First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
A Blog Posting by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from January 21, 2018.
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund in 1995
In the 1990’s, CELDF was a conventional environmental law firm. We believed that if only there were more environmental lawyers willing to work for free for communities fighting to stop harmful projects, then justice would get done. We did that work for a number of years.
In the process, we found that the environmental law system is rigged against communities and against the environment. It is a “permitting” system, after all, designed to permit environmental harms rather than prohibit them. It is a regulatory law system, but the only thing it really regulates is how the people try to defend ourselves from the corporate state. MORE…