"Why can't we say 'no' when a corporation wants to come in and drill, dump or destroy?" CELDF explains how the law funnels us into an ineffective place. They say cut the cord and start to govern. See this 6th episode of Fast Fact Friday: Fast Fact Friday: the regulatory fallacy
Posted by CELDF Jun 29, 2020 Corporations are suing communities. And those corporations have rights under the Constitution and in law. The communities, largely, do not. CELDF organizer, Chad Nicholson, joins Thom Hartmann to discuss the findings of the June 2020 CELDF Report: Corporations Are Suing Cities Across the USA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_3gNyHxuK8#action=share posted originally by [...]
The Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights' released a video on the recent developments of Rights of Nature in Ecuador. From CDER: "Our June 2020 webinar focused on Ecuador, with an excellent presentation by Attorney Hugo Echeverria, who is based in Quito and who works with CDER. He spoke about the Rights of Nature constitutional [...]
CELDF presents a webinar on exploring the rights of nature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1Ocd4Y_WRg
CELDF posted a webinar on expanding rights-based organizing during a crisis: http://youtu.be/xbdhcz0mujU
Stacey Schmader, Co-founder of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), offers us two provocative ideas in this three minute video: Walk away from Earth Day and the regulatory agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). She says they do more harm than good. We at Community Rights US invite you to give this video [...]
This 25 minute video was published by Citizen Action for Exeter's Environment on February 21st, 2020. This video can be used as a tool to inspire, inform, educate and empower yourself and others on what it will take to start a campaign to pass a Right to a Healthy Climate ordinance in your community. The [...]
Community Rights US is proud to offer our NEW online learning opportunity! Now you can learn the nuts and bolts of the Community Rights history and strategy, and connect with others from the comfort of your own home during this free trial course. In exchange, all we ask is that you provide us with weekly feedback on your experience with the course [...]
This eighteen minute talk by Kat Houghton was post on the TEDx Talk's website on November 7th, 2019. Peak into the dominant cultural consciousness that holds humans separate and above the rest of the natural world. Explore worldviews from diverse cultures and western science that help us question our beliefs about our place in [...]
In this video interview (3 min. 30 sec.) Merrily Mazza talks about her experience as a locally elected official that is also active in the Community Rights movement. If we are ever going to have a new system of environmental protection in the United States it will be locally elected officials like Merrily that step [...]
