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Tish O'dell Tish O’Dell is the Consulting Director for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). She started in her own community of Broadview Heights, Ohio, leading to the adoption of Ohio’s first Home Rule charter amendment creating a Community Bill of Rights banning fracking and recognizing Rights of Nature, and today works with communities all over the country and internationally.
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Over the past five years, organizers in seven Ohio communities (three cities, four counties) have qualified ballot measures to recognize enforceable rights of ecosystems and human rights to water. All take the historic and bold step of elevating these basic rights above the legal privileges currently enjoyed by private corporations in the United States. The local laws seek to halt fracking and accompanying fossil fuel infrastructure projects.
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