Truth and Reckoning
CELDF, Max Wilbert, Will Falk, Tish O'Dell, Ben G. Price, Keala Kelly, Kai Huschke, Anthony Rogers-WrightThe Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund partners with people and communities to establish local self-governance necessary for living harmoniously within the boundaries of ecology.
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The mission of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is to build sustainable communities by assisting people to assert their right to local self-government and the rights of nature.
Third-generation political dissident. I fight for the natural world. \ud83c\udf0e
Author, Attorney, Activist. The natural world speaks. My work is an attempt to listen.
I am a mid-western human who loves Lake Erie, the Oceans, the forests, my family & life in general. All that I love is under attack from a system & culture that only cares about more profits. This is why I do what I do.
Ben Price is a pioneer in the Rights of Nature Movement. and author of “How Wealth Rules the World," the novel, “OGDEN" and his collection of essays on community and environment "Wouldn’t You Say?"
The Native Truth offers bite-sized thoughts and knowledge about Indigenous peoples' cultures and resistance to colonization. I am an independent Native Hawaiian journalist, filmmaker, editor, columnist, podcaster, activist and media strategist.
I'm the Executive Director for CELDF. I teach, present, and write extensively on movement building, community rights, rights of nature, and the intersection of culture and law.
Angry Black man and Climate Justice seeker from Brooklyn, Father of Zah, Yankees, and Giants, Low-End Technician, Mets Suck fight me.
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