Speeches & Presentations by Community Rights People

RIGHTS OF NATURE SYMPOSIUM – PANEL 2, PART 1: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

This event took place on October 27, 2017  at Tulane Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana. This 58 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 [...]

RIGHTS OF NATURE SYMPOSIUM – KARENNA GORE KEYNOTE OCT 27, 2017

This event took place on October 27, 2017 at Tulane Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana. This 58 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 OF NATURE SYMPOSIUM – PANEL 3: DEFENDING & ENFORCING RIGHTS OF NATURE LAWS

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 [...]

RIGHTS OF NATURE SYMPOSIUM – PANEL 2, PART 3: INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVE

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 [...]

RIGHTS OF NATURE SYMPOSIUM – PANEL 2, PART 2: U.S. PERSPECTIVE

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 [...]

RIGHTS OF NATURE SYMPOSIUM – INTRO & PANEL 1: LIMITATIONS OF CONVENTIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

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 [...]

Documentary: Drilling Mora County

Drilling Mora County was posted August 21st, 2017 on Vimeo.com. This 54 minute documentary can be viewed HERE. The film covers the Mora County fracking ban with interviews with attorneys, activists, and elected officials involved with the ordinance banning hydrocarbon extraction in Mora County, New Mexico. Attorneys like Jeffery Haas, elected officials like John Olivas and activists like Kathleen Dudley [...]

Nancy Ward & Paul Cienfuegos speak & answer audience questions following a public screening of the new documentary, ‘We the People 2.0’.

A new documentary film about the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, 'We the People 2.0', was publicly screened in Portland, Oregon. The event was hosted by David Delk, a leader of the local chapters of both Alliance for Democracy and Move To Amend. Nancy Ward and Paul Cienfuegos were invited to talk and answer audience questions [...]

Katie Groves’ testimony at a statewide regulatory hearing on a proposed frac sand mining operation in Wisconsin

On April 18, 2017, the Wisconsin (so-called) Department of Natural Resources and the Army Corps of Engineers held a shared public hearing in Tomah, Wisconsin to hear (and then to ignore) public testimony on the proposed destruction of a significant wetland to make way for a frac sand mining operation. Katie Groves, who lives in [...]

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