Glen Anderson interviewed two experts — Kai Huschke and Elliott Moffett — who have savvy insights and practical experience working to protect environments and establish…
Lessons from Ecuador
What will it take to advance the Rights of Nature in the United States?
Portrait of a water guardian – WT Interview with Tish O’Dell
What is the force that propels a woman forward in taking a courageous stand for water and the environment water creates? Here is what Tish…
Historic Rights of Nature Victory in Ecuador
The plaintiffs were able to introduce scientific studies that supported their claims that current government regulations would harm the forest ecosystem and sacred species.
Just Compensation
The courts of the empire may rely on self-referential legalisms to declare that the original indigenous inhabitants never had legal claim to ownership of the…
Guest Blog: How Qualified Immunity Subverts the Rule of Law
This guest submission was originally given as a graduation address on police reform. The author argues, our informed consent is what legitimizes government. And so…
Guest Blog: Energy Democracy: Community Rights in New Hampshire
By Barbara Peterson Nottingham, New Hampshire is fighting for a clean and healthy community Energy democracy works for local control of our energy sources. The…
CELDF Endorses Proposal for Universal Declaration of the Rights of Wetlands
A group of authors organized through the Society of Wetland Scientists have developed a proposal for a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Wetlands. CELDF…
Truthout: The American Petroleum Institute Is Working to Kill Voting on Local Measures
Over the past five years, organizers in seven Ohio communities (three cities, four counties) have qualified ballot measures to recognize enforceable rights of ecosystems and…
CELDF Statement on Orange County, FL ‘Rights of Nature’ Law
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) has prepared the following statement in response to the passage of the Wekiva River and Econlockhatchee River Bill…
Blog: Change History
The collective effort to dismantle oppressive and racist systems relies on decentralizing power. Only when we understand the importance of community control can we envision…
WANTED: Local Officials Willing to Fight the Corporate State to Protect People and the Environment During a Pandemic
The system is constructed to disempower communities, to the detriment of people and the planet. That is why we need to fight back and why…
Guest Blog: The Prison-Industrial Complex & Immigration Detention
The United State’s system of racist mass incarceration serves to control the political wishes of the American people. The immigration detention and deportation pipeline denies…
GUEST BLOG: Making Corporate America Safe for Democracy
A critical look at labor equity in America is long overdue. The relationship between empoyer and employee should not be that of master and servant…
Securing #MeToo
The #MeToo movement will prove only to be a passing moment in history unless women are the ones making governing decisions that impact them.
Blog: Crisis Calls for More Democracy, Not Less
Financial and environmental crises call for more democracy - not less. Yet we see these crises used by U.S. and state governments to suspend democracy.…
Blog: Dillon’s Rule Under Scrutiny in Virginia
Progressives may find Democratic wins favorable. But as long as Dillon's Rule (legalized state preemption) stops local community self-government from heightening environmental and economic protections,…
Blog: A Fundamentally Humanizing Agenda
The current administration wants a crackdown on people experiencing homelessness. It's time, instead, for a humanizing agenda, such as that advanced by Denver residents this…
In Plain Sight
Since its inception, a state-wide movement in Ohio has faced a state and corporate attack that amounts to concerted opposition from all branches of state…
Blog: It’s Time: Rights of Nature in the UK.
As we begin a sixth mass extinction, we must act now to change our trajectory. In this guest blog, Susan Shaw urges the UK to…
Blog: The Federalists Betrayed the Revolution We Celebrate on July 4th
As we celebrate July 4th, let us remember that the ideal of the American Revolution have yet to be realized. There are communities today fighting…
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