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Truth and Reckoning"Greedy Hands in the Wetland" — Update on Virginia Beach Forest DestructionWelcome to Truth and Reckoning, a podcast and newsletter from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). We are organizers, lawyers, and revolutionaries who educate and agitate to confront systemic injustice and restore humanity’s relationship with the Earth.For more than 30 years, we’ve helped communities resist corporate power, reject regulatory false promises, and assert their right to self-governance grounded in ecological balance. Subscribe to learn about rights of nature, environmental movement strategy, and stay updated on our work.In this episode of the Truth and Reckoning podcast, we speak with four people resisting the...
2026-01-271h 37
Sacred Legions: A Podcast for Secular SaintsBen Price: A Secular Saint of Global StewardshipIn this conversation, host, Max Goller, and Secular Saint, Ben Price, discuss the evolution of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) and its mission to empower communities to assert their rights against environmental degradation. They explore the shift from traditional regulatory approaches to a focus on community rights and self-governance, emphasizing the importance of local decision-making in environmental matters. The discussion also touches on the historical context of democracy in the U.S., the role of education in fostering community empowerment, and the need to challenge systemic injustices that prioritize corporate interests over public health and safety.
2026-01-1356 min
Truth and Reckoning"It Rips Your Heart Out" — Defending Southern Arizona's Borderlands with Kate Scott and Tony HeathWelcome to Truth and Reckoning, a podcast and newsletter from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). We are organizers, lawyers, and revolutionaries who educate and agitate to confront systemic injustice and restore humanity’s relationship with the Earth.For more than 30 years, we’ve helped communities resist corporate power, reject regulatory false promises, and assert their right to self-governance grounded in ecological balance. Subscribe to learn about rights of nature, environmental movement strategy, and stay updated on our work.In this episode of the Truth and Reckoning podcast, we speak with Kate Scott and Tony...
2026-01-081h 11
Truth and ReckoningDefending 2,000-Year-Old Forests w/ Elder Bill Jones and Will O'ConnellIf you’re new here, this is Truth and Reckoning, a podcast and newsletter from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). We are organizers, lawyers, and revolutionaries who educate and agitate to confront systemic injustice and restore humanity’s relationship with the Earth.For more than 30 years, we’ve helped communities resist corporate power, reject regulatory false promises, and assert their right to self-governance grounded in ecological balance. Subscribe to learn about rights of nature, environmental movement strategy, and stay updated on our work.In this episode, we speak with Elder Bill Jones of the Pa...
2025-12-151h 42
Truth and ReckoningFunding the Transformation with Kai HuschkeWelcome to Truth and Reckoning, a podcast and newsletter from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). We are organizers, lawyers, and revolutionaries who educate and agitate to confront systemic injustice and restore humanity’s relationship with the Earth.For more than 30 years, we’ve helped communities resist corporate power, reject regulatory false promises, and assert their right to self-governance grounded in ecological balance. Subscribe to learn about rights of nature and movement strategy, and to stay updated on our work.In this episode, we speak with Kai HuschkeKai is the Executive and...
2025-12-0522 min
Truth and ReckoningIndigenous Environmental Justice with Dina Gilio-WhitakerWelcome to Truth and Reckoning, a podcast and newsletter from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). We are organizers, lawyers, and revolutionaries who educate and agitate to confront systemic injustice and restore humanity’s relationship with the Earth.For more than 30 years, we’ve helped communities resist corporate power, reject regulatory false promises, and assert their right to self-governance grounded in ecological balance. Subscribe to learn about rights of nature and movement strategy, and to stay updated on our work.In this episode, we speak with Dina Gilio-WhitakerDina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Trib...
2025-12-0355 min
Clallam County WatchdogWho Gets Heard in Clallam County — and Who Gets IgnoredThe louder you shout, the more Clallam County Commissioners listen — especially if your resume includes “climate activist,” “Earth Law Center,” or “rights of nature.” Meanwhile, the people who actually live, work, and pay taxes here are lucky to get three minutes at a microphone. From timber policy to water rights, our local leaders seem more interested in entertaining activist lectures than hearing from the public they serve.The New Inner CircleLast month, the County Commissioners gave climate activist and self-proclaimed police abolitionist Brel Froebe a two-hour platform to argue for removing prime DNR timberland...
