Sidsel Overgaard of KUNM New Mexico's Community Powered Public Radio reports on Las Vegas, New Mexico's historic action to pass a Community Bill of Rights ordinance to protect their water and prohibit shale gas drilling and fracking.

CELDF's New England Community Organizer Gail Darrell is interviewed by "Bulldog" Brian Tilton on WTPL 107.7FM "The Pulse". In March, several New Hampshire communities brought forward Community Bills of Rights at Town Meeting to stop the Northern Pass project and create the sustainable communities they envision. Listen here for what happened.

Sidsel Overgaard of KUNM, New Mexico's Community Powered Public Radio, interviews CELDF's Thomas Linzey about elevating community rights and rights of nature above corporate "rights" to protect local communities and ecosystems.

CELDF's Executive Director Thomas Linzey is interviewed by Faren Dancer of KTRC 1260 AM "Unicopia Green Radio" on corporate "rights", and how communities are using their local municipal government to elevate community rights above those claimed by corporations.

Rose Alguilar, host of Your Call in San Francisco, CA on KALW 97.1FM, interviews CELDF's Executive Director Thomas Linzey and Global Exchange's Director of Community Organizing Shannon Biggs about how communities can organize to change local laws to protect themselves from corporate interests and create the communities they envision.

William Evans, host of KDNK Community Radio program Shifting Gears in Carbondale, CO, interviews CELDF's Associate Director Mari Margil on the structure of law we live under that limits us from asserting our rights to health and the rights of nature--and how we can assert those rights through a grassroots movement.

William Evans, host of KDNK Community Radio program Shifting Gears in Carbondale, CO, interviews CELDF's Executive Director Thomas Linzey on using municipal law-making to stop unwanted corporate projects and create the sustainable communities people envision.

William Evans, host of KDNK Community Radio program Shifting Gears in Carbondale, CO, interviews CELDF's Executive Director Thomas Linzey on using municipal law-making to stop unwanted corporate projects and create the sustainable communities people envision.

One surprise on Election Night was Spokane's so-called Community Bill of Rights, with only 115 votes separating the Yes and No columns. KXLY4's Kylee Cruz reports.

CELDF's local partner organization in Spokane, WA - Envision Spokane - is launching its ballot initiative campaign for a Community Bill of Rights with a series of videos. You can learn more about the campaign at www.envisionspokane.org.

CELDF's local partner organization in Spokane, WA - Envision Spokane - is launching its ballot initiative campaign for a Community Bill of Rights with a series of videos. You can learn more about the campaign at www.envisionspokane.org.

CELDF's local partner organization in Spokane, WA - Envision Spokane - is launching its ballot initiative campaign for a Community Bill of Rights with a series of videos. You can learn more about the campaign at www.envisionspokane.org.

CELDF's local partner organization in Spokane, WA - Envision Spokane - is launching its ballot initiative campaign for a Community Bill of Rights with a series of videos. You can learn more about the campaign at www.envisionspokane.org.

CELDF's Executive Director Thomas Linzey speaks in Pittsburgh in June 2011 on how communities are exercising their right to local self government as they face the threat of natural gas drilling and the practice known as "fracking." He spoke at a conference co-sponsored by CELDF and the City of Pittsburgh.

Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of CELDF, participates in a panel discussion on the history and development of the rights of nature, hosted by The Pachamama Alliance.

This audio piece is of Ben Price from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund speaking to residents of the Sullivan County Catskills in Eldred, New York. Ben Price explains how communities can fight corporate power with a new legal weapon.

Plain Township, Ohio is considering adoption of a local measure modeled on the Pittsburgh / Buffalo gas drilling ordinance. Discussion of the measure by Township Trustee Lou Giavasis on a radio program last week caused state Senator Kirk Schuring to back out of last night's meeting, pull the state regulatory agency reps, industry reps, and two State Representatives with him, announce that the Township meeting was canceled, and schedule a separate simultaneous meeting nearby. The heat of public criticism grew so great that Sen Shuring canceled his attempt to hijack the Township meeting, which proceeded as scheduled - without the drilling advocates.