The Great Salt Lake. Image by Erin Testone. A growing number of American jurisdictions are outlawing Right of Nature as we embark on the greatest…
AM I AN ACTIVIST?
Testimony of a Community Organizer CELDF’s Consulting Director, Tish O’Dell, submitted her testimony, “Am I an Activist?” to the 2024 Spring Activism Peace Chronicle publication.…
CELDF’s Kai Huschke presents: Legalized Chemical Warfare – Community Resistance and Resilience to Protect the Future
In 2017 voters of Lincoln County adopted a community rights law banning aerial spray of pesticides by the corporate timber industry. CELDF was involved in assisting in…
Beaver Creek Press Release
100% of the water from the Seal Rock Water District (SRWD) comes from Beaver Creek.
Trust the Children, Not the System
Featured photo: The plaintiffs in Held v. State of Montana walking and chatting outside the courthouse. (Photo: Robin Loznak) It will take an extended commitment…
Wouldn’t You Say? – When Democracy is Privatized
The centuries-long Enclosure (privatization) Movement in the U. S. is nearing completion.
Wouldn’t You Say? – Ignorance as License
Anti-intellectualism is as American as hot dogs.
How Do We Speak for the Trees When Our Human Right to Free Speech is Cut Down?
In our legal system, one is either a legal subject (humans and corporations) or a legal object (nature)
15 Questions that Are More Useful than “What New Regulation Should We Fight For?”
Difficult as it may be, we’d all be better off focusing on how to change the legal system itself instead of pleading for stricter regulations.
Wouldn’t You Say? – The Law Did not Save Grant Township’s Water, the People of Grant Did
If the persistence of the people of Grant Township in pursuit of justice took ten years for them to prevail, it is because they insisted…
Free Speech Advocate Moves to Lift Gag Order Regarding Radioactive Brine Used on Roadways
“SLAPP suits are just another tool used by industry and corporations to silence and intimidate those who speak out against them and their activities,” stated…
Wouldn’t You Say? – The Invisible Empire in Plain Sight
The American dream has turned out to be a nightmare. Wouldn’t you say?
Group announces PGE to plug controversial well
According to the CELDF, “not a single drop of frack waste has been injected within the township due to hard work, resistance and resilience.”
Toledo voters approved a bill of rights for Lake Erie. A group wants the same for the Ohio River
Feature photo by Bill Rinehart/WVXU “An advocacy group wants Cincinnati to recognize the right of the Ohio River to thrive. Members of Citizens for the…
The Trains Don’t Always Run on Time:
Yet the System Keeps Rolling, and We’re Just Collateral Damage
A more honest report on the East Palestine disaster and details how the system itself is to blame and why these horrific and deadly events…
Wouldn’t You Say? – Materialism is Substance Abuse, Literally
Let’s be generous and call the COP–15 agreement a plan for conserving 1% of Earth’s biodiversity. That means that negotiators agreed to sacrifice 99% of…
Grant’s Fight is Our Fight
As we head into the new year, please join us in continuing to stand with Grant Township. And let’s not only support them with words…
Press Release: Back to the Future — Ohioans Still Poisoned After All These Years
"The spreading of toxic and radioactive well waste brine on Ohio roads and other surfaces threatens all Ohioans,” stated FaCT Brine Education Committee Chair, Ron…
What do we want? Clean Water! When do we want it? Yesterday!
Our communities deserve more than just the right to Clean Water; our entire ecosystem, our Mother Earth depends on us to end the poisoning. It…
A Court Hearing for Grant Township: Eight Years Later, and Still No Injection Well
As many are aware, CELDF has stood with the people and ecosystems of Grant Township (Indiana County, PA, population 700) in their courageous efforts to…
Lucrative Losses & Poisonous Profits Symposium: An Overview of the Domestic and Global Exploitation of Nature and the Way Forward
CELDF's Tish O'Dell is speaking on Panel #4, “Contamination of Water.” This Panel will take place on Friday, March 25 from 11:40 AM - 12:45…
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