This 16 minute interview with Kai Huschke, Pacific Northwest organizer with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), was published on KBOO FM’s website on April 9th, 2020.
“[There is an opportunity] for communities, whether it’s small ones, or even larger cities, to really take the reins and say ‘no, we clearly need more power to protect ourselves, to evolve ourselves, and there have been a massive failure — systemically-induced really — at the state and federal level, and it’s time we have a different paradigm.’” — Quote from the interview
Program description: The coronavirus pandemic has opened up different avenues of thinking, including about the environment. KBOO’s Jenka Soderberg interviews a regional representative from the CELDF about how this pandemic has managed to open up the conversation about the Rights of Nature as a legal framework for protecting the environment.
According to their website, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is building a movement for Community Rights and the Rights of Nature to advance democratic, economic, social, and environmental rights – building upward from the grassroots to the state, federal, and international level.
(To listen and download this interview at its original source please click HERE.)