Disappearing the Homeless, Immigrants, Native and Rural Communities, To Complete the Enclosure of the Commons
CELDF’s 2025 Mid-year Impact Report
CELDF’s 2025 Mid-Year Impact Report Get Caught Up. Spread the Word. Give Generously. Celebrate CELDF’s 30th Anniversary!
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…
Press Release: Columbus, Ohio Residents Strike Back Against “Liquidation of the Right to Local Self-Determination”
COLUMBUS, OH – What can a community do when the democratic process itself has been outlawed? That’s the question facing residents of Ohio.
CELDF Publication – Can You Handle the Truth? E-book and Paperback
Can You Handle the Truth? – Essays of Hard Truths Aimed at Right Relationship with Earth and Each Other Can You Handle the Truth? is…
Press Release: New Book Reflects on 30 Years of Activism for Community and Nature’s Rights
A new book of essays written by a trailblazer in the Rights of Nature movement tackles the enduring myths behind the environmental crisis.
2024 Year-end Newsletter: Living in Nature
We hope you enjoy the articles, factoids, features, and spotlights of the people who make CELDF the powerhouse that it is through our 2024 End-of-Year Newsletter.
CELDF 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…
Raising Awareness Through Film: “What We Do to Nature, We Do to Ourselves”
Artist, Andrea Bowers, brought us the “Exist, Flourish, Evolve” art show on Rights of Nature & the Great Lakes and also offers this documentary film,…
Reckoning with the truth to get in right relationship with the Great Lakes
CELDF and partners hosted Truth, Reckoning, and Right Relationship with the Great Lakes in the fall of 2023 to wrestle with the questions of law…
Truth, Reckoning & Right Relationship
CELDF has been attempting to shift culture and laws by educating residents of communities on how the system isn’t broken, but set up to protect…
Suggested Reading – Ogden: A Tale for the End of Time
"Ogden: A Tale for the End of Time" is a coming of age story that reveals industrial society needs cultural transformation to embrace rights of…
Group announces PGE to plug controversial well
According to the CELDF, “not a single drop of frack waste has been injected within the township due to hard work, resistance and resilience.”
Suggested Reading – English Translation & Webinar of the Landmark Decision in Ecuador to Protect Los Cedros Forest over Mining Profits
This is a landmark decision because it is not only explicit in the language of upholding the Rights of Nature, but it demonstrates what it looks…
CELDF Publication – Death by Democracy
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…
Suggested Reading – One-Block Revolution
CELDF’s Kai Huschke was centrally involved in the first-in-the-nation Community Bill of Rights and Worker Bill of Rights. His chapter for the new book One-Block…
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…
Suggested Reading – The World We Need: Highlights, Stories and Lessons From America’s Unsung Environmental Movement
The World We Need offers a vivid look at the people protecting America’s communities against environmental degradation and racism. Their strategies for saving lives, protecting…
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…
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