Derrick Jensen interviews Ben Price, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund's (CELDF) national organizing director, about his newly published book, "How Wealth Rules the World: Saving our Communities and Freedoms from the Dictatorship of Property." on June 2nd, 2019. This 53 minute interview can be listened to and downloaded HERE and HERE. A bit about [...]
The Denver “Right to Survive” initiative lays out new enforceable human rights for people experiencing homelessness and gives them new standing in court to sue when their rights are violated. It would have overturned a city law that bans resting and sheltering in public spaces. Wealthy interests out raised local supporters 23:1 to defeat the measure. [...]
This article by Josh McCormack appeared in Salud America! on May 23rd, 2019. Crystal Jankowski ran the faucet in her hospital room for 12 hours straight the day she gave birth — all in hopes that the tap water would come out clean for Amelia, her newborn girl. Just days before her [...]
This press release was released by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund on May 21, 2019. Crackdowns on local democracy are accelerating, as corporate and state interests continue efforts to repress social movements. In this well-timed book, How Wealth Rules the World, Ben Price presciently reveals structures of power and law that facilitate blatant corporate supremacy in [...]
This article by Mike Ferner appeared on Counter Punch on May 15th, 2019. A rare, hybrid environmental campaign is underway to save a great lake – in fact, a Great Lake – Erie. That grand body of water, declared dead in the late 1960s experienced a textbook turnaround by the mid-80s, but is once again [...]
This Op-Ed by Emelyn Lybarger appeared on PagosaDailyPost.com on May 10th, 2019. As the State of Colorado and City of Denver continue to ignore the core causes of a housing crisis that has pushed thousands onto the streets, Denver residents took the historic step of proposing a legally enforceable human “Right to Survive.” The proposed [...]
This article by David Levine was published on DC Media Group on May 6, 2019. The UN’s alarming report on declining biodiversity and accelerating extinction rates is making headlines and generating clicks and shares on social media. Based on “overwhelming evidence” from a “wide range of different fields of knowledge,” the report paints an “ominous picture,” says [...]
The Whanganui River in New Zealand is a legal person. A nearby forest is too. Soon, the government will grant a mountain legal personhood as well. Here's how it happened, and what it may mean. This article by Kennedy Warne appeared in the April, 2019 edition of National Geographic. The photographs were taken by Mathias [...]
Corporate power exists as a house of cards. It’s way less stable than it looks. It was built incrementally, primarily via the US Supreme Court granting one new constitutional “right” after another to business corporations, starting in 1819, exactly 200 years ago. And once We The People understand this history, we can begin to [...]
It's the day after the Lake Erie Bill of Rights vote in Toledo, Ohio. Voters overwhelming declared the Great Lake is worthy of having its own Bill of Rights. It's a major step forward for the Rights of Nature and Community Rights movements in The United States and beyond. To the north, the Washburn County [...]
