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<FONT FACE="Times, Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>Some updates from elsewhere! <BR>
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GRANT TOWNSHIP, P</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE="1"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:9pt'><FONT COLOR="#505963">A: Yesterday<B>, Grant Township, P</B>A, joined the growing Community Rights movement. The Township Board of Supervisors unanimously adopted a CELDF-drafte<B>d Community Bill of Rights Ordinan</B>ce banning frack wastewater injection wells as a violation of community and nature’s rights – elevating the community’s rights over corporate “rights.” Clic</FONT><FONT COLOR="#3800EE"><U>k he</U></FONT><FONT COLOR="#505963">re to read more</FONT><FONT COLOR="#3D00FF"><B>.<BR>
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COLORA</B></FONT><FONT COLOR="#505963">DO: The Colorado Community Rights Network (CO<B>C</B>RN) successfully stopped the gas industry from blocking their CELDF-draft<B>ed Community Rights statewide citizens’ initiat</B>ive. The Colorado Supreme Court recently approved of the initiative moving forward. Now, the COCRN and its partners are collecting signatures to qualify initiative #75 for the November ballot. Learn mo</FONT><FONT COLOR="#3800EE"><U>re h</U></FONT><FONT COLOR="#505963">er</FONT><FONT COLOR="#3D00FF"><B>e.<BR>
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YOUNGSTOWN,</B></FONT><FONT COLOR="#505963"> OH: Residents<B> of Youngstown,</B> OH, concerned about fracking and related activities, launched their fou<B>rth Community Rights Charter Amendment campaign for the November ba</B>llot. The CELDF-drafted Amendment bans fracking and injection wells within the City. Inspired by the increasing number of votes they are obtaining with each campaign – despite the industry-backed opposition – residents are determined to join the more than 150 communities across the country who have adopted Community Rights la</FONT><FONT COLOR="#3D00FF"><B>ws.<BR>
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MORA COUNTY</B></FONT><FONT COLOR="#505963">, NM: CELDF’s wor<B>k in Mora Count</B>y, NM, is in the spotligh<B>t in Outside Mag</B>azine. Mora is being sued by the oil and gas industry to overturn the county’s Community Bill of Rights Ordinance banning fracking and all hydrocarbon extract<B>ion. Corporations are claiming their constitutional “rights” supersede the community’s rig</B>hts. CELDF is assisting Mora County to defend its Ordinance. C</FONT><FONT COLOR="#3800EE"><U>lick</U></FONT><FONT COLOR="#505963"> here to read mo</FONT><FONT COLOR="#3D00FF"><B>re.<BR>
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COMMUNITY RIGHTS PAP</B></FONT><FONT COLOR="#505963">ER #2: CELDF’s Community Rights Papers continue to explore the growing Community Rights Movement. This second of the series is on corporate propaganda, revealing the language we embrace in our lexicon that blinds us from the harm that is actually happening – and how communities today are seeing through the propaganda as they confront the reality of environmental devastation in their neighborhoods. Read the second paper </FONT><FONT COLOR="#3800EE"><B>here: A Celebration of NIMBY – “Not in my Backyard, not in ANY Back</B></FONT><FONT COLOR="#505963">yard!”<BR>
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