Our purpose is to educate and organize towns in the area of the Great Bay Estuary regarding their rights in the face of laws that allow unsustainable projects to go forward in our communities. Currently, Durham, Newington, and Newmarket residents are facing effects of Eversource's Seacoast Reliability Project drilling an energy corridor through Little Bay, stirring up 100 year old toxins embedded in the silt. In response, Newmarket residents are organizing around our right to democratically adopt a Newmarket Freedom from Chemical Trespass Rights-Based Ordinance. A rights-based ordinance (RBO) is a binding local law that legalizes the pure water, clean air, and uncontaminated soil that community residents envision for their future and that recognizes the inalienable rights of humans and the rights of nature to protect their health, safety, and well-being. ANCER believes that fellow Great Bay area residents--once empowered to raise their voices to declare what kind of social and environmental justice they stand behind--will choose to adopt community rights-based ordinances to elevate their and their ecosystems' rights above the claimed 'rights' of corporations. (Photo Credits: Kathy Lockhardt, Glen Traquair, Michelle Sanborn)