Mending Modernity’s Split from Reality Through Corrective Thought and Action
JOIN CELDF LIVE ON MAY 7TH at 4pm ET! – Discussion on Systemic Racism, Sexism, Culturecide and Genocide from America’s Beginning
A LIVE STREAM Conversation with Keala Kelley (Kānaka Maoli) and Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) as part of our America 250: A Revolutionary Perspective series.
Suggested Reading: Tales From the Inner City
"Tales from the Inner City" by Shaun Tan is a collection of incredibly original stories, rich with feeling, strangely moving, almost numinous.
Suggested Reading – When I Set the Sweetgrass Down
Many poets write about the natural world – few poets write while acting directly to defend the natural world like environmental activist and attorney Will…
Suggested Reading – The Community of Rights: The Rights of Community
Community of Rights - Rights of Community enters into a dialogue with global communities about the meaning of being human and having rights. This book…
Resistance Grows as Border Wall Construction Threatens Jaguars
Though there are sections of border wall that have been in place for decades, the desire of the current regime to build a complete wall…
Sacred Legions Podcast Featuring CELDF’s Ben Price: A Secular Saint of Global Stewardship
In this conversation, host, Max Goller, and Secular Saint, Ben Price, discuss the evolution of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) and its mission…
Substack: My Life Un-Learning
How do YOU keep healthy in a toxic world? How do you deal with rules and regulations that prohibit local authority? What do you consider…
Suggested Reading – The Red Shoes: Our Devil’s Dance with Technology and How We Can Stop it
It is time we collectively take a giant step back, start making conscious choices about our technology use, and remove the red shoes before it…
Suggested Reading – Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It
All debates about environmental policy need to begin with honoring and protecting, not the desires of the human species, but with the sanctity of the…
Suggested Reading – Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy: A Book of History & Strategy
This collection, which Howard Zinn calls "powerfully persuasive," chronicles POCLAD's evolution among the twelve POCLADers and with thousands of activists. Here are hidden histories, crisp…
Suggested Reading – Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic
Camila Vergara provides a compelling and original genealogy of political corruption from ancient to modern thought, and shows how representative democracy was designed to protect…
Suggested Reading – As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
As Long As Grass Grows gives readers an accessible history of Indigenous resistance to government and corporate incursions on their lands and offers new approaches…
Suggested Reading – Who Gets to be Indian?
In Who Gets to Be Indian?, scholar and writer Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) explores how ethnic fraud and the commodification of Indianness has resulted in mass…
Suggested Reading – How to Survive: Practicing Care in a Changing Climate
It’s not just a book; it’s a collective invitation to reclaim our future through collaboration and care.
Finger Lakes Times: Rights of nature/Rights of water
What if bodies of water were guaranteed the kinds of legal rights that would criminalize actions that make our water and resources toxic?
Press Release: Lane County Watersheds Bill of Rights Qualifies for May 2026 Ballot
Lane County’s watersheds provide drinking water, irrigation for farms, and habitat for fish and wildlife. Yet these waterways face increasing threats from pollution, overuse, and…
Suggested Reading – Climate Mobilities
The final chapter, “Exist, Flourish, Evolve,” brings together CELDF’s Tish O’Dell with artist Andrea Bowers and curator Megan Reich to reflect on what it means…
ZNet Articles: Capitalism’s Missing Persons – Disappearing the Homeless, Immigrants, Native and Rural Communities, To Complete the Enclosure of the Commons
Disappearing the Homeless, Immigrants, Native and Rural Communities, To Complete the Enclosure of the Commons
CounterPunch: Moving Beyond Protest
July 22, 2025 by Kai Huschke Protests over the last 6 years The sheer number of protests in the first six months of 2025 resulting…
Counter Punch: CELDF and the Rights of Nature
There is a critical need for a movement to recognize nature as a legal entity with rights. Just as human rights are enshrined in law…
Rolling Stone: The Environment Is Under Attack. The Rights of Nature Movement Can Save It
Grant Township’s 2014 Rights of Nature law became the first such piece of legislation to be enforced by a state, with the Pennsylvania Department of…
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