We help communities create & defend their rights.
We assist communities to develop first-in-the-nation, groundbreaking laws for worker rights, houseless rights, democratic rights, and the Rights of Nature. We also provide free and low-cost legal services, grassroots organizing, and education support, to communities and governments facing injustice. Contact us now.
EARTH DAY-ZED AND CONFUSED
essays, poetry, blogs, music, and more by CELDF staff
While people around the world celebrate the planet we’re collectively killing and simultaneously trying to save, CELDF is looking forward and back, contemplating where we’ve been and where, if anywhere, we’re going. Over the upcoming weeks, we’ll share our thoughts, analysis, creativity and retrospectives. Stay in touch and share your thoughts with us…we really are all in this one together.
Blogs
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…
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Blogs
Guest Blog: Community Rights in Buffalo, NY
Systems change doesn’t hinge on electing the right candidate – it’s advanced most forcefully when organized communities engage in direct action.
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News from the Grassroots
CELDF’s 2024 “Vote for the People!” Update Report
Summer is fading away. School is back in full swing. Electoral politics are in full…
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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…
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Tribal Sovereignty, White Man’s Reservations, and the Need for Tribal-Municipal Solidarity To Protect Our Collective Future
Feature photo by Samuel Regan-Asante on Unsplash Opposing harmful industrial projects – like mines, aerial…
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The Killing of Lake Erie and Discovering Right Relationship Ten Years Later
On August 2, 2014, Toledo residents awoke to government alerts to not drink, bathe, use…
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CELDF Response to “Can granting legal ‘personhood’ to nature stem biodiversity loss?” by Viktoria Kahui
The prospect of liability introduced by conferral of personhood status monetizes the relationship between humans…
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Should Rivers & Trees Have Rights?
On May 20, 2024, Rockland Sierra Club, Lower Hudson Group and ROAR (Religious Orders Along…
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Fast Facts
Our Fast Facts are quick introductions to big ideas and concepts tackled by the Community Rights Movement! Check out our Fast Facts and find resources to more information to further your knowledge on the topics! Watch them all here.
Rights of Nature
Community Rights
Box of Allowable Activism
[The Community Rights and Rights of Nature movement] is the beginning of a social movement that is greater than just the oil and gas industry, it is a potential game changer for all of corporate America.
Independent Petroleum Association of New Mexico