This episode of "Good Food," hosted by Evan Kleiman, was broadcast by KCRW on July 23, 2021 “We need to do something different,” says Thomas Linzey, Senior Legal Counsel at the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights. He works globally and nationally to advance the “rights of nature,” stepping into the shoes of ecosystems to [...]
This story aired on Florida NPR member stations WMFE and WMFV on July 22, 2021. By a margin of nearly 90 percent, Orange County voters approved a charter amendment last November aimed at protecting the “rights of nature.” Now, backers are taking the issue statewide by pushing five amendments to the Florida constitution. WMFE environmental [...]
Posted by CELDF Jun 29, 2020 Corporations are suing communities. And those corporations have rights under the Constitution and in law. The communities, largely, do not. CELDF organizer, Chad Nicholson, joins Thom Hartmann to discuss the findings of the June 2020 CELDF Report: Corporations Are Suing Cities Across the USA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_3gNyHxuK8#action=share posted originally by [...]
Published June 11, 2020 in Deceleration by Marisol Cortez In Spring of 2012, at the tail end of my time teaching in Lawrence, Kansas, I had the privilege of attending the Rights of Mother Earth Conference at Haskell Indian Nations University. I’d found my way to Haskell via the Wetlands Preservation Organization, where I fought [...]
This article by Jennifer Yachnin was published on E&E News's website on March 31st, 2014. On a local level, the work of Ben Price and his colleagues shows up under names like the Youngstown Community Bill of Rights or the Lafayette Community Rights Act. There was also the slightly clunkier Mora County Community Water Rights [...]
Stacey Schmader, Co-founder of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), offers us two provocative ideas in this three minute video: Walk away from Earth Day and the regulatory agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). She says they do more harm than good. We at Community Rights US invite you to give this video [...]
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 [...]
This article by Paul K. Haeder appeared in the Oregon Coast Today on October 14th, 2019. -- We meet at Oceana Natural Foods Co-op. Maria Sause will turn 77 December 9. Her face reflects five or six iterations of her life’s journey. Just four days 80 years ago could have changed this interview – she [...]
Patrick Farnsworth interviews Will Falk about his newly released book "How Dams Fall" and other essential Community Rights topics on his Last Born in the Wilderness podcast. It was published on July 29th, 2019. Below is the description of the interview. In this episode I speak with lawyer and radical environmental activist Will Falk. In [...]
This story and 5 minute video clip was posted on the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund's website on July 17th, 2019. Here is what CELDF had to say about it below. Lake Erie has rights, thanks to Toledo community members who partnered with CELDF and took action to protect the ecosystem and their sole source [...]
