Can You Handle the Truth? – Essays of Hard Truths Aimed at Right Relationship with Earth and Each Other
Can You Handle the Truth? is a diverse collection of published articles and blogs about people and nature written by CELDF staff through a lens of truth-telling. Sometimes, the truth can be hard to face, but in order to reckon with the systemic and cultural challenges and changes we will need to make for a future grounded in right relationship, truth is the first step.
For nearly 30 years, CELDF has offered on-the-ground organizing assistance, education, and consulting services for communities all across the U.S. and around the globe and always from a place of truth-telling. Compiling these diverse pieces into book form was inspired by the two part Truth, Reckoning and Right Relationship with the Great Lakes events that CELDF hosted in 2023 and 2024.
Beginning with the Foreword written by artist and storyteller Robert Shetterly, who’s ongoing and expanding “Americans Who Tell the Truth” portrait exhibit has highlighted and celebrated truthtelling for over 20 years, this experience-infused collection covers activism and rights, societal challenges, environmental concerns, historical reflections, and community solidarity, all advocating for a more equitable and sustainable future through activism and community engagement.
Can You Handle the Truth? is ultimately a call to reexamine foundational principles and beliefs in the interest of future generations and to move toward right-relationship by way of grassroots solutions instead of reliance on a regulatory regime that regulates activists instead of polluters and impudent slash-and-burn profiteers.
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