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Virginia Community Rights Network Launched
Mindy Zlotnick Letter to the Farmville Herald Editor: "The fight against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) taught us that when people work together, we can win." Read more at the Farmville Herald, published Wednesday July 22, 2020 To view a scanned copy of the article...
Activists form Virginia Community Rights Network
Heidi Dhivya Berthoud (Source: WVIR) July 28, 2020 at 4:36 PM EDT - Updated July 28 at 4:36 PM BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) - The fight isn’t over for activists who helped defeat the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. People who challenged a proposed pipeline compressor...
Anti-ACP activists launch Virginia Community Rights Network
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- The Virginia Community Rights Network was launched by a group of residents of Buckingham County who worked to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in order to help strengthen the power of localities. The group was launched to...
We Won’t Back Down
ARTivism Virginia and Water is life. Protect it. are proud to co-produce "We Won't Back Down", a retrospective of the Virginia resistance to and corruption in the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley fracked gas pipelines for the esteemed Interfaith Alliance for Climate...
“To the River” No Pipeline Anthem SUN SiNG
"To the River", a new no pipeline anthem written by Joshua Vana, arranged, performed by the SUN SiNG collective and filmed by Sarah Hazlegrove, premiered at the SUN SiNG Concert: April 26. 2019. There was no studio time in the creation of this video. "To the River"...
Standing Like a Tree music video
Standing Like a Tree music video from Lobo Marino and Water is life. Protect it. Calls out from an old growth forest slated for destruction by the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) and asks us to resist the ACP, MVP fracked gas pipelines and to stand to prevent new fossil...
Virginia Community Rights Network launched to challenge corporatism, Dillon’s Rule
Augusta Free Press: Published Tuesday, Jul. 14, 2020, 12:24 pm The Virginia Community Rights Network has been launched to support local efforts to recognize and legally secure the Rights of Nature and Communities to a healthy environment through self-government at the...
Launch of Virginia Network Advances the Rights of Nature and Communities
Letter to the editor coming soon!
ACP Activists Celebrate Victory, Launch Virginia Network to Challenge Corporatism and Dillon’s Rule, Advance Rights of Nature
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Heidi Dhivya BerthoudVirginia Community Rights NetworkHeidi@vacommunityrights.org 434-979-9732 Susie BeiersdorferNational Community Rights NetworkOhio Community Rights NetworkNationalcrn@gmail.com 330-881-1050 Kara...
Clean water is a human right. In America it’s more a profit machine
When it comes to water infrastructure, America’s challenges resemble those of a developing country. It’s time for that to change. ‘Before the coronavirus pandemic hit, nearly 14m households were unable to afford their water bills.’ Illustration: Erre Gálvez/The...