<html><head><base href="x-msg://9/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello all…good to know about!!<div>Carrie<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><br></span></div><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" topmargin="0" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; "><a href="http://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/_public/hasFriend.asp?aacwc=371564483420592040098128949117&email=cdurkee%40mcn.org" target="_blank"><img alt="Forward this newsletter to a friend" border="0" src="http://www.thedatabank.com/images/fwd.gif"></a> <a href="http://out02.thedatabank.com/?r=MTAwMw0KSjE2MzMxMC1DNDQ4LU0xMjg5NDktLWNlbGRmYWRtDQozNzE1NjQ0ODM0MjA1OTIwNDAwOTgxMjg5NDkxMTcNCjhiMDAwMDAwN2FkOGU0DQpodHRwczovL3d3dy50aGVkYXRhYmFuay5jb20vZHBnLzQ0OC9wZXJzb25hbDIuYXNwP2Zvcm1pZD1uZXdzJmFhY3djPTM3MTU2NDQ4MzQyMDU5MjA0MDA5ODEyODk0OTExNw0KbmV3cw0KY2R1cmtlZUBtY24ub3Jn" target="_blank">Sign Up to receive CELDF news and information</a></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="background-color: rgb(46, 86, 141); position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td><br><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; padding-top: 10px; border-collapse: collapse; "><tbody><tr><td><div align="center" style="text-align: left; "><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600"><tbody><tr style="background-color: rgb(253, 254, 254); "><td><div align="center" style="text-align: left; "><img alt="" border="0" height="106" src="http://www3.thedatabank.com/hm/448/image/CELDF_letterhead.png" width="500"></div></td></tr><tr><td><div align="center" style="text-align: left; "><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(80, 89, 99); padding-top: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; "><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Dear Carrie,</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Since 2010, CELDF has been working with our partner communities to create<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>statewide<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://out02.thedatabank.com/?r=MTAwMw0KSjE2MzMxMC1DNDQ4LU0xMjg5NDktLWNlbGRmYWRtDQozNzE1NjQ0ODM0MjA1OTIwNDAwOTgxMjg5NDkxMTcNCjhiMDAwMDAwN2FkOGU0DQpodHRwOi8vY2VsZGYub3JnLy0xLTk3DQpDUk5MaW5rDQpjZHVya2VlQG1jbi5vcmc%3d" target="_blank">Community Rights Networks</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(CRNs)</strong>, joining together residents, local governments, and grassroots organizations to advance community rights to local self-governance, to a healthy environment, and to sustainable food, energy, and other systems.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Today, we have CRNs in P<strong>ennsylvania, New Hampshire, Ohio, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington</strong>. We are very pleased to help these Networks to launch the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>National Community Rights Network (NCRN)</strong>, joining together communities and states across the country to build a movement for community and nature's rights.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Below is a press release from the NCRN Board of Directors. Please join us in celebrating this historic event!</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Thank you for your interest in our work. We rely on your support so we can continue assisting the growing numbers of communities asking us for help, and building a Community Rights Movement. Please consider making a donation today at <a href="http://www.celdf.org/">www.celdf.org</a> and clicking on the purple DONATE button.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Thank you,</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">From all of us at CELDF</p><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 1em; "><strong>National Community Rights Network Holds Historic First Meeting</strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center; "><a href="http://out02.thedatabank.com/?r=MTAwMw0KSjE2MzMxMC1DNDQ4LU0xMjg5NDktLWNlbGRmYWRtDQozNzE1NjQ0ODM0MjA1OTIwNDAwOTgxMjg5NDkxMTcNCjhiMDAwMDAwN2FkOGU0DQpodHRwOi8vd3d3LmNlbGRmLm9yZy9kb3dubG9hZHMvRmluYWxfTkNSTl9QcmVzc19SZWxlYXNlXzEwMzAxNC5wZGYNClBERg0KY2R1cmtlZUBtY24ub3Jn" target="_blank"><em>click here to read in pdf</em></a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">CONTACT: Cliff Willmeng,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:bigreddog1934@yahoo.com">bigreddog1934@yahoo.com</a>, 303-478-6613<br> Or: Wendy Lee,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:wlee@bloomu.edu">wlee@bloomu.edu</a>, 570-394-3849</p><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">October 30, 2014</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; "><br>SEVEN SPRINGS, PENNSYLVANIA: At its historic first meeting earlier this month, members of the<strong>National Community Rights Network (NCRN)</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>gathered to seat their permanent Board of Directors and accelerate the work of advancing the rights of local communities to the state and national level.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">The NCRN has grown out of the grassroots organizing of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)</strong>, which has assisted communities to advance Community Rights at the local level for nearly 20 years. More than 160 communities across the U.S. have adopted CELDF-drafted Community Bills of Rights,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>protecting community rights to clean air and water, sustainable food, energy, and other systems, and the right to local self-governance.</strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Since 2010, these same communities have joined together to launch state Community Rights Networks (CRNs) consisting of municipalities, grassroots organizations, and local government officials supporting Community Rights, in order to drive those rights to the state level. The NCRN is the next step in that advancement.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">“The NCRN has rapidly become the leading voice in the country for Community Rights and the right to local, community self-government<strong>. It is the movement that environmental, civil rights, and labor activists have been looking for – one that liberates communities across the country from being at the mercy of corporate “rights” and governmental powers exercised by those corporations</strong>,” said Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of CELDF. Linzey added, “The time has come to free ourselves from those constraints and become self-governing in the name of economic and environmental sustainability.”</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">President of the NCRN, Cliff Willmeng, of Lafayette, Colorado, stated, "<strong>People and communities have for too long lived with the regulation of our freedoms, and the exploitation of our labor and natural environment. The NCRN is a leap forward for genuine grassroots organizing, and provides a platform for systemic, democratic changes to our government and economy</strong>." </p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">The new board members represent Pennsylvania (PACRN), New Hampshire (NHCRN), Oregon (ORCRN), Ohio (OHCRN), Colorado (COCRN), New Mexico (NMCCR) and Washington (WACRN). Each delegate has engaged in Community Rights efforts locally and is dedicated to elevating the rights of communities above the claimed “rights” of corporations in order to protect and establish sustainable food, energy, economic, and other systems. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">The NCRN is committed to providing education, outreach, and support for the development of additional statewide Community Rights Networks. The organization is partnering with state and local Community Rights advocates to build a grassroots, people-driven, Community Rights Movement that will democratize and humanize decision-making at all levels.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">The NCRN mission is to assist our state Community Rights Networks to educate people across the country on local, community self-governance and community rights; secure the inalienable rights of all people, communities, and ecosystems through local self-governance; assert community rights to empower and liberate communities from state preemption and corporate harm; and advance those efforts toward state and federal constitutional change. </p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><td><div align="center" style="text-align: left; "><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" style="background-color: rgb(223, 233, 245); padding-top: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; "><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(80, 89, 99); "><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; "> CELDF<br> PO Box 360<br> Mercersburg, PA 17236<br> 717-498-0054<br> <a href="http://www.celdf.org/">www.celdf.org</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; "><a href="https://[clickthru%3Dfacebook%3Dwww.facebook.com/pages/Community-Environmental-Legal-Defense-Fund/112830808767534]" target="_blank"><img alt="" border="0" height="40" src="http://www3.thedatabank.com/hm/448/image/facebook-logo-transparent.png" width="40"></a> <a href="https://[clickthru%3Dtwitter%3Dtwitter.com/RightsOfNature]" target="_blank"><img alt="" border="0" height="40" src="http://www3.thedatabank.com/hm/448/image/twitter-logo-transparent.png" width="40"></a></p></td><td align="right"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><td><div align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td align="left" id="footer" style="padding-top: 20px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(171, 178, 191); "><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; "><a href="http://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/_public/hasFriend.asp?aacwc=371564483420592040098128949117&email=cdurkee%40mcn.org" target="_blank"><img alt="Forward this newsletter to a friend" border="0" src="http://www.thedatabank.com/images/fwd.gif"></a> <a href="http://out02.thedatabank.com/?r=MTAwMw0KSjE2MzMxMC1DNDQ4LU0xMjg5NDktLWNlbGRmYWRtDQozNzE1NjQ0ODM0MjA1OTIwNDAwOTgxMjg5NDkxMTcNCjhiMDAwMDAwN2FkOGU0DQpodHRwczovL3d3dy50aGVkYXRhYmFuay5jb20vZHBnLzQ0OC9wZXJzb25hbDIuYXNwP2Zvcm1pZD1uZXdzJmFhY3djPTM3MTU2NDQ4MzQyMDU5MjA0MDA5ODEyODk0OTExNw0KbmV3cw0KY2R1cmtlZUBtY24ub3Jn" target="_blank">Sign Up to receive CELDF news and information</a> <a href="http://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/_public/PMPrivacy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> <a href="http://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/_public/smSub.asp?aacwc=371564483420592040098128949117" target="_blank">Unsubscribe</a></p><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="tdbFooterAddinsWrapper"><tbody><tr><td><br><table align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://www.thedatabank.com"><img src="http://www.thedatabank.com/powered-thedatabank.gif" alt="thedatabank, inc." border="0"></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br><br><img src="http://out02.thedatabank.com/MTAwMw0KSjE2MzMxMC1DNDQ4LU0xMjg5NDktLWNlbGRmYWRtDQozNzE1NjQ0ODM0MjA1OTIwNDAwOTgxMjg5NDkxMTcNCjhiMDAwMDAwN2FkOGU0DQpjZHVya2VlQG1jbi5vcmc%3d.gif" width="0" height="0"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>