Press Release from Snohomish County Community Rights Please share: On June 9 at 6 pm, Snohomish County Community Rights (SCCR) will host an online Rights of Nature (RON) workshop by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) “Emancipating Nature: Securing Legal Rights for Ecosystems” The workshop will cover the following: What is rights of nature? [...]
Press Release by Community Environmental Defense Fund (CELDF) Spokane, Washington: 20 Years of Community Building CELDF’s Kai Huschke was centrally involved in the first-in-the-nation Community Bill of Rights and Worker Bill of Rights, which both originated in Spokane. His chapter for the new Latah book One-Block Revolution: 20 Years of Community Building (218-pages) details the [...]
CELDF Press Release: NCRN hosts a conversation with CELDF lawyers. Wednesday, September 29th @ 8pm ET and 5pm PT On Wednesday, September 29th at 8pm ET and 5pm PT, the National Community Rights Network will sit down with CELDF attorneys who do the work of elevating people and nature in the eyes of the law. [...]
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund issued this statement on July 15, 2021. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Kai Huschke Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund Community Organizer CELDF.org kai@celdf.org 509-607-5034 Oregon Community Rights Activists Undeterred by Court’s Validation of Timber’s Toxic Legacy NEWPORT, OR: The Court of Appeals of the State of Oregon issued a one-page decision [...]
Reading, Pennsylvania residents launch ballot initiative campaign, speak out about environmental racism. This CELDF Press Release is dated July 8, 2021. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE READING, PA: Petitioners in Reading, Pennsylvania have officially kicked off a campaign to amend the Reading City Charter to outlaw “toxic trespass,” the poisoning of people and the environment within the [...]
Ohio Residents Call On State Attorney General and 9 County Prosecuting Attorneys to Launch Criminal Investigations Into Radioactive Pollution in Waterways CELDF press release June 21, 2021 Under a 2002 law, introducing radioactive elements into Ohio drinking water is a felony offense. Companies are violating this by spreading oil and gas waste ‘brine’ — proven [...]
CELDF is covered in a chapter in this new book! The timely book from The New Press highlights powerful grassroots campaigns and strategies from across the continent. It includes a chapter on CELDF’s efforts to ‘decolonize the law.’ Collecting interviews, journalistic reports, first-person essays, and artwork, editor Audrea Lim touches on a wide range of [...]
CELDF Press Release. On May 28, 2021, CELDF’s Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin joined Rebecca Tsosie (constitutional and Indigenous law scholar of Yaqui descent and regents professor of law at the University of Arizona) and Carol Van Strum (Lincoln County Community Rights) on the nationally syndicated Climate One podcast. They discussed the Rights of Nature movement and the [...]
Demand Immediate Protection for Lake Erie, Including Ban on Factory Farms CELDF Press Release Tish O’Dell Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund Ohio Community Organizer CELDF.org tish@celdf.org 440-552-6774 Lawsuit advances avenue for participatory Rights of Nature enforcement. TOLEDO, OH: Last week, Toledo residents who are plaintiffs in a lawsuit to enforce the Lake Erie Bill of [...]
The Clallam County Democrats invite the community to “Whose Constitution Is It? The Politics of Constitutional Change,” a program held on Zoom from 4-5 p.m. PDT on Monday, June 7. Join CELDF attorney Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin for a presentation and discussion on the history and current significance of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the [...]
