Wednesday, July 20, 2022 at 6:30 PM Eastern Time Sierra Club Niagara Group Environmental Series: Rights of Nature Legislation with Dr. Joe Stahlman, Tish O’Dell…
Available Now: English Translation & Webinar of the Landmark Decision in Ecuador to Protect Los Cedros Forest over Mining Profits
We at CELDF were excited to be able to read the full decision of the Constitutional Court of Ecuador upholding the rights of the Los Cedros…
Wouldn’t You Say? – Personhood
The Right of Free Speech Includes the Right to Clean Air to Speak With Look, if corporate property can be called a legal person, and…
A Living Tribute to Philip Jurus
In February 2019, just days before the Toledo special election on the Lake Erie Bill of Rights in Toledo Ohio, Philip Jurus heard an interview…
What do we want? Clean Water! When do we want it? Yesterday!
Our communities deserve more than just the right to Clean Water; our entire ecosystem, our Mother Earth depends on us to end the poisoning. It…
Building Our Children’s Trust Needs to Start With Reality
While we’re being told by scientific authority that decisive action to reduce carbon emissions is mandatory within the 2020’s, the legal theory underlying Juliana is…
A Court Hearing for Grant Township: Eight Years Later, and Still No Injection Well
As many are aware, CELDF has stood with the people and ecosystems of Grant Township (Indiana County, PA, population 700) in their courageous efforts to…
It’s Not All Bad
Over the last 15 years, grassroots work that establishes rights for human and natural communities has expanded in ways that no one could have foreseen.…
Less is More: Confronting the American Nightmare of Stuff
The system has worked hard to create obedience in a number of ways and to cover up and misdirect the true impacts of what our…
Some things never change, but we better start!
"Claiming to fight for clean water because the human community depends on clean water to bring in more tourism or that we need to destroy…
Grant Township is fighting back | PennLive letters
April 20th is a big day in Harrisburg for the rights of communities to defend their water from industrial pollution. For years Grant Township, in…
INVISIBLE HAND film viewing and discussion, June 12th
If corporations have rights, why not Nature? Join the Virginia Community Rights Network (VACRN) and its partner organizations for the virtual viewing and discussion of…
The Ohio River Watershed: How to Keep it Healthy
PART 2: WHO SPEAKS FOR NATURE? APRIL PUBLIC FORUM – Women’s City Club of Greater CincinnatiTUESDAY, APRIL 19, 7 PM via ZOOM The forum will…
Earth Emancipation Now!
Earth Emancipation Now! Synopsis: The American Empire was built on the model of European colonialism and the enclosure of the Commons. The Federalists, who crafted…
Earth Day Film Presentation at the Taos Center for the Arts in New Mexico on April 23rd 10 AM
A showing of the documentary “The Invisible Hand” at the Taos Center for the Arts in New Mexico will take place, with its producer, Melissa…
DAMAGES Podcast: The Backlash
Episode DescriptionIn 2019, after a decade-long campaign, voters in Toledo Ohio voted to approve the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, effectively giving the lake personhood.…
Portland Democracy School: May 2022
Join our community partner as they host a Portland Democracy School event.
OHCRN 2022 Empowering Community Film Festival: Santiago Rising
Filmed during the weeks after protests began, Santiago Rising meets social movements, protesters, and ordinary people in their struggle for equality and human rights. The film charts…
Podcast with GrassRoot Ohio: Death by Democracy- Episode 2 – w/ Tish O’Dell
Carolyn Harding with Tish O’Dell, a powerful voice for justice in Ohio, the US, and Globally. Tish has been a Community Organizer for CELDF (Community…
Lucrative Losses & Poisonous Profits Symposium: An Overview of the Domestic and Global Exploitation of Nature and the Way Forward
CELDF's Tish O'Dell is speaking on Panel #4, “Contamination of Water.” This Panel will take place on Friday, March 25 from 11:40 AM - 12:45…
LEBOR like bill in New York seeks Rights of Nature for Great Lakes
New York State Assemblyman Patrick Burke, a 37-year-old Democrat from the Buffalo area, has introduced legislation “that will create a Great Lakes Bill of Rights…
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