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Truth and Reckoning

by CELDF

Truth and Reckoning is a broadcast of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) focused on environmental justice, frontline action, community rights, and the rights of nature. celdf.substack.com

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  1. Learning Nonviolent Direct Action Skills with Lina Blount

    Welcome 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...

  2. Movement Building for the Next American Revolution

    Welcome 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...

  3. Border Surveillance and Militarization in Southern California’s Imperial Valley

    Welcome 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...

  4. The 20-Year Anniversary of the First Rights of Nature Law

    Welcome 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...

  5. Organizing for True Grassroots Power with Peter Block

    Welcome to Truth and Reckoning, a newsletter and podcast 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,...

  6. STANDING WITH THE GRANDMOTHERS: Direct Action is Halting Border Wall Construction

    Welcome to Truth and Reckoning, a newsletter and podcast 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,...

  7. “Animikiiwadiswan” Thunderbird Nest: Anti-Mining Occupation Launched in Michigan

    Welcome to Truth and Reckoning, a newsletter and podcast 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,...

  8. Water is Life: Walking the Columbia River w/ Julie Lomboy

    Welcome to Truth and Reckoning, a newsletter and podcast 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,...

  9. This Revolutionary Moment: A Conversation With Tad Stoermer

    This year marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the beginning of armed revolution against the English crown, and an internal struggle between reformers and reactionaries which would ultimately lead the United States further down the path of imperialism…

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  10. Reconnecting Education and Nature

    Welcome 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...

  11. The Broken Revolution: 1776-2026

    This year marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in what is now the United States. With it came the launch of an armed revolution against distant fascist leaders and a struggle between reformers and reactionaries who would ultimately lead the budding nation...

  12. BLACK OUT: A Conversation on Systemic Racism With Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright

    This is 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...

  13. "What Revolution? Systemic Racism, Sexism, and Genocide from America's Beginning"

    This is 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...

  14. Donkeys, Slowing Down, and Eco-Collapse with Jeff McFadden

    Welcome 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,...

  15. The Civil War is Already Here

    Through the 4th of July CELDF will be challenging dishonest narratives about America’s past and how those lies distort our lives in the present. This essay is the last installment in a four-part series of reflections on the Declaration of Independence from CELDF’s staff. By Max Wilbert The...

  16. When Revolution Stops Sounding Radical

    Welcome 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...

  17. The Danger of the Declaration of Independence

    Welcome 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...

  18. Freedom for Who? Reflections of an American Woman on the Declaration of Independence

    Welcome 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...

  19. Fracking, Workers Health, and Labor Power w/ Truckers Movement for Justice

    Welcome 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,...

  20. Urgent Threat to Alaska Rainforests

    Welcome 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,...

  21. Community Resistance to Toxic Waste Mining w/ Tom Grotewohl

    Welcome 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,...

  22. "Greedy Hands in the Wetland" — Update on Virginia Beach Forest Destruction

    Welcome 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,...

  23. "It Rips Your Heart Out" — Defending Southern Arizona's Borderlands with Kate Scott and Tony Heath

    Welcome 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,...

  24. Defending 2,000-Year-Old Forests w/ Elder Bill Jones and Will O'Connell

    If 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…

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  25. Funding the Transformation with Kai Huschke

    Welcome 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,...

  26. Indigenous Environmental Justice with Dina Gilio-Whitaker

    Welcome 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,...

  27. Climate Collapse, Imperialism, and Technological Solutionism in Academia with Aashis Joshi

    Welcome 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,...

  28. Art and Ecology with Carine Gibert

    Welcome 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...

  29. “It’s a Rigged System” — Community Rights and Environmental Protection w/ Sherry Fleming and Bill Lyons

    Welcome 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...

  30. Portraits of Heroes with Robert Shetterly

    Welcome 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…

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  31. Unplugged: Shannon Rowan on Technology's Hidden Costs

    Welcome 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…

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  32. Rights 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…

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  33. Christian Church, Meets the Church of Mother Nature

    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…

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  34. Frontline Resistance Insights from the Philippines and the Appalachian South

    Welcome to Truth and Reckoning, a podcast from CELDF — the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. On this episode, we share the recording from our recent event This special event, “Solidarity Against Tyranny: Frontline Resistance Insights from the Philippines and the Appalachian South,” took...

  35. State Repression, Vigilante Violence, and People's Resistance

    Welcome to Truth and Reckoning, a podcast from CELDF — the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. 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…

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  36. "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...

  37. A Voice for the Trees

    Welcome 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…

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  38. "Patch by Patch, the Habitat is Being Erased" - Diamondback Terrapins with Dr. John Aguiar

    Welcome 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…

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  39. Truth and Reckoning Episode 1: The Rights of Water in New York State

    Welcome 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...

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Truth and Reckoning is a broadcast of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) focused on environmental justice, frontline action, community rights, and the rights of nature.

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