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 [...]
Members voted Thursday to adopt constitution, elections act, membership act and governance act This news article by Jamie Malbeuf appeared in the CBC News on May 24, 2019. The Fort McKay Métis near Fort McMurray has declared self-governance after members voted to adopt a constitution, elections act, membership act and governance act. The move is a [...]
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 [...]
Denies People their Right to Defend Local Law Recognizing Rights of Lake Erie A press release posted by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund on May 8th, 2019. Toledo, OH: Yesterday, Toledoans for Safe Water (TSW) and the Lake Erie Ecosystem were denied their motion to intervene in the lawsuit brought by Drewes Farm Partnership of Wood County [...]
Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered at Grand Central Station in solidarity with Indigenous and non-Indigenous allies protesting against the Dakota Access Pipeline on November 1, 2016.
This press release appeared in The Forum on May 4th, 2019. The Nottingham Water Alliance (NWA) has retained the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) to represent them in defending the Freedom from Chemical Trespass Ordinance. A challenge has been brought by Brent Tweed of G&F Goods, LLC in Rockingham Superior Court. The Ordinance was [...]
This research article by Paul Cienfuegos was published in the Spring of 2000, and reprinted widely in activist journals and online - with substantial research assistance provided by Dean Ritz, Molly Morgan, and Patrick Reinsborough. It is substantially out of date, but still a fascinating look at the early phase of what later became a [...]
