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.
Benton County Community Rights Coalition co-founder Clint Lindsey on TVSet to talk about Community Rights vs. GMOs
On March 3rd at Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, Oregon, fifty farmers and food advocates from eight counties – Benton, Clackamas, Jackson, Josephine, Lane, Lincoln,…
CELDF Statement: A New Civil Rights Movement: Liberating Our Communities from Corporate Control
A Pennsylvania Judge Holds That Corporations Are Not “Persons” Under the Pennsylvania Constitution.
Fighting to Protect our Seed Heritage in Benton County: Clinton Lindsey of Willamette Valley, OR and co-founder of the Benton County Community Rights Coalition, is interviewed on Locus Focus.
Clinton Lindsey is interviewed by Barbara Bernstein of KBOO Community Radio about Benton County Community Rights Coalition, formed to protect Willamette Valley from GMO seed…
FIGHTING TO PROJECT OUR SEED HERITAGE IN BENTON COUNTY
On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with Clinton Lindsay, a 5th-generation farmer and local food advocate from Corvallis, Oregon, who is working with…
Rights of Nature on the Santa Monica City Council Agenda
Santa Monica City Council introduces California's first community rights ordinance, recognizing the right to self-governance, clean air and water, sustainable food and energy systems, and…
CELDF’s New Frontiers: Building a Grassroots Movement for Community Rights and the Rights of Nature
Slideshow Narrated by Thomas Linzey
Rooted Lands – Tierras Arraigadas – a film about the rising up of Mora County, New Mexicans against the oil & gas industry. View the trailer here
For more information on this important film and additional screenings, see RootedLands.com
Tree Media, producing films such as The 11th Hour and Urban Roots, is partnering with CELDF to make a film called We The People 2.0, about our grassroots organizing and our community partners. Below is a trailer for the film.
Sometimes, a film comes along that conveys a message we’ve been listening for, but haven’t yet heard. A message that shows us what we’ve had…
Fracking Scare Tactics in Highland
Update on pending lawsuit in Highland Township, PA, where supervisors recently passed a Community Bill of Rights to ban fracking injection wells - excerpt from…
Dr. Stephen Cleghorn signed the 1st Rights of Nature based legal easement on his 52 acre organic farm in late 2012. Click here to view a stirring speech he gave in 2011, passionately taking a stand to stop fracking and protect the land.
Presentation by Dr. Stephen Cleghorn, a sociologist and an organic farmer from Jefferson County, PA, and was recorded at the Epic No Frack Event at…
Stephen Cleghorn on Fracking the Farmland: The Resistance Begins With One Man
This is a really energetic presentation by Dr. Stephen Cleghorn, a sociologist and an organic farmer from Jefferson County, PA, and was recorded at the…
Beyond Personhood: Why Corporations Love the Constitution More Than You do
What do you love about the U.S. Constitution?
WeArePowerShift.org: Matt Damon’s “Promised Land”: The Good, Bad, and Misrepresented
Alexander Lotorto reviews Matt Damon's movie Promised Land, in part praising its bringing attention to the issue of shale gas drilling and fracking, while critiquing…
Public Herald: Just Say ‘No’ — Locals Ban Frack Waste in Pa.
On January 9, 2013, in otherwise quiet Highland Township in Elk County, Pennsylvania, officials signed a community rights bill into law stopping the deposit of…
CELDF’s Gail Darrell presents to the community group Thanks But No Tank in Belfast, ME on residents’ governing authority
Community Organizer, Gail Darrell, of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, gave a presentation on October 19, 2012 about what power citizens have and do…
Thanks but no Tank Presentation by CELDF’s Gail Darrell
Community Organizer, Gail Darrell, of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, gave a presentation on October 19, 2012 about what power citizens have and do…
CELDF and Global Exchange: Occupy Wall Street
Activists Shannon Biggs of Global Exchange and Ben Price of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund participated in Occupy Wall Street people’s mic teach-in on…
Why do we need a local bill of rights?
Democracy School attendee Priscilla Stuckey on "Why do we need a local bill of rights?"
NPR Special Series – The Future of Nonhuman Rights: Recognizing The Right Of Plants To Evolve
The rights of plants to exist and evolve is explored as interest grows for recognizing the rights of nature.
View the trailer for “Rooted Lands – Tierras Arraigadas”
Chronicling community rights organizing in New Mexico to protect residents and the land.
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