​Presently, in New Hampshire, our state legislative framework is being used to favor corporate privilege and deny Community Rights.  Oppressive control of this framework by commercial and property interests, subordinates the rights of community members and subjects our communities to harm.  Until the state liberates local law-making to prevent our communities from being used as mere resource colonies of the state, we will continue to fight every battle in a vacuum, while being denied the authority we believe we have, subject to a corporate-driven agenda. 

Nature's Law: The Rights Of Nature To Exist

Published: 8:46 AM EDT September 9, 2018
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We have endowed ourselves, as humans, with rights considered inherent and fundamental - but did we ever consider granting Mother Nature any of those rights? Today, some are.

How American Corporations Had A 'Hidden' Civil Rights Movement

HEARD ON FRESH AIR WITH DAVE DAVIES - Law professor Adam Winkler says that in the past 200 years, businesses have gone to court claiming constitutional rights that were originally intended for people. His new book is We the Corporations.​

Resistance Radio
​Guest: Thomas Linzey

​Thomas Linzey is the executive director and an attorney for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, which has assisted close to 200 communities across the country in eight states to adopt binding local laws that elevate community rights to sustainability over corporate rights and powers.

When Human Rights Are Not Enough
With: Mari Margil 

Defending the Rights of Nature - 
In this episode, we discuss the limitations of human rights in confronting environmental harms and how we could realize the rights of nature.​

Community Rising Tour: Defying the Corporate State

​Thomas Linzey in Ohio for the Community Rising Tour: Defying The Corporate State. Community Rights organizers gathered in Ohio and Pennsylvania to speak about how local municipalities are working to stop harmful industrial enterprise from coming into their communities are how they are taking control of their future.
​CELDF @ Millersville University​​
Chad Nicholson speaking at Millersville University in PA.​​​

We the People 2.0​​

As part of our grassroots organizing, Community Rights Awareness Campaign, the New Hampshire Community Rights Network (NHCRN) is proud to co-sponsor a film showing of We the People 2.0 – The Second American Revolution.

Passing Local Ordinances is our Right!

​Listen to Laura Slitt with Marc on Drive Time at WMVW.  Michelle Sanborn of CELDF speaking at Conway Public Library about Protecting People & Places.​​

NH Towns Exploring RBOs

​A slew of New Hampshire towns are in the path of a 192-mile high tower electrical transmission line, carrying industrial hyrdo-power from Canada. The Granite State is is poised to become an extension cord for the sole purpose of delivering power to other states. Communities don’t want it. They are hosting a Community Rights Awareness Workshop to learn about the barriers they face to stopping it – and what they can do about it. 

Great Bay: An Estuary in Peril

This hour documentary, produced by Breakaway Media, reveals the threats to the Great & Little Bay and its watershed in New Hampshire, impacting communities and ecosystems across the region. CELDF’s Michelle Sanborn – also with the New Hampshire Community Rights Network – is interviewed on the film. She explores the systemic barriers we face to protect our communities, and how the NHCRN and CELDF are supporting communities to overcome those barriers and realize sustainability.​

Growing Roots and Rights for Just Communities:

​Hear stories from people and activists all over Ohio about how they have gotten involved in Community Rights to create the just communities they envision. Recorded September 2018 in Columbus at the Growing Roots and Rights Conference.

What's up Eastie?
A Zumix radio show on current issues​
Community Rights: Part 2

Michelle Sanborn (New Hampshire Community Rights Network) & Mary Ellen Welch (East Boston Community Leader) join What's Up Eastie? to discuss community rights, the way governments infringe upon those rights, and how communities can fight back.
​Citizen Action for Exeter's Environment,  NHCRN,
​& 350NH hosted a Screening of  INVISIBLE HAND followed by Q&A with featured guest, Thomas Linzey esq., executive director and co-founder of Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). Thomas spoke to how people in their communities can write binding laws that legalize economic, social, and environmental sustainability.  

​Merrily Mazza, COCRN

Lafayette, CO, city council member, Merrily Mazza, discusses how they passed the first Climate Bill of Rights to stand up to corporate power in Eugene, OR.

What's up Eastie?

A Zumix radio show on current issues​
​Two community organizers joined me: NH Community Rights Network Michelle Sanborn, and long-term local (East Boston) community leader Mary Ellen Welch.

Taking Community Control Of Our Neighborhoods

​Corporations are taking more and more of our commons, even to the point of taking our water. Thomas Linzey Esq joins us to talk about how we can take back control.

Tell Me a Story: Community Activist​

Community Rights Lane County founder Michelle Holman talks about the importance of fighting for the health, safety and welfare of Lane County residents. (Kelly Lyon/The Register-Guard)​​

NH! Your Democracy is at Risk

​The people of New Hampshire are awakening to the reality of corporate control of state government. The corporate-state’s attacks upon this last vestige of direct democracy is indeed eye-opening. It reveals how the government of, by and for the elite minority is threatened by the possibility of local, democratic self-government of, by and for the majority.

YOUR GIVING HELPS TO PROTECT PEOPLE & PLANET

​“The New Hampshire Community Rights Network makes education available to New Hampshire citizens with the goal of driving community rights and the recognition of ecosystem rights – an integral part of every community – into fundamental law.”
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