legal Rights

First-in-the-nation action: Ecosystem files for intervention in lawsuit to defend own legal rights to exist and flourish - The Little Mahoning Watershed in Grant Township, PA, filed to intervene in a lawsuit in which PGE Corporation is claiming a corporate "right" to inject frack wastewater....

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CELDF In The News

Truthout: Challenging Bedrock Law: "Dillon's Rule" in Detroit and Beyond
12/27/2014 - As an entrenched legal doctrine stripping communities of their rights to local self-governance becomes more evident to growing numbers of communities, CELDF is partnering with many of those communities to challenge and change that doctrine.
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Record-Courier: Outside money influenced Kent ballot issue
12/26/2014 - Kent, OH, residents' Community Bill of Rights banning fracking lost by a slim margin in November. Today, they learn of large outside corporate spending to defeat their measure.
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The Bradford Era: Disputed injection well moving forward in Highland Township
12/25/2014 - Seneca Resources attempts to move forward with siting a fracking wasterwater injection well in Highland Township, PA. To do so would violate the Township's Community Bill of Rights banning injection wells, and residents insist on their right to make governing decisions within their community.
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Oregon Public Broadcasting: Benton County Voters Will Decide On GE Crop Ban Next Year
12/19/2014 - Residents of Benton County, OR, place a CELDF-drafted Food Bill of Rights on the ballot for May 2015, to protect community rights to local, sustainable food systems that are GMO-free.
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From Our Blog

Volatility: We Need GMO Abolition, Not Labeling
12/22/2014 - Blogger Russ reviews why labeling GMOs misses the point: People have a right to abolish GMOs - not just know whether or not their food contains them. He urges grassroots, Community Rights Movement building to achieve that end.
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MGX.com: Make no mistake, this is war
11/19/2014 - Blogger Magix reviews corporate onslaughts to advance their destruction - in this case, in Coos County, OR - and how communities are asserting their inalienable rights to protect themselves through enacting rights-based law.
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Written Word, Spoken Word: SWEPI v. Mora County: The Purple Haze of U.S. Judge James Oren Browning
11/13/2014 - Blogger Frances Madeson shares the surreal proceedings in the oral arguments of the SWEPI v. Mora County, NM, case. SWEPI is suing to overturn Mora County's Community Water Rights and Local Self-Governance Ordinance.
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Global Exchange's People to People Blog: Fracking Corporations Played the Democracy Game – Two Communities Set New Rules this Election
11/12/2014 - Growing numbers of communities - including Athens, OH, and Mendocino County, CA - banned fracking by asserting their inalienable right to make governing decisions, and elevating community rights above corporate claimed "rights" when they harm a community.
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