For over eight years, organizers with the Ohio Community Rights Network (OHCRN) have worked hard with CELDF to propose and pass county charters, city charter amendments and city ordinances recognizing protective local self-governance and the Rights of Nature. In Death by Democracy — 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, Ohioans share the lessons they learned from being on the receiving end of coordinated repression. Eventually, filing a federal civil rights lawsuit, arguing the systemic obstruction and tactics by local boards of elections and the State of Ohio – at the behest of corporate lobbies – amounted to civil rights violations resulting in censoring of local ballots and direct democracy by the people. In reality it was “death” by the democratic institutions they once believed in.

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