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Citizens for Rights of the Ohio River Watershed (CROW) is a group of community-minded citizens who came together in Cincinnati, Ohio in the summer of 2020 to attend a Democracy School facilitated by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). [1]

Democracy School: During the month-long Democracy School the group studied the foundations of democracy in the United States, how it developed, who sought to benefit, and how that founding has led us to where we are today, that is, where corporations are given rights as people, nature continues to be polluted anew, and the environment is viewed as a resource to be exploited for economic gain with little regard for human and environmental health. Time and time again we learned that corporations, supported at our country’s founding and championed by some politicians, are permitted to pollute through regulations and regulatory agencies that do not serve to protect the world around us in the ways we think they do. By eroding democratic community rights little by little, corporations, through political actors, remove citizen’s rights to make decisions about their community leading to a loss of environmental protection.