This blog post by Susan Shaw, Solicitor & Founder Living Law, was posted on the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund's website on September 6th, 2019. Editor’s Note: CELDF is pleased to present a guest blog from our partner Susan Shaw, a solicitor and founder of Living Law, in Scotland. We have been engaging with groups [...]
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 [...]
Conventional environmental laws have allowed Adani’s Carmichael coal mine go forward in Australia. It’s time we changed them. This article by Michele Maloney and Mari Margil was published in the Earth Island Journal on August 5th, 2019. Recently, groundwater extraction permits were granted for the controversial Carmichael coal mine project in Queensland, Australia. With that approval, Adani, [...]
Jane Anne Morris would have been 66 years old today. This memoriam to her life and groundbreaking work in what we now call the Community Rights movement was posted in July 2019 on the Program on Corporations Law and Democracy's (POCLAD) website. We at Community Rights US highly recommend reading anything by JAM. Her writing [...]
This article by Amy Oberlin appeared on the kpcNews website on July 14th, 2019. BRYAN, Ohio — A Williams County, Ohio citizens’ charter initiative to establish home role is running up against road blocks and deadlines. Monday, the Williams County Board of Elections deemed the charter — signed by 2,534 Ohio residents — unconstitutional. Tish [...]
This editorial by Stacy Long appeared in The Hawk Eye on June 20, 2019. GRANT TOWNSHIP — This missive addresses Mike Butler, author of a May 28 letter to the editor of The Indiana Gazette. Mr. Butler, mid-Atlantic executive director of Consumer Energy Alliance, made a wildly condescending attempt to sound frightening to Indiana County residents and to [...]
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 [...]
This article by Tim Jamison (below) appeared in The Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier (in Iowa) on May 22nd, 2019. Iowa has already reached the point where the water contamination crisis caused by massive factory farms has become so severe that dozens of county governments are finally coordinating with each other and demanding a statewide moratorium [...]
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 Chauncey Ross appeared in The Indiana Gazette on April 26th, 2019. EAST RUN — A federal court ruling earlier this month has left dark clouds over northeastern Indiana County. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Baxter ordered Grant Township to pay $103,000 of the legal expenses connected with a lawsuit that a major [...]
