A Blog Posting by Thomas Linzey of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from November 9, 2017. While I shouldn’t be surprised anymore when someone at a conference asks why CELDF’s community organizing doesn’t take on capitalism directly, the question still startles me. The intimation is that our work nibbles around the edges, rather than being focused [...]
A Blog Posting by Thomas Linzey of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from October 17, 2017. Funny how projects that would be holocausts for Earth never seem to stay dead. Look no further than the proposed Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay in southwestern Alaska. In 2002, after deposits of copper, gold, and molybdenum were confirmed to the [...]
Blog Posting by Thomas Linzey of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from October 10, 2017. When former Superbowl quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem over a year ago, I don’t think anyone could have predicted what would happen next. Whether that would have been one of the singers of the anthem [...]
A Blog Posting by Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from August 7, 2017. Communities across the country face preemption by their own state and federal governments as they fight to protect themselves from environmental harms, religious persecution, gender and sexual orientation discrimination, and economic exploitation. Communities adopt laws to advance rights and protect their [...]
A Blog Posting by Michelle Sanborn of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from May 4, 2017. The New England Blizzard of 2017 – who here will ever forget it? The late-season Nor’easter that dumped over a foot of snow in some places, caused road accidents and power outages, and had winds blowing over 50 mph – on [...]
A Blog Posting by Kai Huschke of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from May 3, 2017. Proponents of “small” government are making headway: 29 states have signed on to calling for a constitutional convention. Thirty-four states trigger such a gathering. Behind the controversial efforts are ALEC and the Koch Brothers, well known for supporting corporate interests at [...]
A Blog Posting by Tish O'Dell and Emelyn Lybarger of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from April 3, 2017. The authors question whether it's a genuine win or not. Courageous Colorado youth who are challenging fracking in their state celebrated the decision of the Colorado Court of Appeals last week: the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission [...]
A Blog Posting by Ben Price of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from April 2, 2017. This blog was first published in Pathways Magazine., pages 37 to 39. The attack on so-called “undocumented” people, and the cult of fear evangelized so effectively by Donald Trump, have led people of conscience to propose and in some places to [...]
A Blog Posting by Mari Margil of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from February 17, 2017. The United States Supreme Court once wrote: “The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times.” Slaves saw great injustice in their own time. Women, Native Americans, African Americans, the LGBTQ [...]
A Blog Posting by Ben Price of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from January 15, 2017. Just who are the legislators protecting when they enact legislation that forbids local law making – law making that limits or bans corporate activities like fracking, GMOs, factory farms, retail proliferation of plastic bags or sewage sludge dumping? Just who [...]
