In the first part of the program, author and Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund’s education director Ben Price joins the program to talk about his…
New Book Reflects on 30 Years of Activism for Community and Nature’s Rights
Author, Ben Price, was interviewed on the Project Censored Show by Eleanor Goldfield about his new book, Wouldn’t You Say, A Collection of Essays on Environment…
Order Your Copy Today of CELDF’s New 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…
Industrial Society Needs Cultural Transformation to Embrace Rights of Nature
That Begins with the Stories we Tell . . . CELDF’s Education Director, Ben G. Price, is a pioneer in establishing the legal Rights of…
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…
Book: ‘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…
Susquehanna, Vol. 24, Issue 3
Our newsletter, the Susquehanna, comes out 2 – 3 times annually. If you are interested in receiving the newsletter – either electronically or by mail –…
BOOK: 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…
Legal Self Defense
Legal Self Defense understands that the U.S. Constitution guarantees neither fairness nor safety, but that de-escalation skills coupled with some targeted legal knowledge can improve…
Book: The Politics of Rights of Nature
How Rights of Nature laws are transforming governance to address environmental crises through more ecologically sustainable approaches to development.
Susquehanna, Vol. 24, Issue 2
Our newsletter, the Susquehanna, comes out 2 – 3 times annually. If you are interested in receiving the newsletter – either electronically or by mail –…
Susquehanna, Vol. 24, Issue 1
Our newsletter, the Susquehanna, comes out 2 – 3 times annually. If you are interested in receiving the newsletter – either electronically or by mail –…
Common Sense – New Edition!
Trying to protect your community from environmental harms such as fracking, or social justice harms, such as unfair elections? Check out Common Sense.
A New Phase
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund was founded as a conventional environmental law firm (phase one). As it discovered how regulatory law is fixed to…
CELDF REPORT: What Wasn’t Voted On (2020)
A new Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund report details the repression of ballot initiatives in 2020.
CELDF REPORT: Corporations Are Suing Cities Across the USA
A new Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund report details a standard operating procedure of how corporate interests, and the politicians who serve them, retain power.
Living in the COVID Era
Since a national emergency was called in the United States in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, corporate interests—and politicians doing their bidding—have engaged in aggressive…
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…
Susquehanna, Vol. 22, Issue 1
CELDF, our partner communities, and allies made remarkable advancements in Community Rights and Rights of Nature this year. Together—despite corporate and state level efforts to…
How Wealth Rules the world
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…
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.
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