2025-11-1246 min
Truth and ReckoningClimate Collapse, Imperialism, and Technological Solutionism in Academia with Aashis JoshiWelcome to Truth and Reckoning, a podcast and newsletter from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). We are organizers, lawyers, and revolutionaries who educate and agitate to confront systemic injustice and restore humanity’s relationship with the Earth.For more than 30 years, we’ve helped communities resist corporate power, reject regulatory false promises, and assert their right to self-governance grounded in ecological balance. Subscribe to learn about rights of nature, environmental movement strategy, and stay updated on our work.In this episode, we speak with Aashis JoshiAashis lives in Kathmandu, Nepal, and...
2025-11-071h 35
Truth and ReckoningArt and Ecology with Carine GibertWelcome to Truth and Reckoning, a newsletter from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). We are organizers, lawyers, and revolutionaries who educate and agitate to confront systemic injustice and restore humanity’s relationship with the Earth.For more than 30 years, we’ve helped communities resist corporate power, reject regulatory false promises, and assert their right to self-governance grounded in ecological balance. Subscribe to this newsletter to learn about rights of nature, environmental movement strategy, and stay updated on our work.Support CELDF TodayA generous CELDF supporter has challenged us to raise $20,000 by N...
2025-11-041h 00
Truth and Reckoning“It’s a Rigged System” — Community Rights and Environmental Protection w/ Sherry Fleming and Bill LyonsWelcome to Truth and Reckoning, a podcast from CELDF — the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. CELDF partners with people and communities to establish local self-governance, build alternative systems, and resist destruction of our planet in order to live harmoniously within the boundaries of ecology.If you would like to follow, you can subscribe for free. Or, if you’d like to support to these efforts, you can either donate to CELDF or sign up for a paid subscription. Thank you!In this episode, we speak with two organizers from Ohio, Bill Lyons and Sherry Fleming
2025-09-291h 11
Truth and ReckoningPortraits of Heroes with Robert ShetterlyWelcome to Truth and Reckoning, a podcast from CELDF — the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. CELDF partners with people and communities to establish local self-governance necessary for living harmoniously within the boundaries of ecology.If you would like to follow, you can subscribe for free. Or, if you’d like to pledge monetary support to these efforts, please either donate to CELDF or sign up for a paid subscription. Thank you.In this episode, we speak with Robert Shetterly.Today’s show is an interview between CELDF’s executive director, Kai Huschke, and Robert S...
2025-09-151h 02
The Sperrins Podcast#No.12 Dancing with the Earth: Mary McGuiggan on Rights of Nature and ConnectionIn this episode, I sit down with Mary McGuiggan — A Derry woman, retired primary school teacher, renowned Irish dancer and dance teacher, activist, mother, grandmother, and Gaelic speaker are just some of her many talents .
Mary has been at the heart of building the Rights of Nature campaign in Northern Ireland and is one of the founders of The Gathering, which brings activists together from across Ireland to share struggles, strengthen connections, and support one another.
We talk about what inspired her to this work, how The Gathering has become a space for solidarity and cre...
2025-09-1343 min
Truth and ReckoningUnplugged: Shannon Rowan on Technology's Hidden CostsWelcome to Truth and Reckoning, a podcast from CELDF — the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. CELDF partners with people and communities to establish local self-governance necessary for living harmoniously within the boundaries of ecology.If you would like to follow, you can subscribe for free. Or, if you’d like to pledge monetary support to these efforts, please either donate to CELDF or sign up for a paid subscription. Thank you.In this episode, we speak with Shannon Rowan, who critiques the role of modern technology in society and how it impacts us and the worl...
2025-09-062h 03
Truth and ReckoningRights of Nature for Oregon's Watersheds?Welcome to Truth and Reckoning, a podcast from CELDF — the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. If you would like to follow, you can subscribe for free. Or, if you’d like to pledge monetary support to these efforts, please either donate to CELDF or sign up for a paid subscription. Thank you.In this episode, we learn about an effort to bring rights of nature to the watersheds of Lane County in Western Oregon.Community organizers in Lane County have been working towards rights of nature and community self-determination for over a decade. In t...
