Township Battles Industry Lawsuit to Overturn its Ban on Frack Injection Wells. A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from August 11, 2016. Grant Township, Indiana County, PA: Grant Township residents fighting for Community Rights recently prevailed on several key motions in court. Corporate lawyers for Pennsylvania General Energy Company (PGE) failed [...]
This 51-page academic essay, written by Hope M. Babcock, was originally published in Ecology Law Quarterly in 2016. Hope M. Babcock is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center where she teaches natural resources and environmental law and also directs an environmental clinic. "Our brooks will babble in the courts, Seeking damages for torts." [...]
This video interview with New Hampshire Community Rights organizer Michelle Sanborn was posted, March 29, 2016. This 47 minute video can be viewed HERE. On the morning of Thursday the 18th of February, the NH Community Rights Amendment CACR 14 was scheduled for a public legislative hearing with the House Legislative Administration Committee. This was [...]
An excellent introductory Primer on “Rights-Based” Organizing, presented as a 20-minute slideshow. Produced by Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.
This article by Shannon Biggs was published on the Movement Rights website on August 2nd, 2015. They say that Hawaii is Earth’s connecting point to the rest of the Universe. Telescopes—those located on Earth and those in orbit—have allowed us to see deep into the galaxy and to the edges of the universe, sparking our [...]
Thomas Linzey is an environmental attorney and the founder of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, a non-profit law firm that uses bold and aggressive legal methods to remove rights from corporations and give them back to communities and the natural world. This keynote speech took place at the annual Earth At Risk: The Justice [...]
Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, gave a speech at the Colorado Community Rights Network's State Assembly on August 30, 2014. Linzey spoke about the challenges and successes of local communities asserting their rights to local governance. The Colorado Community Rights Network helps communities create their own local laws to define and [...]
A Panel Discussion at the Cascadia Rising bioregional confluence event at Portland State University in 2014. Panelists included Aurolyn Stwyer, Treothe Bullock, Paul Cienfuegos and Lucy Marie. Here's the text about this Panel Discussion from the conference program: This panel seeks to explore the positive and problematic intersections between Indigenous Sovereignty strategies and rights-based organizing [...]
Ben Price made a presentation and answered questions on a conference call with the local Community Rights group in Fairfield, Iowa, on February 25, 2014. This local group has written a draft ordinance that would prohibit any further CAFO's (factory farms) in Jefferson County, Iowa. Ben is the Projects Director of Community Environmental Legal Defense [...]
An introductory 13-minute slideshow produced by Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.
