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…

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…
On October 16, 2023 CELDF hosted Part 1 of Truth, Reckoning & Right Relationship for the Great Lakes, Nature, and each other at the Rock…
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…
That Begins with the Stories we Tell . . . CELDF’s Education Director, Ben G. Price, is a pioneer in establishing the legal Rights of…
CELDF is in need of a multimedia specialist who can generate content in a variety of formats and of varying levels of complexity.
CELDF’s Executive Director Kai Huschke will be on “Corporations and Democracy”, a program of public radio station KZYX. He will be discussing the growing attacks on…
Date/Time/Location: August 21st, 7pm, TBD Los Angeles + August 23rd, 7pm
August 9-13, 2023 in Wheelock, VT On August 10th, CELDF’s Michelle Sanborn will be presenting at the New Moon Mycology Summit on the Rights of Nature.…
Difficult as it may be, we’d all be better off focusing on how to change the legal system itself instead of pleading for stricter regulations.
July 19, 2023, UAW Region 2B Leadership Institute at the Walter and May Reuther UAW Family Education Center in Onaway, Michigan On July 19, 2023, CELDF’s…
“SLAPP suits are just another tool used by industry and corporations to silence and intimidate those who speak out against them and their activities,” stated…
On June 28th CELDF's Kai Huschke will be presenting at the Society for Wetland Scientists annual conference.
Dean Barlese, an elder of the Pyramid Lake Paiute-Shoshone, who told us “We've got to stand up for our ancestors, they gave their lives, they…
Wednesday, April 19th at 6:30 PM (Central Time) CELDF’s Tish O’Dell will be a panelist on for the upcoming discussion, The Myth of American Democracy:…
Feature photo by Whylly Suhendra As much as humans have effectively organized to harm and destroy their land bases and each other, the innate drive…
A more honest report on the East Palestine disaster and details how the system itself is to blame and why these horrific and deadly events…
“Water Is Us” was moderated by ORCRN’s board member and CELDF organizer Kai Huschke. Joining him was: On February 22nd the ORCRN’s Webinar Wednesday meandered through a variety of…
Kai Huschke, with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, talks to us about the hierarchy of community rights, states rights, and corporate rights.
Rights of Nature Panel Discussion: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm PST
March 3rd at 1:15pm to 2:45pm PST/4:15pm to 5:45pm EST. CELDF's Kai Huschke will be facilitating this panel on "Protecting our Vital Watersheds - Transitioning…
Using illustrator and writer Shaun Tan’s short story “Bears with Lawyers” as a touchstone, this discussion will interrogate the societal conception of rights (and rites)…