2025-08-1955 min
Truth and ReckoningChristian Church, Meets the Church of Mother NatureWelcome to Truth and Reckoning, a podcast from CELDF — the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. If you would like to follow, you can subscribe for free. Or, if you’d like to pledge monetary support to these efforts, please either donate to CELDF or sign up for a paid subscription. Thank you.Religious communities are becoming champions for the Great Lakes and other waters of New York State, bringing a crucial moral and spiritual lens to environmental activismBack in March, we shared the news that New York State Assembly Member Patrick Burke had reintroduced a ri...
2025-08-111h 10
Truth and ReckoningFrontline Resistance Insights from the Philippines and the Appalachian SouthWelcome to Truth and Reckoning, a podcast from CELDF — the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.On this episode, we share the recording from our recent eventThis special event, “Solidarity Against Tyranny: Frontline Resistance Insights from the Philippines and the Appalachian South,” took place on July 21st. It featured activists from the Philippines and the Appalachian South speaking about how to survive, persist, and resist in the face of rising government repression and vigilante violence. How can our movements survive the rise of authoritarian regimes? How shall we respond when our people are jailed...
2025-07-301h 46
The Green FlameState Repression, Vigilante Violence, and People's Resistance in the Philippines and AppalachiaThis episode is a cross-post from CELDF's Truth and Reckoning podcast. On this episode we speak with Denzel Caldwell and Jassim Guila The interview with Denzel Caldwell was conducted by Kai Huschke, CELDF’s Executive Director. Caldwell is part of the Black Nashville Assembly and is Program Manager for Economics and Governance at the Highlander Research & Education Center in Tennessee. The second interview is conducted by Max Wilbert, and is with Jassim Guila. Guila lives in the Philippines and is part of various grassroots networks of resistance, environmental protection, and mutual aid. He is also the...
2025-07-1944 min
Truth and ReckoningState Repression, Vigilante Violence, and People's ResistanceWelcome to Truth and Reckoning, a podcast from CELDF — the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.On this episode we speak with Denzel Caldwell and Jassim GuilaThe interview with Denzel Caldwell was conducted by Kai Huschke, CELDF’s Executive Director. Caldwell is part of the Black Nashville Assembly and is Program Manager for Economics and Governance at the Highlander Research & Education Center in Tennessee.The second interview is conducted by Max Wilbert, and is with Jassim Guila. Guila lives in the Philippines and is part of various grassroots networks of resistance, environmental protection, and...
2025-07-1640 minThe Green Flame"First They Came for the Pro-Palestine Activists" - Attorney Terry Lodge on the Suppression of Dissent in Wartime Attorney Terry Lodge on the increasing attacks against the First Amendment Right to free speech This is a repost of a new podcast I'm hosting with the Community Environmental Legal Defense fund. If you'd like to subscribe, you can find the show on Substack here (https://celdf.substack.com/t/truth-and-reckoning), or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc. I'll be republishing episodes of this show on The Green Flame podcast. “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not...
2025-07-051h 09
Planet: CriticalResilience is Resistance | Max WilbertHow do we survive?Max Wilbert is a long-time activist who spent the past few years defending Thacker Pass, and recently joined CELDF to as part of their new strategy to build out community resilience. I first interviewed Max on why techno-optimism won’t save the day. As with many compatriots around the world, the answer he’s landed on as to what will is local action.In this winding and weaving conversation we discuss the new bill on the floor of the New York State Senate which would give rights of nature to all wate...
2025-07-031h 33
Truth and Reckoning"First They Came for the Pro-Palestine Activists"“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”—Martin NiemöllerNiemöller was a Lutheran Pastor who at first supported the Nazi regime, but then came to oppose the party after Hitler’s rise to...
