A Blog Posting by guest writer Melanie Strickland of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from February 17, 2017.
As CELDF’s work grows in the United States, we are also working with communities and groups in Nepal, Australia, the United Kingdom, and other countries to advance community rights and the rights of nature.
As in the U.S., we are seeing a growing resistance to environmental laws and legal systems around the world that protect endless growth and extraction over the needs and rights of communities and nature.
We’re very pleased to bring you the story below of people in the UK who are rising up in resistance, and who are finding that they face a very similar structure of law at home as we face in the U.S. – a structure that stands in the way of democratic rights and sustainability. The history of how and why we got where we are today – such that corporate rights override community rights, and nature is treated as property – is long…Magna Carta long…
To read the entire Blog, click HERE.