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We help communities and groups like yours.
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We are not a typical environmental organization. We assist communities to develop first-in-the-nation, groundbreaking laws to protect rights – including worker, environmental, and democratic rights, and rights of nature. CELDF provides free and low cost legal services, grassroots organizing, and education, to communities, states, and countries facing injustice. We help them to assert their rights to fight the harms they face. Learn more about how we work, or call us now at: 717-498-0054.
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News from the Grassroots
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The Progressive: Across the U.S., Courts are Keeping Voter Initiatives Off Local Ballots
This is what it looks like when elected officials and courts block direct democracy - citizen initiative rights are stripped and communities' health, safety, and welfare are disregarded.
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Tell Me a Story: Michelle Holman, activist
Michelle Holman is a Community Rights activist in Lane County, OR, where she is fighting aerial-sprayed pesticides with residents and allies. Here, a short video story on her activism and why Community Rights.
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Blog: The Gun Establishment's Weapon of Choice
Courageous local officials in ten Florida cities are fighting punishments enacted by the state legislature under an unjust gun law. But it's the state's claimed power of preemption that must be challenged.
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Oxford Human Rights Hub: RightsUp #RightNow - When Human Rights Are Not Enough: Defending the Rights of Nature
Human rights to a healthy environment are gaining recognition - and today, the rights of nature are growing as well. Here, CELDF's Mari Margil speaks to how recognizing ecosystem rights is central to tackling environmental degradation.
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News
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Press Releases & Blogs
News from the CELDF headquarters, press releases, and blogs.
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Community Wires
Keep up to date with the communities and groups that CELDF partners with around the world.
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In The News
News coverage and posts related to CELDF and the issues we work on, from across the internet.
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View All Upcoming Events
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By What Right? Legal Rights of the Salish Sea
May 5, 2018Join us for this workshop on Community Rights and Rights of Nature as communities surrounding the Salish Sea organize to recognize the ecosystem's rights.
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Thomas Linzey – Earth at Risk Conference 2014 on Link TV
May 6, 2018 — May 20, 2018CELDF's Thomas Linzey spoke at the Earth at Risk conference in 2014. Link TV streams his keynote annually. Check out the schedule for May 2018!
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The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) Tribunal on Human Rights, Fracking and Climate Change
May 14, 2018 — May 18, 2018CELDF is participating in the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal Session on Human Rights, Fracking and Climate Change. Judges will be asked to consider Rights of Nature, and apply the standards of international human rights law. Join us!
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Sign up for the official CELDF newsletter.
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Always know the latest news from the front of the movement.
Aside from donating time or money, joining this list is the best way to support the ongoing efforts of CELDF.
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Featured Articles
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Press Release: Colombia Supreme Court Rules that Amazon Region is “Subject of Rights”
April 5, 2018In the growing recognition of ecosystem rights around the world, today the Colombia Supreme Court of Justice ruled that the Amazon region in Colombia possesses rights.
Blog: The NRA, Gun Violence, and Ceiling Preemption
March 14, 2018Communities can't adopt the gun laws they believe would best protect their health, safety, and welfare. Here's why - and what communities can do about it.
Blog: Black History Month, White Supremacy, and Community Rights
February 25, 2018CELDF's Tish O'Dell shares discoveries of her own white privilege when fracking came into her community - and how Dr. Martin Luther King and Black Lives Matter inform her work with communities today
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A Problem: Corporations have been granted rights allowing them to wreak havoc in communities for over 200 years.
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We can stop this. Here's how...
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Fight for a more democratic tomorrow, today.
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Our democracy has been usurped by corporations. Please give today to help CELDF return the democratic process to the people. CELDF uses every dollar of your donation to fight for rights.
Immerse yourself in the fundamentals of our current legal system.
Learn how to better understand the issues of our time.
Discover the keys to affect lasting change.
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Water Protectors in Nottingham, NH
Show Your SupportNottingham, NH, residents have stood their ground to protect the Lamprey River Watershed, a water ecosystem supporting innumerable human and natural communities. They are up against water thieves – corporations taking their water against the will of the people.
For over a decade they have enforced their Community Bill of Rights banning corporate water withdrawals. CELDF stands with them.
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Lincoln Co, OR, Residents & the Siletz River Challenge the Timber Industry
Show Your SupportFor decades, Lincoln County, OR, residents and surrounding ecosystems have been subjected to toxic aerially spraying of pesticides by the timber industry.
Today, they’ve had enough. Working with CELDF, they are asserting the rights of the Siletz River, their own rights to clean air and pure water, and – together – they are challenging the timber industry.
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Grant Township, PA: A Stand to Protect Their Water & Their Community
Show Your SupportFor more than 3 years, Grant Township, PA, residents have been fighting PGE’s proposed frack wastewater injection well. Now their own Department of Environmental Protection has turned on them as well. Grant residents are unwavering in their commitment to protect their community.
CELDF is standing with them.