The folks in Columbus, Ohio with their anti-preemption city charter amendment, are attacking the structure of American law which protects the American war machine, the destruction of nature for the production of profit, and enslaves people through low wages. The post Columbus Free Press: There is Much We Can Do – How a Columbus Anti-Preemption City Charter Amendment Would Interfere with the American War Machine appeared first on CELDF - Community Rights Pioneers - Protecting Nature and Comm...| CELDF – Community Rights Pioneers – Protecting Nature and Communities
The folks in Columbus, Ohio with their anti-preemption city charter amendment, are attacking the structure of American law which protects the American war machine, the destruction of nature for the production of profit, and enslaves people through low wages.| CELDF - Community Rights Pioneers - Protecting Nature and Communities
Capitalism’s Missing Persons – Disappearing the Homeless, Immigrants, Native and Rural Communities, To Complete the Enclosure of the Commons| CELDF - Community Rights Pioneers - Protecting Nature and Communities
Disappearing the Homeless, Immigrants, Native and Rural Communities, To Complete the Enclosure of the Commons The post Capitalism’s Missing Persons – Disappearing the Homeless, Immigrants, Native and Rural Communities, To Complete the Enclosure of the Commons appeared first on CELDF - Community Rights Pioneers - Protecting Nature and Communities.| CELDF – Community Rights Pioneers – Protecting Nature and Communities
CELDF’s 2025 Mid-Year Impact Report Get Caught Up. Spread the Word. Give Generously. Celebrate CELDF’s 30th Anniversary!| CELDF - Community Rights Pioneers - Protecting Nature and Communities
CELDF’s 2025 Mid-Year Impact Report Get Caught Up. Spread the Word. Give Generously. Celebrate CELDF’s 30th Anniversary! The post CELDF’s 2025 Mid-year Impact Report appeared first on CELDF - Community Rights Pioneers - Protecting Nature and Communities.| CELDF – Community Rights Pioneers – Protecting Nature and Communities
July 22, 2025 by Kai Huschke Protests over the last 6 years The sheer number of protests in the first six months of 2025 resulting from unpopular actions taken by the federal government (and state and local governments) is getting difficult to track: Legislation to cancel the non-profit status of organizations opposing U.S. foreign policyRead more »| CELDF - Community Rights Pioneers - Protecting Nature and Communities
On July 21st, a special live streaming event will bring together grassroots activists from these places to share their experiences of repression and resistance. The event, called “Solidarity Against Tyranny,” begins at 6pm Pacific Daylight Time (aka 9pm Eastern Daylight Time, or 9am on July 22nd, Philippine Time) and is free to attend. The post Press Release: “Solidarity Against Tyranny” Brings Together Activists from the Philippines and Appalachia appeared first on CELDF - Community...| CELDF – Community Rights Pioneers – Protecting Nature and Communities
On July 21st at 6pm PDT / 9pm EDT, we invite you to join us for a special event, “Solidarity Against Tyranny,” to help answer this question. Featuring activists, organizers, and revolutionaries from the Philippines and the Appalachian South.| CELDF - Community Rights Pioneers - Protecting Nature and Communities
COLUMBUS, OH – What can a community do when the democratic process itself has been outlawed? That’s the question facing residents of Ohio.| CELDF - Community Rights Pioneers - Protecting Nature and Communities
CELDF aims to build sustainable communities by assisting people to assert their right to local self-government and to protect the rights of nature.| CELDF
Author, Ben Price, was interviewed on the Project Censored Show by Eleanor Goldfield about his new book, Wouldn’t You Say, A Collection of Essays on Environment and Community. In the book and in their conversation, Ben explains that what we’re seeing today is not a perversion of the promise of America, it’s actually a proof of... Read more »| CELDF
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is proud to announce the publication of “Can You Handle the Truth? Essays of Hard Truths Aimed at Right-relationships with the Earth and Each Other.” The post “Can You Handle the Truth?” New Book Features Voices of Dissent and Radical Solutions appeared first on CELDF.| CELDF
Announcing Truth and Reckoning on Substack, a project of the CELDF. We will be featuring long-form articles, audio, and video podcasts on resistance + resilience in collaboration with people across the United States, working to protect natural ecosystems and human communities from the impacts of corporate greed. The post CELDF now on Substack: Truth, Reckoning, and Right Relationship appeared first on CELDF.| CELDF
Can You Handle the Truth? - Essays of Hard Truths Aimed at Right Relationship with Earth and Each Other The post CELDF’s Newest Publication – Can You Handle the Truth? Introductory Pre-order Prices for the E-book and Paperback appeared first on CELDF.| CELDF
There is a critical need for a movement to recognize nature as a legal entity with rights. Just as human rights are enshrined in law to protect individuals, the rights of the natural world also need to be legally acknowledged.| CELDF - Community Rights Pioneers - Protecting Nature and Communities
Dozens of activists for the rights of nature who traveled to the United Nations to participate in a high-level meeting were unexpectedly barred from speaking on April 22nd, Earth Day, due to a supposed “security breach.”| CELDF - Community Rights Pioneers - Protecting Nature and Communities
Regional environmental leader Tish O’Dell spoke to Cleveland State students about the legal system’s failure to protect nature and the urgent need for cultural change.| CELDF - Community Rights Pioneers - Protecting Nature and Communities
Grant Township’s 2014 Rights of Nature law became the first such piece of legislation to be enforced by a state, with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) citing it in rescinding a fracking waste injection permit.| CELDF - Community Rights Pioneers - Protecting Nature and Communities
Today, April 22nd (Earth Day), advocates for the New York bill have been invited to the United Nations to address a high-level meeting on harmony with nature.| CELDF - Community Rights Pioneers - Protecting Nature and Communities
Chemical trespass occurs when people and the natural environment are harmed by chemical agents that are forced into communities - and CELDF is helping the first communities in the country to stop it.| CELDF
“Great Lakes and State Waters Bill of Rights” introduced in New York State Assembly BUFFALO – What if bodies of water were guaranteed the kinds of legal rights that would criminalize their destruction? What if communities had the authority to enact laws that prevented pollution, extraction, and waste-dumping? This would be the case under a new... Read more »| CELDF
The essays in Wouldn’t You Say? ask challenging questions about modern society, our relationship to each other, and to the natural world. Order Your Copy Today!| CELDF - Community Rights Pioneers - Protecting Nature and Communities
On August 2, 2014, Toledo residents awoke to government alerts to not drink, bathe, use or touch the water coming out of their taps. The water could make adult humans very sick and even worse for babies, children, and anyone with compromised immune systems. Fish, animals, and plants weren’t even considered. What was clear though,... Read more »| CELDF
