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Press Releases & Blogs
News from the CELDF headquarters, press releases, and blogs.Breaking: Grant Township Forces Pennsylvania to Revoke Injection Well Permit
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Community Wires
Keep up to date with the communities and groups that CELDF partners with around the world.Common Dreams: Abolish Earth Day
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In The News
News coverage and posts related to CELDF and the issues we work on, from across the internet.CELDF on the Daily Show: The Fight to Turn Lake Erie into a Person
Recent Posts
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Staying Home with Josh Fox: Preemption and Property Rights
Ben Price discusses Rights of Nature and how the concepts of preemption, claimed corporate rights, and property rights challenge local democracy and ecosystem rights.
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Common Dreams: Corporations Are Suing Cities Across the USA
A new Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund report details a standard operating procedure of how corporate interests, and the politicians who serve them, retain power.
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Staying Home with Josh Fox: Rights of Nature
Melissa Troutman and Will Falk discuss how Rights of Nature confronts problematic legal constructs and inspires the cultural shift we need to end legalized destruction of the natural world.
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Thom Hartmann Program: State Law Benefits Corporations Against You – You Lose
Chad Nicholson joins Thom Hartmann to discuss how the 1% are effectively, suing the 99% for their own benefit, citing the findings of our June 2020 Report.
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A Guide to Protesting and How to Support the Black Lives Matter Movement
A quick guide on how to participate in ongoing BLM protests and support the Movement in an effective way.
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Lawsuit: Columbus, OH Must Take Action to Preserve Direct Democracy During the Pandemic
Press Release: Petitioners in Columbus file a lawsuit against the state of Ohio for unconstitutional limits on signature gathering during the COVID-19 pandemic in Columbus. The Columbus city charter imposes a one year time limit on signature gathering.
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Webinar: Expanding Rights-Based Organizing During a Crisis
A live Q&A with CELDF organizers on Expanding Rights-Based Organizing During a Crisis.
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Corporate Actors Challenged in Lincoln County, OR: Ecosystem, Petitioners Defend Ordinance
Press Release: Petitioners in Lincoln County, OR filed a detailed appeal to a court decision that overturned a local law banning aerially sprayed pesticides as a violation of people’s right to clean air, water, and soil and natural ecosystems’ rights. The Siletz River ecosystem was denied intervention in the case.
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Guest Blog: Time for a Universal Declaration on the Rights of Nature
Pella Thiel, Rights of Nature Sweden, calls for meaningful changes to our relationship with nature.
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New Hampshire Supreme Court: Allow People to Defend Against Corporate Lawsuits
Nottingham, New Hampshire residents appeal Supreme Court to defend their Freedom from Chemical Trespass Ordinance. Adopted in 2019, this ordinance secures the right to a climate system capable of sustaining human societies, bans all corporate activities that infringe that right, and grants residents the right to defend the law in court.
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CELDF REPORT: Corporations Are Suing Cities Across the USA
A new Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund report details a standard operating procedure of how corporate interests, and the politicians who serve them, retain power.
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Stand With George Floyd: Life > Property
When violent police forces rooted in white supremacy defend property rather than human beings, then property destruction becomes a collective act of self-defense. CELDF stands in solidarity with protesters outraged by racial injustice and violence. #BlackLivesMatter