Our legal system needs a radical overhaul that asserts the rights of the whole ecosystem. A forthcoming conference will discuss the set out the vision for a Wild Law. This article by Shehana Gomez appeared in The Ecologist, August 27th, 2018. Re-wilding the Law might sound like an odd proposition, even a contradiction. Law is not [...]
This letter to the editor by Thomas Linzey appeared in the Lagniappe Weekly, August 22nd, 2018. Editor: Having been born and raised in Mobile, I have fond memories of summer days spent playing in Dauphin Island’s surf, exploring Gaillard Island and walking the boardwalks over Mobile Bay. Due to the far-seeing acts of pioneering environmental [...]
A Blog Posting by Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from August 13th, 2018. Government exists to protect our rights, health, safety, and welfare We have government to protect our rights, health, safety, and welfare. That’s fundamental to our theory of government. When a legislature enacts a law that isn’t rationally connected to [...]
Four rivers around the world now have legal rights. But what are the implications of rights for nature for international environmental law? This short essay by Mara Tignino and Laura E. Turley appeared in The Revelator, August 6th, 2018. Last year, four rivers were granted legal rights: the Whanganui in New Zealand, Rio Atrato in Colombia, and the Ganga and [...]
This Op-Ed by Bill Lyons appeared in the August issue of the Columbus Free Press. Most Columbus residents assume that our city is safe from the fracking industry. It is not. There are currently 13 injection wells of toxic radioactive frack waste in the Upper Scioto Watershed area, Columbus’ source water protection area. This waste [...]
Watch and read (also below) Charlotte Owen's 3-minute testimony in front of the Columbus City Council HERE. This testimony was given on July 30th, 2018, and was published a day later on YouTube. Columbus City Council Speech By Charlotte Owens 7/30/18 “President Hardin and members of City Council, I am here today to speak in [...]
Stopping the Martin Marietta gravel mine, the expansion of Gross Dam, and ending fossil fuel extraction by a direct fight against corporate power. This blog post by Cliff Willmeng appeared on the Willmeng For Boulder County Commissioner website, July 17, 2018. All of these projects share a conflict regarding local authority nearly identical to the [...]
This guest editorial by Douglas Darrell of the National Community Rights Network (NCRN) appeared in The Laconia Daily Sun, July 9th, 2018. Guest commentary by Community Rights US Media Team member Curt Hubatch: To build a movement to elevate Community Rights over corporate rights it will take thousands of letters like Douglas Darrell's written and [...]
A Blog Posting by Ben Price of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from June 29th, 2018. If you’re an American citizen without a home or bank account, a prisoner incarcerated in the American Gulag, or an immigrant with no “documentation,” you have few rights in the United States. Property defines who will and won’t be considered a [...]
An original essay by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) posted on June 29th, 2018. When the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4th, 1776, it was the work of many hands. Thomas Jefferson gets the credit, but the people of more than ninety towns and counties throughout the colonies had sent instructions [...]
