From gas drilling to toxic dumping to water bottling...who makes the rules where you live—corporations or residents? The Community Rights Program assists communities confronted by harmful corporate projects to assert their right to make important decisions that impact them by passing binding laws that place the rights of residents (and nature) above the claimed legal “rights” of corporations. At the heart of the Community Rights Program is the belief that our right to create the kind of place we want to live and reining in corporate exploitation of our communities is the next evolution of the civil rights revolution. 

Contact the program:

• Shannon Biggs - Director, Community Rights shannon@globalexchange.org  (415) 575-5540

• Kylie Nealis - Associate, Community Rights                           kylie@globalexchange.org  (415) 575-5551