CELDF is covered in a chapter in this new book!
The timely book from The New Press highlights powerful grassroots campaigns and strategies from across the continent. It includes a chapter on CELDF’s efforts to ‘decolonize the law.’
Collecting interviews, journalistic reports, first-person essays, and artwork, editor Audrea Lim touches on a wide range of topics, including the history of the White Earth Nation’s food sovereignty campaigns, a fight to protect water from profiteers in Milwaukee, poor sanitation in rural communities, climate preparedness in Savannah, Georgia, and opposition to industries that threaten the health and well being of communities who are disproportionately Black, Indigenous, and people of color. The book showcases the racial, socioeconomic, and cultural diversity of the modern-day environmental justice movement. Stories give a behind-the-scenes look at organizing and strategies that have been in the works for years and decades.
The book includes a chapter on “CELDF’s Effort to Decolonize the Law.” The chapter highlights lawmaking campaigns from Denver, CO, the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, Toledo, OH, Spokane, WA, and Mora County, NM. It incorporates perspective on what it means to “decolonize law” from Rebecca Tsosie, a constitutional and Indigenous law scholar of Yaqui descent, and Phil Bluehouse, a member of the Navajo Commission on Self-Governance and former director of the Navajo Judicial Peacemaking Program. CELDF’s Simon Davis-Cohen contributed the chapter.
The New Press is teaming up with The New School and Fix, Grist’s Solutions Lab to highlight stories from the book and deepen the conversation. The goal is to make this book a tool to help weave movements together and to uplift local stories of environmental justice, action and thinking. Visit their interactive website: https://theworldweneed.com/…
See the full Press Release HERE.