This event took place on October 27, 2017 at Tulane Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana. This 74 minute video can be viewed HERE. The Rights of Nature Symposium was held on October 27, 2017, at Tulane Law School in New Orleans. The Symposium was co-sponsored by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), CELDF's International Center for the [...]
This event took place on October 27, 2017 at Tulane Law School in Louisiana, New Orleans. This 49 minute video can be viewed HERE. The Rights of Nature Symposium was held on October 27, 2017, at Tulane Law School in New Orleans. The Symposium was co-sponsored by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), CELDF's International Center for the Rights [...]
This event took place on October 27, 2017 at Tulane Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana. This 45 minute video can be viewed HERE. The Rights of Nature Symposium was held on October 27, 2017, at Tulane Law School in New Orleans. The Symposium was co-sponsored by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), CELDF's International [...]
This event took place on October 27, 2017 at Tulane Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana. This 92 minute video can be viewed HERE. The Rights of Nature Symposium was held on October 27, 2017, at Tulane Law School in New Orleans. The Symposium was co-sponsored by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), CELDF's International [...]
This Guest Column by Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch originally appeared in TCPalm on October 26, 2017. The article is viewable below, following a critique of it (in bold italics) by our own Paul Cienfuegos... We in the Community Rights movement would disagree with the author’s claim that the US or Florida Constitutions “protect our essential rights”. The [...]
A federal suit filed against the state of Colorado seeks to establish ‘personhood’ status for the mighty watercourse. Mari Margil, an attorney working on the case, explains what that would mean. This article by Matt Weiser originally appeared on News Deeply October 25, 2017. Should a river have legal rights of its own? Should it be [...]
This dispatch by Will Falk originally appeared on Deep Green News Service October 25, 2017. When I agreed to serve as a “next friend” to the Colorado River in a first-ever federal lawsuit seeking personhood and rights of nature for the river, I agreed to represent the river’s interests in court. On a general level, [...]
Where: Tulane University Law School New Orleans, Louisiana When: Friday, October 27, 2017 Free and open to the public, but registration is required to attend in person, space is limited The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), with its International Center for the Rights of Nature, is partnering with Tulane Law School to host the [...]
This interview happened on October 12th, 2017 with Doug McKenty on The Shift. This 70 minute video can be viewed HERE. In this episode of The Shift, host Doug McKenty speaks with Community Rights guru Paul Cienfuegos about his new organization, Community Rights U.S. Join them as they discuss how the concept of community rights can be used to [...]
This editorial by Patricia Randolph originally appeared in The Cap Times, October 22, 2017. The only thing that environmental laws regulate are environmentalists.” ~ Thomas Linzey, 2014 Earth at Risk conference Thomas Linzey co-founded the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund in the early 1990s to help communities seeking environmental justice as they fought against factory hog [...]