This audio interview with attorney Jason Flores Williams originally happened on Resistance Radio with Derrick Jensen September 10, 2017. Jason Flores-Williams is a noted civil rights attorney and author who has litigated some of the most important cases of our time. he has been featured on CNN, The New York Times, Washington Post and has given speeches [...]
On August 23, 2017, Stephanie Potter interviewed Paul Cienfuegos and Eva Hamilton about their soon-to-launch national Community Rights support organization based in Portland - Community Rights US. To listen to (or download) this hour-long interview on 'The Recovery Zone' show, click HERE.
Paul Cienfuegos was interviewed for the hour, with live call-in questions, on Mendocino County, California's, community radio station KZYX on April 25, 2017. The station has had a monthly show, 'Corporations & Democracy', for many many years. You can listen to the interview or download the podcast by going HERE. On that new page, scroll [...]
Paul Cienfuegos was invited to give an interactive Community Rights talk to 50 students at Joanna Macy's week-long residential training intensive in Mendocino County, California on July 13, 2016. Joanna was Paul's first significant mentor beginning when he was just 23 years old, and continuing to this very day. Paul taught Joanna almost everything she [...]
This audio interview with attorney Thomas Linzey originally happened on Resistance Radio with Derrick Jensen, June 19, 2016. Thomas Linzey is the executive director and an attorney for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, which has assisted close to 200 communities across the country in eight states to adopt binding local laws that elevate community [...]
Paul Cienfuegos was interviewed by Joe Meyer for the KBOO Evening News, about the current toxic air quality situation in parts of Portland that is substantially higher than is considered safe by existing state and federal air quality standards. Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has been allowing this outrage for many years, but it's [...]
On February 8, 2015, in the middle of a classic Midwest blizzard, 49 local Community Rights activists from about a dozen counties across rural Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, met for a full day in Whitehall, Wisconsin to educate themselves, to network with like minded people, and to build community. This was the informal network's second [...]
Thomas Linzey was interviewed by Paul Roland on the KBOO Radio show, Wednesday Morning Talk Radio, in 2014. Thomas Linzey is the Executive Director of Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. Listen to the entire 57 minute interview HERE.
A Panel Discussion at the Cascadia Rising bioregional confluence event at Portland State University in 2014. Panelists included Aurolyn Stwyer, Treothe Bullock, Paul Cienfuegos and Lucy Marie. Here's the text about this Panel Discussion from the conference program: This panel seeks to explore the positive and problematic intersections between Indigenous Sovereignty strategies and rights-based organizing [...]
Ben Price made a presentation and answered questions on a conference call with the local Community Rights group in Fairfield, Iowa, on February 25, 2014. This local group has written a draft ordinance that would prohibit any further CAFO's (factory farms) in Jefferson County, Iowa. Ben is the Projects Director of Community Environmental Legal Defense [...]