2025-06-041h 06
Truth and ReckoningA Voice for the TreesWelcome to Truth and Reckoning, a new podcast from CELDF — the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.In this show, we learn from frontline organizers and communities fighting against environmental destruction. We explore different perspectives and innovative strategies for movement building, the potency and potential of rights of nature, and effective action in defense of our communities. And, we share inspiring stories of people working towards right relationship with the land and each other. The show is hosted by CELDF Community Resistance and Resilience Program Co-Director Max Wilbert.On this episode, we speak with “Fable,” a brave...
2025-05-2127 minThe Green Flame"Patch by Patch, the Habitat is Being Erased" - Diamondback Terrapins with Dr. John AguiarThis is a repost of a new podcast I'm hosting with the Community Environmental Legal Defense fund. If you'd like to subscribe, you can find the show on Substack here (https://celdf.substack.com/p/patch-by-patch-the-habitat-is-being), or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc. I'll be republishing episodes of this show on The Green Flame podcast. On this episode, we explore the greenwashed destruction of the last remaining Diamondback Terrapin nesting habitat in Virginia Beach, VA We speak with Dr. John Aquiar, a lifelong resident of the Virginia Beach area, who reached out to CELDF for help in February 2025...
2025-05-111h 03The Green FlameThe Rights of Water in New York StateThis is a repost of a new podcast I'm hosting with the Community Environmental Legal Defense fund. If you'd like to subscribe, you can find the show on Substack here (https://celdf.substack.com/p/truth-and-reckoning-episode-1-the), or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc. I'll also be republishing episodes of this show on The Green Flame podcast. ------------ On this show: Rights of Nature for the waters of New York State We speak to CELDF Education Director Ben Price, one of the organizers behind the 2006 Tamaqua, Pennsylvania passage of the first rights of nature law anywhere...
2025-05-101h 10
Truth and Reckoning"Patch by Patch, the Habitat is Being Erased" - Diamondback Terrapins with Dr. John AguiarWelcome to Truth and Reckoning, a new podcast from CELDF — the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. In this show, we learn from frontline organizers and communities fighting against environmental destruction. We explore different perspectives and innovative strategies for movement building, the potency and potential of rights of nature, and effective action in defense of our communities. And, we share inspiring stories of people working towards right relationship with the land and each other. The show is hosted by CELDF Community Resistance and Resilience Program Co-Director Max Wilbert.On this episode, we explore the greenwashed destruction of...
2025-05-0259 min
Truth and ReckoningTruth and Reckoning Episode 1: The Rights of Water in New York StateWelcome to Truth and Reckoning, a new podcast from CELDF — the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. In this show, we’ll learn from frontline organizers and communities fighting against environmental destruction. We’ll explore different perspectives and innovative strategies for movement building, the potency and potential of rights of nature, and effective action in defense of our communities. And we’ll share inspiring stories of people working towards right relationship with the land and each other. The show is hosted by CELDF organizer Max Wilbert.On this show: Rights of Nature for the waters of New York State
2025-04-281h 07
The SignalCELDF’s Ben Price, Trailblazer in the Rights of Nature Movement, on His New Book, “Wouldn’t You Say: A Collection of Essays About Environment and Community”On this special Earth Day episode of The Signal, we welcome Ben Price, education director at the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, where he has worked at since 2004. Ben is a trailblazer in the Rights of Nature movement and has a new book out: Wouldn’t You Say? A Collection of Essays About Environment and Community.
In this conversation, we discuss his book and how the rights of nature movement challenges us to rethink our relationship with the natural world while calling us to expand our political imaginations to not just dream of what a sustainable, just wor...
2025-04-2241 min
Full Circle KPFAFull Circle 03-28-2025 Water Protection Speaker Series and The Rights Of Water New YorkThis week on Full Circle we will check in on the health of California water supplies. On tonight’s show we’ll hear voices and an interview from the SAve California Salmon, Water Protection Speaker Series, Where Does Your Water Come From? Then in the second half of the show we'll head to New York, where folks from, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) are presenting a bill that would grant legal rights to all water bodies in the state.
2025-04-0258 min
GrassRoot OhioExist-Flourish-Evolve w/ artist/activist Andrea Bowers & moCa curator, Lauren LevingCarolyn Harding with visual artist/activist Andrea Bowers and Lauren Leving, curator at Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, or commonly called moCa.
