For over eight years, organizers with the Ohio Community Rights Network (OHCRN) have worked hard with CELDF to propose and pass charters, charter amendments and ordinances recognizing protective local self-governance and the Rights of Nature. In Death by Democracy — an OHCRN publication — we hear directly from them.

Their organizing shifted local political dynamics, advanced rights of ecosystems and inspired campaigns and lawmaking in other states and countries, like Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain and France.

In this book, residents share the lessons they learned from being on the receiving end of coordinated repression. Eventually, they filed a federal civil rights lawsuit, arguing the systemic obstruction and two-faced tactics by local boards of elections and the State of Ohio, at the behest of corporate lobbies, amounted to the effective censoring of local ballots and direct democracy by the people.

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