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Grant Funding for Dignified Solutions

Jul 7, 2019 | Coos Commons, Right to Shelter

Coos Commons Protection Council (CCPC) is pleased to announce the Negley Flinn Charitable Foundation has provided $20,000 “to provide dignified services based on compassion, equity and respect to disenfranchised Coos County residents so that they may access individual and community services to meet their basic human needs so that they may live a healthier and more productive lives.”

We won’t stop Jordan Cove unless and until

Jul 3, 2019 | Community Rights

Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency. It means you are essentially powerless. -...

Rights of Nature

Sep 1, 2015 | Community Rights, Rights of Nature

…the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and similar state laws – legalize environmental harms by regulating how much pollution or destruction of nature can occur under law. Rather than preventing pollution and environmental destruction, our environmental laws instead codify it. In addition, under commonly understood terms of preemption, once these activities are legalized by federal or state governments, local governments are prohibited from banning them.

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OREGON

Lincoln County passes bill of rights for the Siletz Watershed

Jul 19, 2019 | Oregon Community Rights, Rights of Nature

Tired of being told they can’t say NO to harmful aerial spraying of poisonous herbicides and pesticides the citizens of Lincoln County voted to grant the Siletz Watershed personhood. Since it”s adoption in 2017 no harmful aerial spraying has occured in Lincoln County

Rate of Change – Kai Huschke & Pattie Gouveia

Jan 16, 2018 | Oregon Community Rights, Podcasts

NATIONAL

Ohio Legislature Bans Rights of Nature Enforcement

Jul 20, 2019 | National Community Rights

“When peoples’ movements work to expand rights, we see legislative efforts to stop them,” says the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund’s (CELDF) organizer Tish O’Dell. “It is a pattern that has been repeated over and over. In recent years when LGBTQ+ marriage equality was gaining momentum, reactionary states began to ban it. Today, it is the Ohio legislature, desperate to stop another expansion of rights. This won’t work either. The Ohio legislature is on the wrong side of history – the Rights of Nature train has already left the station.”