On December 21, 2023, Andrea, you posted on Face Book, “A line from the Lake Erie bill of rights will be shining over Lake Erie on the science center across from the rock and roll hall of fame!” with photos and video clip from the installation of your work of Art, which is now hundreds of feet high installed on the Great Lakes Science Center, next to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in downtown, Cleveland, Ohio. Congratulations! That’s a bi...
2024-01-2027 min
GrassRoot OhioState Preemption Laws w/ Tish O'DellCarolyn Harding sharing this Sprouts episode from one of GrassRoot Ohio shows featuring Tish O’Dell on State Preemption Laws and Nature’s Rights. It was an honor to work with Pacifica Radio to bring this to you.
Tish has been a Community Organizer for CELDF (Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund) since 2012 assisting residents to organize rights based initiatives in their communities in order to help them “make real” the just and sustainable communities they envision for the future. CELDF has assisted hundreds of communities across the country to develop “first in the nation” laws banning fracking, factory farming, sludging, water privat...
2023-12-2829 min
Conservation TodayKai Huschke and the Community Environmental Legal Defense FundKai Huschke, with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, talks to us about the hierarchy of community rights, states rights, and corporate rights. We look at examples of Rights of Nature laws in other countries, and why it is so difficult to have community or nature rights under the Unites States system of capitalism. Community vs corporation examples include the timber and fossil fuel industries. For more information, see https://celdf.org/.
Ending song is “Occupy the USA” from the album “Revolutions Per Minute” by Emma’s Revolution. https://emmasrevolution.com/. You can purchase this album in a non-capit...
2023-03-091h 00Conservation TodayRights of Nature in Lane CountyMichelle Holman (Community Rights Lane County) and Craig Kauffman (UO professor and author) talk about a ballot initiative to help protect Lane County watersheds and give legal rights to nature. The ballot initiative can be seen here: https://www.protectlanecountywatersheds.org/lane_county_watersheds_bill_of_rights
To get involved in Community Rights, and to donate to this project, see:
https://www.protectlanecountywatersheds.org/donate
Craig’s fascinating information is here, including a link to download his latest book: “The Politics of Rights of Nature":
https://blogs.uoregon.edu/craigkauffman/
Also...
2023-02-0758 min
GrassRoot OhioDeath by Democracy- Episode 2 - w/ Tish O'DellCarolyn Harding with Tish O’Dell, a powerful voice for justice in Ohio, the US and Globally.
Tish has been a Community Organizer for CELDF (Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund) since 2012 assisting residents to organize rights based initiatives in their communities in order to help them “make real” the just and sustainable communities they envision for the future. CELDF has assisted hundreds of communities across the country to develop “first in the nation” laws banning fracking, factory farming, sludging, water privatization, industrial scale energy development, and others addressing worker’s rights, homeless rights, immigrant rights, fair election issues and nature’s rights, incl...
2022-03-1829 min
GrassRoot OhioDeath by Democracy- Episode 1- w/ Bill Lyons and Susie BeiersdorferCarolyn Harding with Bill Lyons and Susie Beiersdorfer, Ohio community rights activists and co-writers of the new book, “Death by Democracy”.
Bill Lyons is a co-organizer of Columbus Community Bill of Rights, a group that is working to protect the water of the Columbus metro area from toxic and radioactive fracking waste. Bill is also the president of the Ohio Community Rights Network (OHCRN) whose mission is to establish a network of just communities in Ohio working to advance community rights and rights of nature. Bill also teaches mathematics at Columbus State Community College and has taught mathematics and science on 4...
2022-03-0528 min
CINEMACTIVIST14 - Filmmaking to Change the World: Joshua Pribanic & Melissa Troutman [Part 2]This is Part 2 of our conversation with Public Herald investigative journalists, Joshua Pribanic and Melissa Troutman. Public Herald’s mission is two-fold: truth + creativity. Their work uses investigative journalism and art to empower readers and hold accountable those who put the public at risk. Public Herald has garnered millions of readers, over 2,000 Lifetime Members, published exclusive investigations that reshaped the narrative on fracking, been cited in more than 20 peer-reviewed studies, regularly cited in national coverage, is licensed to more than 100 U.S. colleges, led to probes of criminal conduct, and produced three feature-length documentaries with international distribution. Our...
