In Who Gets to Be Indian?, scholar and writer Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) explores how ethnic fraud and the commodification of Indianness has resulted in mass…
Suggested Reading – How to Survive: Practicing Care in a Changing Climate
It’s not just a book; it’s a collective invitation to reclaim our future through collaboration and care.
NY Rights of Nature and Local Self-Governance Workshop – August 14, 2025
Our goal is to assist others in NY educate their community about the bill and also to inform residents of other states as they contemplate…
Suggested Reading – Climate Mobilities
The final chapter, “Exist, Flourish, Evolve,” brings together CELDF’s Tish O’Dell with artist Andrea Bowers and curator Megan Reich to reflect on what it means…
CELDF’s 2025 Mid-year Impact Report
CELDF’s 2025 Mid-Year Impact Report Get Caught Up. Spread the Word. Give Generously. Celebrate CELDF’s 30th Anniversary!
CounterPunch: Moving Beyond Protest
July 22, 2025 by Kai Huschke Protests over the last 6 years The sheer number of protests in the first six months of 2025 resulting…
Press Release: “Solidarity Against Tyranny” Brings Together Activists from the Philippines and Appalachia
On July 21st, a special live streaming event will bring together grassroots activists from these places to share their experiences of repression and resistance. The event,…
Online Event: Solidarity Against Tyranny: Frontline Resistance Insights from the Philippines and Appalachian South
On July 21st at 6pm PDT / 9pm EDT, we invite you to join us for a special event, “Solidarity Against Tyranny,” to help answer…
CELDF Publication – Can You Handle the Truth? E-book and Paperback
Can You Handle the Truth? – Essays of Hard Truths Aimed at Right Relationship with Earth and Each Other Can You Handle the Truth? is…
CELDF Publication – Wouldn’t You Say?
The essays in Wouldn’t You Say? ask challenging questions about modern society, our relationship to each other, and to the natural world. Order Your Copy…
Reckoning with the truth to get in right relationship with the Great Lakes
CELDF and partners hosted Truth, Reckoning, and Right Relationship with the Great Lakes in the fall of 2023 to wrestle with the questions of law…
Suggested Reading – Ogden: A Tale for the End of Time
"Ogden: A Tale for the End of Time" is a coming of age story that reveals industrial society needs cultural transformation to embrace rights of…
CELDF Publication – Death by Democracy
Protecting Water and Life: Frontline Stories from Ohioans fighting corporate and state power This book features frontline stories from a movement fighting corporate and state…
Suggested Reading – One-Block Revolution
CELDF’s Kai Huschke was centrally involved in the first-in-the-nation Community Bill of Rights and Worker Bill of Rights. His chapter for the new book One-Block…
CELDF Publication – How to Protect Your Community: Enact Local Democracy Now!
To advance political education in the Granite State, the New Hampshire Community Rights Network (NHCRN) has compiled an in-depth booklet to explore a transformation of…
Suggested Reading – The World We Need: Highlights, Stories and Lessons From America’s Unsung Environmental Movement
The World We Need offers a vivid look at the people protecting America’s communities against environmental degradation and racism. Their strategies for saving lives, protecting…
Suggested Reading – How Dams Fall
“The Colorado River speaks,” Will Falk insists in How Dams Fall. Written while Falk was involved in the first-ever American federal lawsuit seeking personhood and…
Suggested Reading – How Wealth Rules the world: Saving our Communities and Freedoms from The Dictatorship of Property
CELDFs national organizing director, Ben Price, reveals that our constitution and legal system were intentionally designed to give more rights to the wealthy propertied class…
CELDF Publication – Rebelling Against the Corporate State
Our popular Community Rights Papers were printed between 2014 - 2017 and re-frame contemporary and historical events through a Community Rights lens.
CELDF Publication – On Community Civil Disobedience in the Name of Sustainability
Our existing system of law is aimed at constant growth, development, and extraction – and conventional environmental advocacy works around the edges of this system,…
CELDF Publication – The People’s Right to Local Community Self-Government
This legal brief explains how the right of local, community self-government is not a new right, but one that is natural, inherent, and inalienable, belonging…
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