This article by Will Falk and Sean Butler was published at Deep Green Resistance News Service on June 18th, 2019. It should be clear to anyone following the events surrounding attempts by the citizens of Toledo, OH, with help from nonprofit law firm the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), to protect Lake Erie with [...]
An investigation by USA Today, The Arizona Republic and the Center for Public Integrity. Authors: Rob O'Dell and Nick Penzenstadler. Published on April 4, 2019. It’s terrific that mainstream corporate print media is finally catching on to this crisis of democracy story - good for them. But it’s a bit disingenuous for them to claim [...]
The group is fighting for resident-oversight of industrial water projects. A press release issued by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund on June 6th, 2019. TACOMA, WA: On June 4, 2019, a grassroots community group in Tacoma, Washington, filed a First Amendment petition with the U.S. Supreme Court to challenge Washington state courts’ continued denial [...]
This article by Lindsey Wittenberg Samuelson was published on the Nightingale for Global Health's website on June 5th, 2019. When my daughter was less than 3 months old, I got a call early one morning from a panicked family friend. “Have you drank from your tap today?” I quickly thought about it. I had just [...]
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 [...]
Attorney General files complaint against the Lake Erie Bill of Rights protecting polluters This press release was published by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund on May 28th, 2019. COLUMBUS, OH: On Friday, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost filed a legal complaint to have the Lake Erie Bill of Rights (LEBOR) overturned. The AG’s filing comes less than [...]
This article by the Missouri Rural Crisis Center appeared in the Daily Star Journal on May 28th, 2019. The 2019 legislative session came to an end and clearly demonstrated how willfully out of touch Gov. Mike Parson and our state legislature are with Missourians from every corner of the state and all walks of life. [...]
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 Valerie Vande Panne of the Independent Media Institute appeared in EcoWatch on May 16, 2019. In February, the voters of Toledo, Ohio, passed a ballot initiative that gives Lake Erie and those who rely on the lake's ecosystem a bill of rights. The idea is to protect and preserve the ecosystem so that [...]
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 [...]