2021-12-011h 03
Stories of Climate Change HopeHow to Get Engaged in Divesting from Fossil FuelsSteven Myburgh has led a divestment campaign when he was still an undergraduate student at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Today he joins us and tells us more about what the campaign entailed and what it achieved. Steven and I also share what impact and agency mean for us as activists. Campaign Fossil Free Stellenbosch: https://www.facebook.com/fossilfreestellenbosch/Stellenbosch University: https://www.sun.ac.za/englishBill McKibben: http://billmckibben.com/350.org: https://350.org/350Africa: https://350africa.org/The Rights of Nature: https://www.therightsofnature...
2021-09-2654 minConservation TodayKimberly Holmquist, Douglas County Community RightsToday we talk with Kimberly Holmquist about Douglas County Community Rights and some issues before the Douglas County Commissioners, including the proposed 2,800 acre destination resort planned for near Yoncalla. Kimberly also describes the history of the “Doctrine of Discovery”, and how it favors corporate rights over community rights.
The ending song is "Why Am I An Anarchist?" by Norman Nawrocki.
For more information about the Douglas County issues discussed in this podcast, see:
https://celdf.org/community-rights/
https://communityrightslanecounty.org/
https://orcrn.org/Lincoln-county/
https://orcrn.org/
2021-05-1552 min
GrassRoot OhioDirect Democracy Denied- Columbus Community Bill of Rights w/ Bill Lyons & Terry Lodge, EsqCarolyn Harding with Bill Lyons and Terry Lodge, organizer and legal council for the Columbus Community Bill of Rights and the Ohio Community Rights Network, fighting to protect the water, air, soil & rights of Columbus Metro and communities facing environmental, social, racial & economic harms throughout Ohio.
Bill Lyons is a mathematics and science teacher who has taught nearly 40 years on four different continents at the high school and college levels. He is a co-organizer of the Columbus Community Bill of Rights group and is president of the Ohio Community Rights Group. He has been an activist since 2015 when he got...
2021-05-1429 min
The Great Futures Podcast featuring Environmental Justice VoicesEpisode 8: Capitalism w/ Lili HoschkaIn the eighth episode of the Great Futures Podcast featuring Environmental Justice Voices, I speak with Lili Hoschka, a youth activist in the Twin Cities. We talk about the evils of capitalism and why our economic system prevents environmental justice action. Enjoy!
Are you interested in learning more? Check out the following resources!
Equitable & Just National Climate Platform: https://ajustclimate.org/
The Political Ecology of American Capitalism by Faber:
About REDD+: https://indianlaw.org/content/what-redd-and-why-it-important-native-peoples
About Rights of Nature: https://celdf.org/advancing-community-rights/rights-of-nature/
Sources:
De Cristano...
2021-04-2929 min
Another World is PodableEpisode 29: The Revolution Continues with Dr. Camila Vergara talking about the radical possibilities of democracy to challenge oligarchy and systemic corruptionCamila Vergara is a critical legal theorist, historian, journalist, and public intellectual from Chile writing on the relation between inequality, corruption, and domination. She is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Eric H. Holder Jr. Initiative for Civil and Political Rights at Columbia University Law School, and author of Systemic Corruption. Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic (Princeton University Press 2020). She also is currently advising local councils in Chile to participate in the ongoing constituent process, and her current affairs essays have appeared in Jacobin Magazine, the Boston Review and Sidecar, the new online publication from the New Left...
2021-01-151h 16
The Conservation Conversation - Season 1Ep. 41 - Tish O'Dell talks about the Rights Of natureGuest Tish O'Dell from https://celdf.org/ will talk about regulatory agencies, and ways we can help protect Nature legally!
