We the People 2.0 - The Film
Look through the eyes of people across the United States, who have faced decades of environmental assaults, and have learned how to break through the system.
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We help communities and groups like yours.
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.
Press Releases & Blogs
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Guest Blog: American Propaganda
Propaganda is key to controlling our political landscape. Media literacy is crucial to our social activism - we must understand the elite's control of mass media and how it distorts reality if we are going to stop the corporate state.
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Blog: Matters of State Concern: The Tyranny of Preemption
The corporate state justifies obliterating local democracy through claims to be protecting the interests of residents across the state. We can no longer tolerate this tyranny.
Community Wires
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Counterpunch: Get The Frack Out of Pennsylvania
Fiction mirrors reality, and author Lee Ballinger draws the parallels between a novel set in Pennsylvania describing the ravages of fracking, and the reality in Grant Township, where residents are fighting back to protect themselves and assert their rights.
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The Athens Messenger: HB 463 will not stand
Ohioans recognize the state legislature's assault on democracy through the adoption of HB 463. Presented as a foreclosure bill, legislators encroached on citizens' right to initiative, blocking the right to local self-government.
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Changing the Game with Community Rights – Aberdeen, OR
January 20, 2017Democracy Rising hosts CELDF's Kai Huschke on Community Rights, and how to shift to protecting our communities from corporate harms, and build sustainability. Join us!
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We the People 2.0 in Kahului, Maui
January 21, 2017Upcountry Sustainability hosts We the People 2.0 in Kahului, Maui, and CELDF's Kai Huschke follows with Q & A. Learn more here!
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We the People 2.0 in Asheville, NC
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We the People 2.0: Colorado Environmental Film Festival
February 23, 2017 — February 25, 2017We the People 2.0 - The Second American Revolution, is showing in February at CEFF. Join us!
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Community Rights for Social Justice: Growing Roots and Rights – a Workshop in Columbus
March 4, 2017Join Columbus residents as they learn how our structure of law and governance blocks them from protecting their community from harms such as fracking, police brutality, slavery wages, and more - and what they can do about it. Check it out on March 4th!
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Featured Articles
Blog: Matters of State Concern: The Tyranny of Preemption
January 15, 2017The corporate state justifies obliterating local democracy through claims to be protecting the interests of residents across the state. We can no longer tolerate this tyranny.
Guest Blog: American Propaganda
January 15, 2017Propaganda is key to controlling our political landscape. Media literacy is crucial to our social activism - we must understand the elite's control of mass media and how it distorts reality if we are going to stop the corporate state.
Blog: From Standing Rock to Million Women March and Beyond…if There is One
January 7, 2017From North Dakota to Washington, D.C., people are gathering to protect water, air, and soil, and to make a stand for justice and equality. What's next?
A Problem: Corporations have been granted rights allowing them to wreak havoc in communities for over 200 years.We can stop this. Here's how...
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Stand With Tacoma, WA, in Their Fight for Democratic Rights
Show Your SupportWhat happens in Tacoma when the people exercise their inalienable right to protect their water, and their democratic right to initiative? The corporate state strips those rights. But Tacomans are clear that they will protect their community and their water. The corporate elite’s attempts to intimidate them through the courts is failing.
Stand up with the people of Tacoma as they fight to protect their right to water and their right to vote!
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Sign Up Now to Support Youngstown, OH, Fighting for Community Rights
Show Your SupportYoungstown, OH, residents, like many communities across the U.S., live under a structure of law and governance that favors big business exploitation and profits over the democratic and environmental rights of communities. With the oil and gas industry and their own local government working against them, the Youngstown community refuses to give up.
Sign up now to show support for their uncompromising commitment to protect their community.