We help communities create & defend their rights.
We assist communities to develop first-in-the-nation, groundbreaking laws for worker rights, houseless rights, democratic rights, and the Rights of Nature. We also provide free and low-cost legal services, grassroots organizing, and education support, to communities and governments facing injustice. Contact us now.
EARTH DAY-ZED AND CONFUSED
Essays, poetry, blogs, music, and more by CELDF staff
While people around the world celebrate the planet we’re collectively killing and simultaneously trying to save, CELDF is looking forward and back, contemplating where we’ve been and where, if anywhere, we’re going. Over the upcoming weeks, we’ll share our thoughts, analysis, creativity and retrospectives. Stay in touch and share your thoughts with us…we really are all in this one together.
Blogs
Building Our Children’s Trust Needs to Start With Reality
While we’re being told by scientific authority that decisive action to reduce carbon emissions is mandatory within the 2020’s, the legal theory underlying Juliana is…
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Blogs
It’s Not All Bad
Over the last 15 years, grassroots work that establishes rights for human and natural communities has expanded in ways that no one could have foreseen.…
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Blogs
Less is More: Confronting the American Nightmare of Stuff
The system has worked hard to create obedience in a number of ways and to cover up and misdirect the true impacts of what our…
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News from the Grassroots
WOULDN’T YOU SAY? – PERSONHOOD
The Right of Free Speech Includes the Right to Clean Air to Speak With Look,…
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A Living Tribute to Philip Jurus
In February 2019, just days before the Toledo special election on the Lake Erie Bill…
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The Elephant in the Zoo(m): Should Non-Humans and Natural Resources be Considered “Persons” Under the Law?
NYWBA’s Animal Law and WBASNY’s Environmental Law Committees presents a webinar on June 20, 2022…
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We are pleased to announce the program for the upcoming International Society of Public Law 2022 Online ICON•S Conference!
Dismantling the US Property Doctrine in the Name of Planet and People | JULY 5 | 9:15…
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PA Climate Convergence: Invocation, Rally & March
SUNDAY, JUNE 12 – RIVERFRONT PARK, FRONT ST. & MARKET ST., HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA This June…
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REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! Webinar June 30th at 7:00 PM (EDT) – Putting Our Heads in the Clouds: Landmark Decision in Ecuador Points to Protection over Exploitation
This past November, Ecuador’s Constitutional Court ruled in favor of the Los Cedros Cloud Forest…
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Fast Facts
Our Fast Facts are quick introductions to big ideas and concepts tackled by the Community Rights Movement! Check out our Fast Facts and find resources to more information to further your knowledge on the topics! Watch them all here.
Rights of Nature
Community Rights
Box of Allowable Activism
[The Community Rights and Rights of Nature movement] is the beginning of a social movement that is greater than just the oil and gas industry, it is a potential game changer for all of corporate America.
Independent Petroleum Association of New Mexico