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…
CELDF Publication – How to Protect Your Community: Enact Local Democracy Now!
To advance political education in the Granite State, the New Hampshire Community Rights Network (NHCRN) has compiled an in-depth booklet to explore a transformation of…
Press Release: Civil Rights Leaders in One of Nation’s Poorest Cities Launch Environmental Justice, Ecosystem Rights Ballot Initiative
Petitioners in Reading, Pennsylvania have officially kicked off a campaign to amend the Reading City Charter to outlaw “toxic trespass,” the poisoning of people and…
Press Release: International Rights of Nature Solidarity
Following international support for the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, CELDF is honored to work in solidarity with a new French-speaking network to advance Rights…
Press Release: Support Grows for Rights of Wetlands
CELDF officially endorsed a proposal for a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Wetlands, organized by lawyers and scientists with the Society of Wetland Scientists’…
Suggested Reading – How Dams Fall
“The Colorado River speaks,” Will Falk insists in How Dams Fall. Written while Falk was involved in the first-ever American federal lawsuit seeking personhood and…
Questioning Unquestioned Beliefs: What The Lake Erie Bill Of Rights Teaches Us
Attorneys Will Falk and Sean Butler's insightful piece on the Lake Erie Bill of Rights as Rights of Nature comes up against a legal system…
Suggested Reading – How Wealth Rules the world: Saving our Communities and Freedoms from The Dictatorship of Property
CELDFs national organizing director, Ben Price, reveals that our constitution and legal system were intentionally designed to give more rights to the wealthy propertied class…
CELDF Publication – Rebelling Against the Corporate State
Our popular Community Rights Papers were printed between 2014 - 2017 and re-frame contemporary and historical events through a Community Rights lens.
CELDF Publication – On Community Civil Disobedience in the Name of Sustainability
Our existing system of law is aimed at constant growth, development, and extraction – and conventional environmental advocacy works around the edges of this system,…
CELDF Publication – The People’s Right to Local Community Self-Government
This legal brief explains how the right of local, community self-government is not a new right, but one that is natural, inherent, and inalienable, belonging…
Press Release: Las Vegas, New Mexico, Adopts Community Bill of Rights; Bans Corporations from Fracking for Shale Gas
In front of a standing-room only crowd of residents, by a vote of 3-1, the City Council, Las Vegas, New Mexico enacted the Las Vegas…
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