2020-11-231h 33
GrassRoot OhioWhat's in Youngstown's Water Now? The Science. Lynn Anderson, Doug Fowler, John Stolz, PhDGrassRoot Ohio with Lynn Anderson, Doug Fowler, and John Stolz PhD, activists and scientists researching the impact of unconventional shale gas (fracking) extraction in and around Youngstown and the findings of their research entitled, “Assessing the Water Chemistry of Tributaries in the Mahoning River Watershed”.
Lynn Anderson is an artist and activist from Youngstown, Ohio. In 2011 she began protecting her community against the toxic trespass of fracking waste brought in for disposal into injection wells that former Governor Kasich and his administration’s ODNR permitted to be drilled in and around Youngstown. When small earthquakes started on March 17, 2011 and culminated in a 4...
2020-10-1727 min
The Shift with Doug McKentyThe Thursday Morning Report 7: Transition TownsEnjoy this episode of the Thursday Morning Report with Jamie Lee and CELDF representative Mary Margill as we discuss the Transition Towns movement, Community rights and the Rights of Nature as potential solutions to combat the protections afforded to corporations through the legal concept of Corporate Personhood.
2020-09-181h 00
The Shift with Doug McKentyThe Thursday Morning Report 7: Transition TownsEnjoy this episode of the Thursday Morning Report with Jamie Lee and CELDF representative Mary Margill as we discuss the Transition Towns movement, Community rights and the Rights of Nature as potential solutions to combat the protections afforded to corporations through the legal concept of Corporate Personhood. Get full access to The Populist Papers at thepopulistpapers.substack.com/subscribe
2020-09-181h 00
GrassRoot OhioColumbus Community Bill of Rights Sues Columbus- B Lyons, T O'DellGrassRoot Ohio radio, 94.1FM & streaming at wgrn.org w/ Bill Lyons, Columbus Community Bill of Rights organizer, Dir. of Ohio Community Rights Network & Tish O’Dell of Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, celdf.org- when all legal recourses are denied, what can citizens do to protect their drinking water from radioactive frack waste!
ColumbusBillofRights.org
Ohiocrn.org
Celdf.org
GrassRoot Ohio w/ Carolyn Harding - Conversations with every-day people, working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio!
Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org
We now air on Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wh...
2020-06-2028 min
Conservation TodayWill Falk, author of How Dams Fail, talks about Community Rights.Should nature have rights, like people have rights and corporations have rights? Will Falk, from Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, helped bring a federal lawsuit seeking rights for the Colorado River. Will talks about the Colorado River, his book, and why nature deserves to have rights.
For more information, see https://celdf.org.
The ending song is "Battered Earth", by Sweet Honey in the Rock, from their album "Twenty Five".
2020-03-0353 min
Conservation TodayCommunity RightsMichelle Holman (Lane County) and Barbara Davis (Lincoln County) talk about the efforts to pass Community Rights in their counties, and how Douglas County citizens could benefit from this. For instance, Lincoln County citizens passed a ban on aerial herbicide spraying (spraying pesticides from helicopters over industrial lands, over streams or near to rural residents). Barbara and Michelle talk about what is community rights, the national and international movement, and how the Rights of Nature is part of the movement. For more information see:
•Oregon Community Rights Network: https://orcrn.org/
•Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund: https://celdf.org/
•Community Rights...
2019-09-3045 min
LawPodEpisode 37 - Rights of Communities, Rights of Nature.Rights of Communities, Rights of Nature: a new conversation on law and ecology with Dr Peter Doran, QUB Law, and Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, United States.
Associate Director of CELDF Mari Margil and Executive Director of CELDF Thomas Linzey join Peter Doran in a wide-ranging discussion on an emerging new paradigm in environmental law, linking the rights of communities to the rights of nature.
As the limits and systemic failures of environmental protection and governance become all too apparent across the island of Ireland, this timely conversation examines the limits of conventional environmental law ap...
2019-01-2438 min
Monde Solidaire • Fréquence Terre - La Radio NatureDroit à l’eau contre extractivisme : les projets soutenus par France LibertésDepuis 30 ans, la Fondation France Libertés soutien des projets de terrain un peu partout sur la planète. Objectif : offrir un soutien opérationnel et juridique à des associations locales qui œuvrent pour le droit à l’eau et contre les activités extractives.
