The Primer walks you through the typical scenarios of what you can expect when a corporate project wants to come to town like elected officials saying…
CELDF Publication: “A Democracy Playbook” – CELDF’s Community Primer
The Primer walks you through the typical scenarios of what you can expect when a corporate project wants to come to town like elected officials saying their hands are tied or that if we just present all the information about how bad this thing is the powers that be will have to stop it.
Suggested Reading: Bright Green Lies How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It
All debates about environmental policy need to begin with honoring and protecting, not the desires of the human species, but with the sanctity of the…
Suggested Reading: Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy: A Book of History & Strategy
This collection, which Howard Zinn calls "powerfully persuasive," chronicles POCLAD's evolution among the twelve POCLADers and with thousands of activists. Here are hidden histories, crisp…
Suggested Reading: Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic
Camila Vergara provides a compelling and original genealogy of political corruption from ancient to modern thought, and shows how representative democracy was designed to protect…
Suggested Reading: As Long as Grass Grows The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
As Long As Grass Grows gives readers an accessible history of Indigenous resistance to government and corporate incursions on their lands and offers new approaches…
Suggested Reading: Who Gets to be Indian?
In Who Gets to Be Indian?, scholar and writer Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) explores how ethnic fraud and the commodification of Indianness has resulted in mass…
Suggested Reading: How to Survive – Practicing Care in a Changing Climate
It’s not just a book; it’s a collective invitation to reclaim our future through collaboration and care.
Finger Lakes Times: Rights of nature/Rights of water
What if bodies of water were guaranteed the kinds of legal rights that would criminalize actions that make our water and resources toxic?
Press Release: Lane County Watersheds Bill of Rights Qualifies for May 2026 Ballot
Lane County’s watersheds provide drinking water, irrigation for farms, and habitat for fish and wildlife. Yet these waterways face increasing threats from pollution, overuse, and…
Press Release: First Rights of Nature Easement Established in Hawaii
Ecosystems on eight acres of land on the island of Kaua'i is now protected under a Rights of Nature easement - the first in Hawaii,…
Suggested Reading: Climate Mobilities
The final chapter, “Exist, Flourish, Evolve,” brings together CELDF’s Tish O’Dell with artist Andrea Bowers and curator Megan Reich to reflect on what it means…
Columbus Free Press: There is Much We Can Do – How a Columbus Anti-Preemption City Charter Amendment Would Interfere with the American War Machine
The folks in Columbus, Ohio with their anti-preemption city charter amendment, are attacking the structure of American law which protects the American war machine, the…
ZNet Articles: Capitalism’s Missing Persons – Disappearing the Homeless, Immigrants, Native and Rural Communities, To Complete the Enclosure of the Commons
Disappearing the Homeless, Immigrants, Native and Rural Communities, To Complete the Enclosure of the Commons
CELDF’s 2025 Mid-year Impact Report
CELDF’s 2025 Mid-Year Impact Report Get Caught Up. Spread the Word. Give Generously. Celebrate CELDF’s 30th Anniversary!
CounterPunch: Moving Beyond Protest
July 22, 2025 by Kai Huschke Protests over the last 6 years The sheer number of protests in the first six months of 2025 resulting…
Press Release: “Solidarity Against Tyranny” Brings Together Activists from the Philippines and Appalachia
On July 21st, a special live streaming event will bring together grassroots activists from these places to share their experiences of repression and resistance. The event,…
Online Event: Solidarity Against Tyranny: Frontline Resistance Insights from the Philippines and Appalachian South
On July 21st at 6pm PDT / 9pm EDT, we invite you to join us for a special event, “Solidarity Against Tyranny,” to help answer…
Press Release: Columbus, Ohio Residents Strike Back Against “Liquidation of the Right to Local Self-Determination”
COLUMBUS, OH – What can a community do when the democratic process itself has been outlawed? That’s the question facing residents of Ohio.
Press Release: “Can You Handle the Truth?” New Book Features Voices of Dissent and Radical Solutions
Contact: Tish O’Dell, CELDF Consulting Director Tish@CELDF.org 440-552-6774 A collection of essays that confront the root causes of the interconnected ecological and social crisis MERCERSBURG,…
CELDF now on Substack: Truth, Reckoning, and Right Relationship
Announcing Truth and Reckoning on Substack, a project of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). We’re launching this Substack newsletter as we celebrate our…
CELDF Publication: Can You Handle the Truth? E-book and Paperback
Can You Handle the Truth? – Essays of Hard Truths Aimed at Right Relationship with Earth and Each Other Can You Handle the Truth? is…
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