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Press Releases & Blogs
News from the CELDF headquarters, press releases, and blogs.PR: Spokane Arrestees Sue U.S. Government: Seek to Overturn Federal Preemption of Local Control Over Coal and Oil Trains
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Community Wires
Keep up to date with the communities and groups that CELDF partners with around the world.All is not Well in Grant Township
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In The News
News coverage and posts related to CELDF and the issues we work on, from across the internet.Thom Hartmann Program: Civil Disobedience Just Became a Civic Duty
Recent Posts
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Labor Day Retreat & Skill Share Weekend
CELDF presents at this skills-based retreat weekend on Community Rights, Rights of Nature, and the Lake Erie Bill of Rights. Join us!
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Blog: Brazil Superior Court calls for paradigm shift to recognize the intrinsic value and rights of nature
Brazil Superior Court is next to advance Rights of Nature, calling for a biocentric legal approach that moves away from human domination.
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Media Statement: Lake Erie Bill of Rights Court Case Heats Up as Algae Bloom Grows
The City of Toledo takes a stand in court to defend the Lake Erie Bill of Rights.
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Uniting Behind the Rights of Nature, the Rights of Ireland
Ireland residents call for action through a new constitution that includes recognition of the Rights of Nature, placing “human actions in a balanced relationship with the natural world.”
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Bryan Times: Forum: County charter being stonewalled
Williams County, Ohio, residents are working to protect their county’s water source from privatization. Their own government is trying to stop them.
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Rights of Manoomin and the St. Louis Estuary
Community members in Duluth, Minnesota, explore Rights of Nature as a mean to protect wild rice and the St. Louis Estuary.
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Earth Island Institute: Recognizing Rights of Great Barrier Reef Could Help Defeat Destructive Coal Mine Project
Many of us see environmental laws as intended to protect nature. Instead, they legalize harm, such as the Adani’s Carmichael coal mine. It’s time to change law.
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NPR: Should Rivers Have Same Legal Rights As Humans? A Growing Number Of Voices Say Yes
NPR covers this story on the growing Rights of Nature movement across the U.S. and around the world. “‘[W]e have to change our environmental protection in this country and across the world, because obviously what we’re doing isn’t working.'”
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Truthout: States Are Thwarting Cities’ Attempts to Govern Themselves
The federal court’s decision to uphold the Berkeley cellphone radiation disclosure law should not be mistaken for judicial deference to the right of local self-government.
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Reuters: That river has rights: new strategy to protect planet
Recognizing legal rights of ecosystems is a growing movement gaining momentum around the world.
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Democracy School: Igniting a Rights Movement for Communities and Nature
Join us for our newly revised and participatory Democracy School in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Learn more here!
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Can a River Be a Person? Indigeneity, Law, and Climate Change
Join us at this conference where CELDF will be speaking on indigenous rights and the Rights of Nature!
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Press Release: Ballot Access Stymied in Ohio and Washington
The corporate state attempts to strip democratic rights in Ohio and Washington state. CELDF supports communities as together they fight back.
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The Columbus Dispatch: Letter: Budget section tramples on community, nature’s rights
Community members in Columbus, Ohio, call out the state legislators’ shameful efforts to quash Rights of Nature in the budget bill.