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Our mission is to build sustainable communities by assisting people to assert their right to local self-government and the rights of nature.
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CELDF’s 2024 “Vote for the People!” Update Report
Summer is fading away. School is back in full swing. Electoral politics are in full volume. And, 2024 is fast approaching its end. CELDF’s 2024 “Vote…
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News from the Grassroots
Order Your Copy Today of CELDF’s New Publication – Wouldn’t You Say?
The essays in Wouldn’t You Say? ask challenging questions about modern society, our relationship to each other, and to the natural world. Order Your Copy…
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Blogs
Tribal Sovereignty, White Man’s Reservations, and the Need for Tribal-Municipal Solidarity To Protect Our Collective Future
Feature photo by Samuel Regan-Asante on Unsplash Opposing harmful industrial projects – like mines, aerial pesticide spraying, factory farms, or toxic waste disposal facilities – is…
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News
The Killing of Lake Erie and Discovering Right Relationship Ten Years Later
On August 2, 2014, Toledo residents awoke to government alerts to not drink, bathe, use or touch the water coming out of their taps. The…
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Blogs
CELDF Response to “Can granting legal ‘personhood’ to nature stem biodiversity loss?” by Viktoria Kahui
The prospect of liability introduced by conferral of personhood status monetizes the relationship between humans and the rest of nature.
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Events
Should Rivers & Trees Have Rights?
On May 20, 2024, Rockland Sierra Club, Lower Hudson Group and ROAR (Religious Orders Along the River) hosted this conversation titled: SHOULD RIVERS AND TREES…
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Our Videos are a great introduction to big ideas and concepts tackled by the Community Rights Movement!
Check out our Fast Facts, Webinars, Community recaps and more to further your knowledge on the topics!
Truth Reckoning & Right Relationship Round Table: Information & Activism
How Wealth Rules Webinar: Part 11
Fast Fact Friday: Defund the Police
[The Community Rights and Rights of Nature movement] is the beginning of a social movement that is greater than just the oil and gas industry, it is a potential game changer for all of corporate America.
Independent Petroleum Association of New Mexico