Depuis 2017, ce sont quatre combats qui ont ainsi été aidés en Equateur, en Uruguay, en Afrique sub-saharienne et aux Etats-Unis, autour des trois valeurs de la Fondation, sensibiliser, plaider et agir.
Avec Justine Richer, chargée du programme « Eau, bien commun » à France libertés.
Cela fait maintenant plus de deux ans que vous suivez ces...
2018-12-1806 min
Talk World RadioTalk Nation Radio: Thomas Linzey on the Rights of Ecosystems vs. the Rights of CorporationsThomas Linzey is an attorney and the Executive Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) – a nonprofit law firm that has provided free legal services to over five hundred local governments and nonprofit organizations since 1995. He is a cum laude graduate of Widener Law School and a three-time recipient of the law school’s public interest law award. He has been a finalist for the Ford Foundation’s Leadership for a Changing World Award, and is a recipient of the Pennsylvania Farmers Union’s Golden Triangle Legislative Award. He is a co-founder of the Daniel Pennock Democracy School – now taught...
2018-06-1229 min
KPFA - Your Own Health and FitnessDemocracy SchoolThomas Linzey, Executive Director of CELDF (Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund) discusses CELDF’s Democracy School where activists are trained to counter corporate rights locally by establishing community and environmental rights.
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2017-05-3008 minMonde Solidaire • Fréquence Terre - La Radio NatureLa ressource en eau : une préservation essentielle mais difficileSensibiliser, plaider et agir, ce sont les trois volets de l’action de France Libertés. Depuis 30 ans, la Fondation soutient des projets de terrain pour défendre les droits humains, les biens communs du vivant et pour préserver les savoirs traditionnels des communautés locales pour s’en inspirer.
Cette année, quatre projets portés par des associations locales œuvrant au quotidien pour préserver la ressource en eau, sont soutenus par la Fondation.
La semaine dernière, Monde solidaire a évoqué les projets soutenus en Afrique subsaharienne et en Équateur, des actions de forma...
2017-05-0904 min
Democracy Watch NewsRadio Active West Lake Landfill 2016-02-25Robbin Dailey and Meagan Bechermann from JustMoms St. Louis report on the decades long radioactive landfill in St. Louis Missouri.
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Our Community Goals:
1. An immediate, voluntary 1 mile buy-out.
2. A 3 mile property assurance plan.
3. A safe and permanent solution to the radioactive contamination and the underground fire at this site. We believe in order for us to achieve a safe & permanent solution we need the...
2016-04-2546 min
Love (and Revolution) RadioBraiding Sweetgrass, Stopping MinesOn Love and Revolution Radio, we seek out real people and real stories about the heart of change. This week, we speak with Sandy Lyon of Northern Wisconsin about thirty years of nonviolent organizing that has asserted treaty rights, stopped mines, and driven out a US naval base. We'll be asking about the role of love, community, and the community radio station in creating a culture of creative, bold change.To learn more and connect:www.honorearth.orgBooks and Resources Mentioned:"Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer"Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn
2016-01-1300 min
Free Forum with Terrence McNallyQ&A: BIONEERS - ConferenceAired 09/26/10KEN AUSUBELFounder/Director,BIONEERS Annual Conference,Oct 15-17, 2010, San Rafael CA TOM LINZEYFounder/Executive DirectorCommunity EnvironmentalLegal Defense Fund / CELDF
2010-09-2851 minYour Community SpiritYour Community Spirit 2013-11-08News includes Colorado Voters Tell Fracking Industry Off; Frackers Might Soon Be Allowed To Float Wastewater Down Rivers; Kochs And Republicans Launch Bid To Snuff Out Wind Energy Tax Incentives; UN Says Hurry Up On Climate Action Or We’re Screwed; Bay Area Commits To 80% Greenhouse Gas Reduction. The website of the week is Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). Happenings include Compassion Food Drive; LOGIC Composting Workshop; Open Mic At Gaia House; Carbondale Farmer’s Market; Carbondale Community Farmers Market; Pyles Fork Cleanup; Carbondale In Thanksgiving; Vegetarian Thanksgiving.
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