Our Mission
Our mission is to build sustainable communities by assisting people to assert their right to local self-government and the rights of nature.
We help communities create a more democratic future.
For over 25 years, we have assisted 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 thousands of communities and governments facing injustice locally, nationally, and globally. Contact us now.
News from the Grassroots
Blogs
Wouldn’t you say? – Three Beliefs That Doom Western Society
We are neither separate from nor superior to, but rather part of and utterly dependent upon the non-human world around us, inside and out. Wouldn’t…
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News
CELDF is seeking a Donor Relations Coordinator | Job Opening
We need you to help us partner with others in fostering a culture and governing system that is all about community-based governing authority in the…
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Events
Truth, Reckoning & Right Relationship
On October 16, 2023 CELDF hosted the very first Truth, Reckoning, and Right Relationship for the Great Lakes at the Rock and Roll Hall of…
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Chemical Trespass
CELDF’s Kai Huschke presents: Legalized Chemical Warfare – Community Resistance and Resilience to Protect the Future
In 2017 voters of Lincoln County adopted a community rights law banning aerial spray of pesticides by the corporate timber industry. CELDF was involved in assisting in…
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Publications
Industrial Society Needs Cultural Transformation to Embrace Rights of Nature
That Begins with the Stories we Tell . . . CELDF’s Education Director, Ben G. Price, is a pioneer in establishing the legal Rights of…
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Chemical Trespass
Beaver Creek Press Release
100% of the water from the Seal Rock Water District (SRWD) comes from Beaver Creek.
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Video format more your style?
Our Videos are a great introduction to big ideas and concepts tackled by the Community Rights Movement!
Check out our Fast Facts, Webinars, Community recaps and more to further your knowledge on the topics!
Environmental Poker Match
How Wealth Rules Webinar: Part 4
Fast Fact Friday: Preemption
[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