A videoed talk by Carol Van Strum, discussing the need for voters to mobilize to support the May 2017 ballot initiative in Lincoln County, Oregon, that would ban aerial spraying of pesticides on forest lands county-wide. Presented by Lincoln County Community Rights. To watch the video, click HERE.
The first ever full length documentary on the work of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund was released in October 2016 by Tree Media. Quoting from the production company's materials: "We the People 2.0 is a visual essay about the loss of democracy in the United States. The film utilizes both original footage as well [...]
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.
Cliff Helming led this public forum in Carbondale, Colorado, on May 27, 2015. Cliff is a board member of the Colorado Community Rights Network and the President of the National Community Rights Network. In response to state preemption of community rights to local self-government; preemption of the Lafayette, Colorado's Community Bill of Rights for Banning [...]
This film was created in collaboration with residents of Gold Beach, Oregon and examines the implications of statewide use of aerial herbicide spray on private timberland as illuminated through the Gold Beach experience. On October 16, 2013, a helicopter spraying herbicides over clearcuts in Cedar Valley took multiple trips over a stretch of homes. Herbicides [...]
An original speech by Paul Cienfuegos - presented in Minneapolis on February 23, 2015. Paul used Naomi Klein's extraordinary book, This Changes Everything, as the jumping off point for his groundbreaking speech, proposing the Community Rights strategy as the critical missing piece in Naomi's book. In fact, Naomi's vision begs for a Community Rights solution, [...]
On February 8, 2015, in the middle of a classic Midwest blizzard, 49 local Community Rights activists from about a dozen counties across rural Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, met for a full day in Whitehall, Wisconsin to educate themselves, to network with like minded people, and to build community. This was the informal network's second [...]
David Delk interviews Paul Cienfuegos about the Community Rights movement, on the weekly Portland, Oregon cable TV show, 'Conversations with Dr. Don', on January 8, 2015. Paul Cienfuegos lives in Portland, was a co-founder of the local group Community Rights PDX, is a leader of the Community Rights movement, and a co-founder of Community Rights US [...]
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 [...]