We invite you to watch these videos of "Radical Visions Reconnecting Academia and Nature: A Community Truth, Reckoning and Right Relationship" from a two-day event…
2-PART TRAINING: People’s Assemblies and The Revolutionary Potential of Grassroots Power
Join us for a free two-part training on September 30th and October 6th to learn from two experts on people's assemblies: Dr. Camila Vergara, an academic and organizer who was deeply involved in numerous assemblies held in Chile between 2020 and 2022 as part of the effort to enact a transformative new constitutional structure, and Denzel Caldwell, an organizer with the Black Nashville Assembly working to build black political power in Tennessee.
Greenwashing: The Central Strategy of Next-Generation Industrialism with Max Wilbert
This was an international webinar for the People's Climate Summit held in Antalya, Turkey, parallel to COP31 in November, featuring Max Wilbert (CELDF's Co-coordinator of…
CELDF’s Training Series: Nonviolent Direct Action Skills with Lina Blount
This virtual training session is designed to equip you with the essential tools and strategies of powerful nonviolent direct action. Whether you consider yourself new…
“What Revolution? Systemic Racism, Sexism, and Genocide from America’s Beginning”
Watch this CELDF live-streamed conversation from May 7th 2026, on colonization and nationalist U.S. propaganda with Anne Keala Kelly and Dina Gilio-Whitaker.
JOIN CELDF LIVE ON MAY 7TH at 4pm ET! – Discussion on Systemic Racism, Sexism, Culturecide and Genocide from America’s Beginning
A LIVE STREAM Conversation with Keala Kelly (Kānaka Maoli) and Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) as part of our America 250: A Revolutionary Perspective series.
Humanists of Greater Portland talk by Kai Huschke
Kai Huschke explains why revolution is necessary and potentially successful.
Rights of Nature Event with CELDF’s Will Falk at Georgetown Law in Washington D.C.
Will Falk will explore the Rights of Nature in the context of American property law, where current legal frameworks fall short, and what it means…
NY Rights of Nature and Local Self-Governance Workshop – August 14, 2025
Our goal is to assist others in NY educate their community about the bill and also to inform residents of other states as they contemplate…
Online Event: Solidarity Against Tyranny: Frontline Resistance Insights from the Philippines and Appalachian South
On July 21st at 6pm PDT / 9pm EDT, we invite you to join us for a special event, “Solidarity Against Tyranny,” to help answer…
Lake Erie is Talking but We Aren’t Listening
Regional environmental leader Tish O’Dell spoke to Cleveland State students about the legal system’s failure to protect nature and the urgent need for cultural change.
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…
Press Release: Changing Culture, Changing Law through Art – Andrea Bowers and CELDF: Exist, Flourish, Evolve
Developed through an ongoing partnership with CELDF Exist, Flourish, Evolve is a new, multi-site, multimedia campaign that builds awareness and action around the dangers facing…
Raising Awareness through art – Andrea Bowers: Exist, Flourish, Evolve
The "Exist, Flourish, Evolve" art show will be held at The Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art and will focus on Rights of Nature and the…
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…
Conservation Today: Kai Huschke and the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
Kai Huschke, with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, talks to us about the hierarchy of community rights, states rights, and corporate rights.
Invisible Hand Screening: Rights of Nature Network Atlantic Canada
7:30 PM Atlantic Time (Canada) Join us for a virtual screening of the award-winning film Invisible Hand, a documentary exploring the global Rights of Nature movement,…
