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Press Release: Coos Bay Estuary Speaks Out Against FERC
Staying Home with Josh Fox: Preemption and Property Rights
Ben Price discusses Rights of Nature and how the concepts of preemption, claimed corporate rights, and property rights challenge local democracy and ecosystem rights....
Press Release: Democracy Challenged in Williams County, Petitioners Appeal to Ohio Supreme Court Again
Wouldn’t You Say? – The Law Did not Save Grant Township’s Water, the People of Grant Did
...souls an affront to the rights of the community, and their attack on the municipality’s home rule charter an assault on democracy. Grant Township was…
Restructuring Ohio State Government
It’s Not All Bad
...~ Continued below ~ Michelle Sanborn “Community Rights” A poem by Michelle Sanborn, CELDF “Community Rights” is a reflection of the journey I’ve witnessed as…
International Work
Some things never change, but we better start!
...criticism, anger, and the shocking experience of being blackballed from environmental forums. At the beginning of my current work with Community Rights and Rights of…
November Elections Update
Blog: We Stand With the Youth Climate Strike
CELDF stands with Youth Climate Strike as they demand systemic change, including legal Rights of Nature....
Newsletter: Ohio Update
...together in 2013 to form a network, the Ohio Community Rights Network (OHCRN). In 2019 they jointly filed a civil rights lawsuit against the state.…
Interview on the Great Lakes and NY State Waters Bill of Rights: Does Nature Have Rights?
...Max Wilbert, Publicist for CELDF on the NYS Assembly Bill AO5156A, the Great Lakes and State Waters Bill of Rights, which is currently IN the…
Online Community Rights Workshop by CELDF
On August 25 at 7 PM (Pacific Time), Gold Bar Community Rights (GBCR) will host an online workshop by Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)…
CELDF Allies with the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature in Siena, Italy
...entity with fundamental rights. A Declaration drafted and adopted by participants can be read here: The Seed of Siena Declaration from the GARN Rights of…
Center for Humans & Nature: Does Fracking Violate Human Rights?
Check out the stories being submitted as evidence this week at the international Permanent People's Tribunal, where the PPT is considering fracking, climate change, and…
Press Release: Grant Township Moves to Dismiss PA DEP Lawsuit
...Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is building a movement for Community Rights and the Rights of Nature to advance democratic, economic, social, and environmental rights…
ZNet Articles: Capitalism’s Missing Persons – Disappearing the Homeless, Immigrants, Native and Rural Communities, To Complete the Enclosure of the Commons
...property conveys legal rights to otherwise naturally rightless humans. Under this paradigm, rights are not conveyed to humans as a birthright. Citizenship and associated legal…
Bellingham Community Rights vs. Corporate Rights
Why support Bellingham, WA's Community Bill of Rights? Suzanne Ravet, a member of Coal-Free Bellingham, gives her account. Read more here from Northwest Citizen....
Conservation Today: Kai Huschke and the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
“Kai Huschke, with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, talks to us about the hierarchy of community rights, states rights, and corporate rights. We look…
Benton County Community Rights Coalition co-founder Clint Lindsey on TVSet to talk about Community Rights vs. GMOs
...and food systems in the Willamette Valley. The summit was co-sponsored by CELDF, Benton County Community Rights Coalition, Oregon Tilth, Oregonians for Farm and Food…
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