Feature photo by Christine Roy Like Junk Mail, Junk Speech is Trash Talk Freedom of speech isn’t what it used to be. Toward the end…
The Great Salt Lake is Disappearing… So Utah Bans Rights of Nature.
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…
CELDF Co-sponsoring Justin Nobel’s Musical Book Tour: Petroleum-238
Book cover design by Sabrina Bedford, cover photo by Julie Dermansky Thursday, May 16 from 2-3:30 pm at moCa Cleveland in Cleveland, OH CELDF and moCa Cleveland…
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? – 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…
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.”
Unrepentant and Vindicated: Proposed Frack-Waste Injection Well in Grant Township to be Plugged and Abandoned
To date, 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…
Watch the video: “Water is Us”
“Water Is Us” was moderated by ORCRN’s board member and CELDF organizer Kai Huschke. Joining him was: On February 22nd the ORCRN’s Webinar Wednesday meandered through a variety of…
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.
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…
Do No Harm: Protecting the Rights of Mangroves in Ecuador From Injury
Mangroves, according to the Ramsar definition, are considered wetlands - an area that CELDF is also helping to evolve coming out of the Declaration of the Rights of…
Wouldn’t You Say? – Personhood
The Right of Free Speech Includes the Right to Clean Air to Speak With Look, if corporate property can be called a legal person, and…
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