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About CELDF
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is helping build a decolonial movement for Community Rights and the Rights of Nature to advance democratic, economic,…
2018 Historic Vote in New Hampshire
...Recognizes that people, communities, and natural environments have rights to health, safety, and welfare, and the authority to prohibit corporate activities that violate those rights.…
Press Release: First Rights of Nature Easement Established in Hawaii
...rights…economic, social and cultural rights…and environmental rights.” “The Rights of Nature easement is a bold first step in a broader legal and cultural paradigm shift,”…
Rights of Nature FAQs
What does "Rights of Nature" mean, and why do need them? Understand Rights of Nature with these FAQs....
Board & Staff
...the Oregon Community Rights Network and Washington Community Rights Network. He teaches, presents, and writes extensively on movement building, community rights, rights of nature, and…
CELDF’s Proposed Rights of Nature Principles
...which they exist; and the rights of each being are limited by the rights of other beings and any conflict between their rights must be…
Fighting to Protect our Seed Heritage in Benton County: Clinton Lindsey of Willamette Valley, OR and co-founder of the Benton County Community Rights Coalition, is interviewed on Locus Focus.
Clinton Lindsey is interviewed by Barbara Bernstein of KBOO Community Radio about Benton County Community Rights Coalition, formed to protect Willamette Valley from GMO seed…
Corporations and Natural Rights By Charles A. Beard
Counter Punch: CELDF and the Rights of Nature
...legal entity with rights. Just as human rights are enshrined in law to protect individuals, the rights of the natural world also need to be…
Press Release: Historic Vote on Community Rights State Constitutional Amendment in NH Legislature
The New Hampshire legislature takes an historic vote on the first Community Rights state constitutional amendment considered by a state legislature....
Blog: Ceiling Preemption: A Weapon Against Democracy
State and federal governments use ceiling preemption to suppress rights. It's time for communities to use floor preemption to stop harm and expand rights....
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…
Press Release: Green Party of England and Wales Adopts Rights of Nature Policy – CELDF Assisted in Drafting New Rights-Based Plank
...draft a Rights of Nature policy platform, which was adopted by the Party on Sunday. The policy calls for the recognition of the rights of…
Press Release: First Rights of Nature Easement Established in Hawaii
As part of the growing Rights of Nature movement, the first conservation easement in Hawaii recognizing the Rights of Nature now protects 8 acres of…
Press Release: “A Bright Spot Amidst the Chaos” – From New York to Minnesota, the Rights of Nature are Growing
...rights of nature law passed in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, which was the first time rights of nature were recognized in any western legal system. “Tamaqua didn’t…
Blog: Ganga’s Rights are Our Rights
CELDF is partnering with local groups and NGOs in India to advance the rights of the Ganges River through the National Ganga River Rights Act....
Earth Defenders Warn Against Democrats Undermining ‘Rights of Nature’ Movement With Watered-Down Approach
Rights of Nature advocates caution against handing over Rights of Nature oversight to the Democratic Party....
CELDF Statement: Spokane Initiative Decision
In the face of corporations and government joining together to suppress the democratic rights of the people of Spokane, WA, to vote on a Community…
Statement of County Commissioner John Olivas, Chairman, Mora County, New Mexico Board of Commissioners
...have their Community Bill of Rights Ordinance banning fracking overturned. Only through standing together, he says, can we recreate “we the people,” and begin to…
CELDF Blog: From Absurd and Far-Fetched to Inalienable
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