...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…
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Webinar: Nature’s Rebellion Against the Corporate State
...Register for Module One - A Community's Voice in the Rebellion. Sign up for the first module in this three part webinar focused on Lake…
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…
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....
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…
July 2013 CELDF Update
“Protecting the Rights of Nature: From Concept to Success” featuring Will Falk
...how they can support the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe with the Tribe’s rights of river herring efforts. The Tribe resolved in 2023 to pass a rights…
Media Release: New Hampshire Community Rights Amendment Hijacked by Party Politics
The New Hampshire Community Rights Amendment, CACR8, went before the state House of Representatives last week. It was blocked from advancing to a vote by…
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…
Rights of Mother Earth International Indigenous Conference: Understanding Rights, Respect, and Reciprocity
Tom Goldtooth opens the last day of the Rights of Mother Earth International Indigenous Conference at the Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, KS. CELDF's Ben…
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…
Envision Spokane: Neighborhood Rights, Not Corporate Developer Rights
Today, corporate developers have more rights than our neighborhoods. Prop. 1 would require developers to obtain neighborhood approval for zoning changes involving significant development. It…
Invisible Hand Screening: Rights of Nature Network Atlantic Canada
...Nature and asserting their Community Rights. Can we join the Rights of Nature movement and build the local power necessary to stop the corporate assault…
Press Release: Election 2019 – Corporations Are Determining What Gets Voted On
Oregon Community Rights Organizer Featured in New Documentary ‘THE PEOPLE vs. AGENT ORANGE’
...features Carol Van Strum, an active participant in Community Rights and Rights of Nature organizing in Oregon. Join the premiere virtually for Oregon audiences at…
Wouldn’t You Say? – Municipal Maze
...even more crazy, violating the civil rights of the corporation. You say, “What civil rights violation? We’re not discriminating against the corporation’s race, gender, or…
Suggested Reading: The Politics of Rights of Nature
...citizens have formed a global movement to advance Rights of Nature as a solution to the environmental crises facing the planet. They compare successful and…
Rights of Nature: Ohio Organizer Tish O’Dell on Top of Mind with Julie Rose
...or forest or river the same status? Ohio organizer Tish O'Dell talks about Toledo's groundbreaking law - the Lake Erie Bill of Rights - and…
Press Release: Corporate Actors Challenged in Lincoln County, OR: Ecosystem, Petitioners Defend Ordinance
...banning aerially sprayed pesticides as a violation of people’s right to clean air, water, and soil and natural ecosystems’ rights. The Siletz River ecosystem was…
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