The UCC hosts CELDFs Tish O'Dell for a Rights of Nature presentation. Watch the full webinar here!...
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Tribal Sovereignty, White Man’s Reservations, and the Need for Tribal-Municipal Solidarity To Protect Our Collective Future
...Erie Bill of Rights, which gave Lake Erie the rights to exist, flourish, and naturally evolve; gave the people of the City of Toledo the…
Envision Spokane: Community Rights, not Corporate Rights
It is time to reign in corporation so that they serve people, not the other way around. In Spokane, corporations are given the same legal…
Press Release: For All to See – Bias of New Hampshire Judiciary Exposed in Rights of Nature, Healthy Climate Proceedings
...rights of ecosystems “to naturally exist, flourish, regenerate, evolve, and be restored” and rights of townspeople to a “climate system capable of sustaining human societies.”…
Do No Harm: Protecting the Rights of Mangroves in Ecuador From Injury
...another distinct yet interconnected ecosystem’s rights. This decision not only recognizes the rights of mangroves by preventing harm, it is also holding those accountable for…
Taking back our rights to fish
The chain that ensures an orderly society; rights have to be rooted in responsibilities....
Tumbled by the surf: Figuring out which wave to ride next for recognizing rights
...Voting Rights Act (1965) and the Civil Rights Act (1968). None of these changes came easily, the marches, the protests, the court filings, the horrifying deaths…
A Closer Look: Exploring the Rights of Nature on June 3
A Live Q&A Session with CELDF organizers taking a Closer Look at the Rights of Nature....
Blog: Black History Month, White Supremacy, and Community Rights
Press Release: New Hampshire Supreme Court Gives Group Chance to Defend Right to a Healthy Climate Law from Corporate Lawsuit
...CELDF — Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is building a movement for Community Rights and the Rights of…
Read the Dirt: Does Food Sovereignty Exist in the United States? Food and the Community Rights Movement
Network Coordinator to Advance the New Hampshire Community Rights Network
CELDF announces Michelle Sanborn as our new New Hampshire Community Rights Network Coordinator. Michelle led her hometown of Alexandria, NH, in adopting a Community Bill…
Press Release: Grant Township Injection Well Ban Stands, Court Denies ‘Collateral Attack’ from DEP
...movement for Community Rights and the Rights of Nature to advance democratic, economic, social, and environmental rights – building upward from the grassroots to the…
Press Release: New Hampshire Supreme Court: Allow People to Defend Against Corporate Lawsuits
...movement for Community Rights and the Rights of Nature to advance democratic, economic, social, and environmental rights – building upward from the grassroots to the…
Pennsylvania’s Act 13 – Fracking
Blog: Fracking Resistance in the UK
The British are fighting to protect their communities from fracking, as we are in the U.S. We share a common history: the claimed rights of…
Press Release: Ohio Secretary of State Husted Tries to Quash Democracy – Again
Blog: A Fundamentally Humanizing Agenda
Press Release: Pennsylvania Township Bans Corporate Industrial Farming
Todd Township, PA, adopts a Community Rights law prohibiting industrial factory farming to protect their community and preserve local farming operations....
CELDF partner in Rights of Nature work, Fundacion Pachamama, Shut Down by Ecuadorian Government
CELDF Press Release: Las Vegas, New Mexico, Adopts Community Bill of Rights; Bans Corporations from Fracking for Shale Gas
In front of a standing-room only crowd of residents, by a vote of 3-1, the City Council, Las Vegas, New Mexico enacted the Las Vegas…
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