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“Wouldn’t You Say?”
Welcome to CELDF’s new commentary series that focuses on key concepts in our work to advance Community Rights and the Rights of Nature.
Superficially, these may appear to be separate movements for legal rights but, as we have come to understand, everything’s connected and the artificial separation of human communities from the natural communities that we refer to as “ecosystems” allows the migration of imprudent and commercially biased dogmas into environmental and political policies. Like our “Fast Facts Friday” whiteboard videos, “Wouldn’t you say?” treats key legal, political and ethical concepts with an eye to brevity and accessibility. We hope they’ll be helpful to you and all of our CELDF community.
Blogs
Wouldn’t You Say? – Community Self-Government
Do you know what’s not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution? For one thing, government by the people.
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Blogs
Wouldn’t You Say? – Property
The Right to Property is Inalienable, Right? Some rights are defined as inalienable, meaning that they can’t be taken away from you. Heck, you can’t…
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Blogs
Wouldn’t You Say? – Personhood
The Right of Free Speech Includes the Right to Clean Air to Speak With Look, if corporate property can be called a legal person, and…
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News from the Grassroots
Wouldn’t You Say? – Community Self-Government
Do you know what’s not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution? For one thing, government by…
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Wouldn’t You Say? – Property
The Right to Property is Inalienable, Right? Some rights are defined as inalienable, meaning that…
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“Putting the rights of nature on the map. A quantitative analysis of rights of nature initiatives across the world.”
The Rights of Nature (RoN) promote a new understanding of the human environment, where natural entities are…
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Truthout: Nature Isn’t a “Vault” Full of Material Value. It Is a Treasure to Be Valued.
CELDF’s Ben Price wrote this article, featured in Truthout, about a mining corporation’s scam plan,…
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Join CELDF & Sierra Club Niagara Group Environmental Series on Rights of Nature
Wednesday, July 20, 2022 at 6:30 PM Eastern Time Sierra Club Niagara Group Environmental Series:…
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Available Now: English Translation & Webinar of the Landmark Decision in Ecuador to Protect Los Cedros Forest over Mining Profits
We at CELDF were excited to be able to read the full decision of the Constitutional…
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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