The bill paves the way for litigation against polluters on behalf of the ecosystem Press Release Thursday, February 24th, 2022 NYS Assemblymember Patrick B. Burke…
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 destruction of nature for the production of profit, and enslaves people through low wages.
Change That Matters by Jim Hightower | Creators Syndicate
Jim Hightower mentions CELDF in his publication on the growing Rights of Nature movement and the importance of protecting the health and survivability of ecosystems…
CELDF’s Ongoing Commitment to Expanding Community Rights
“The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is helping build a decolonial movement for Community Rights and the Rights of Nature to advance democratic, economic,…
Thacker Pass Statement
We are firm in our support of human and civil rights for all people, including the transgender community, without exception.
CELDF Publication: ‘Death by Democracy’
Protecting Water and Life: Frontline Stories from Ohioans fighting corporate and state power This book features frontline stories from a movement fighting corporate and state…
Donegal County Council votes unanimously to adopt Rights of Nature
In December, the Donegal County Council in Ireland voted unanimously to adopt the Rights of Nature as “an important statement of intention that imbeds the…
Historic Rights of Nature Victory in Ecuador
The plaintiffs were able to introduce scientific studies that supported their claims that current government regulations would harm the forest ecosystem and sacred species.
Press Release: Virginia Community Joins Global Rights of Nature Movement
Industrial gold mining has been shown to devastate local communities, including through the depletion of water tables and poisoning of water systems.
Restoring Mother Earth Law
Restoring our relationship to nature means restoring our human systems, including the legal system, to function just as healthy ecosystems do. Learn and discuss how…
2021 in Review
We are witnessing tremendous gains for the Rights of Nature movement and an expansion of awareness about the injustices perpetrated by highly centralized state government…
Newsletter: Washington Update
The WACRN is now working to operationalize the network to be that change agent it set out to be nearly 10 years ago.
PA Constitutional Change
House Bill 1716 is a proposed amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution. It would secure the right of self-government to every community in Pennsylvania.
Metallic Mining and Freedom from Toxic Trespass
The Virginia Community Rights Network has finalized text for an Ordinance Requiring an Assessment of the Compatibility of Metallic Mining with the Right to Freedom…
New Hampshire Municipal Outreach Campaign
As a means to gain feedback from local elected officials, the NHCRN launched a municipal outreach campaign this September.
Newsletter: Oregon Update
Justice continues to be denied in Oregon. Community rights efforts in Lane and Lincoln counties have, quite wrongly, found themselves mired in the Oregon court…
Newsletter: Ohio Update
Ohio communities have worked hard over the past eight years, proposing charter amendments and ordinances recognizing local self-governance and rights of nature.
Municipalism’s Escape from the Colonizing Imperatives of Empire in the U.S.
CELDF’s Ben Price presented a paper to the conference on the synergistic relationship between municipal activism CELDF has worked on in the United States and…
Transnational Institute of Social Ecology 2021 Conference
Bookchin recognized that social ecology will advance the cause of social and environmental justice by activating communities on many fronts. Uniting parallel efforts can actualize…
Newsletter: Ohio Update
Ohio communities over the past decade have worked hard to protect ecosystems and their communities from various harmful projects. They did the work of asserting…
Invisible Hand Film Showing and Conversation
Join us on September 29, at 6:30 pm CET, for a virtual screening of the award-winning film Invisible Hand, a documentary exploring the global Rights of…
Newsletter: New England Update
Residents are blowing the whistle on large-scale industrial solar arrays that require the cutting of old-growth forests in favor of destructive greenwashing.
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