Feature photo by Christine Roy Like Junk Mail, Junk Speech is Trash Talk Freedom of speech isn’t what it used to be. Toward the end…
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…
Wouldn’t You Say? – When Democracy is Privatized
The centuries-long Enclosure (privatization) Movement in the U. S. is nearing completion.
Wouldn’t You Say? – Ignorance as License
Anti-intellectualism is as American as hot dogs.
Wouldn’t You Say? – The Law Did not Save Grant Township’s Water, the People of Grant Did
If the persistence of the people of Grant Township in pursuit of justice took ten years for them to prevail, it is because they insisted…
Wouldn’t You Say? – The Invisible Empire in Plain Sight
The American dream has turned out to be a nightmare. Wouldn’t you say?
Wouldn’t You Say? – The Challenge of Movement Building
"It seems like legal rights for community and for nature would almost be unnecessary if our attitude toward the world were based on reciprocity, responsibility,…
Wouldn’t You Say? – From Rights of Nature to Right Relationship
We are used to extracting not only metallic ores and fossil fuels, but ourselves and our communities from the natural world, and yet we don’t…
Wouldn’t You Say? – Saving the Economy Means Not Saving Nature
At the risk of expediting the die-off of most life on the planet, including most humans, judges continue to turn a blind eye toward the…
Wouldn’t You Say? – Materialism is Substance Abuse, Literally
Let’s be generous and call the COP–15 agreement a plan for conserving 1% of Earth’s biodiversity. That means that negotiators agreed to sacrifice 99% of…
Wouldn’t You Say? – What Do We Mean by “Community Rights?”
Lakota advocate and water protector Debra White Plume (Wioweya Najin Wina), upon being introduced to the history of municipal subjugation in the United States during…
Wouldn’t You Say? – What are the Rights of Nature?
The law locks up the man or woman, Who steals the goose from off the common, But leaves the greater villain loose, Who steals the…
Wouldn’t You Say? – Nature is What’s Real
You wouldn’t think, in a rational society, that anyone would have to be told this, but reality doesn’t care what anybody believes is true; it…
Wouldn’t You Say? – Municipal Maze
Refuse to be complacent. Refuse to be complicit. Refuse to be irrelevant.
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.
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…
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, pushed as an environmentally friendly investment opportunity.
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…
Earth Emancipation Now!
Earth Emancipation Now! Synopsis: The American Empire was built on the model of European colonialism and the enclosure of the Commons. The Federalists, who crafted…
Challenges to Implementing Rights of Nature in the U.S
The intentional conflation of privileged property of this sort with personal property, the product of individual labor and creativity, perpetuates distrust of Rights of Nature.
BOOK FOREWORD: Empowering Municipal Sustainability
They say that knowledge is power, but it’s not true. Knowledge fuels our actions and our actions are power.
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