Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
View In: Community Environmental Legal Defense FundTestimony of a Community Organizer CELDF’s Consulting Director, Tish O’Dell, submitted her testimony, “Am I an Activist?” to the 2024 Spring Activism Peace Chronicle publication. Tish has been involved in community rights and Rights of Nature work starting in her own community of Broadview Heights, Ohio...

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
View In: Community Environmental Legal Defense FundDeveloped through an ongoing partnership with CELDF Exist, Flourish, Evolve is a new, multi-site, multimedia campaign that builds awareness and action around the dangers facing Lake Erie and the Great Lakes ecosystem.  The post Changing Culture,Changing Law through Art – Andrea Bowers and CELDF: Exist...

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
View In: Community Environmental Legal Defense FundPress release · 11th Local Rights of Nature Tribunal Biobío, Concepción, Chile International Rights of Nature Tribunal rules impacts caused by current forestry model as ecocide The International Rights of Nature Tribunal held its 11th Local Tribunal in the Biobío region in Chile on Friday, January 12...

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
View In: Community Environmental Legal Defense FundThe "Exist, Flourish, Evolve" art show will be held at The Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art and will focus on Rights of Nature and the Great Lakes in particular. The post Raising Awareness through art – Andrea Bowers: Exist, Flourish, Evolve appeared first on CELDF.

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
View In: Community Environmental Legal Defense FundTHANK YOU for being part of CELDF’s work for People and Nature. The post Happy Holidays from CELDF – Time is of the Essence! appeared first on CELDF.

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
View In: Community Environmental Legal Defense FundLaw and culture. Culture and law. Which comes first, and how are they related? CELDF and partners hosted Truth, Reckoning, and Right Relationship with the Great Lakes in the fall of 2023 to wrestle with these questions. This impactful compilation video of that full-day gathering reflects a range of truth...