Thomas Linzey - In These Times

Thomas Linzey, a contributing writer to Rural America In These Times, is the executive director and co-founder of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) and serves as the organization’s chief legal counsel.

CELDF provides free and legal services to community-based groups and local governments working to protect their quality of life and natural environment. The organization also sponsors Democracy Schools, from which more than 3,000 citizens have graduated.

Hey Liberal, You’re Late, but Welcome to the Local-Control Party

No More Fairy Tales: Why the United States Needs a Whole New Operating System

Can the Community Rights Movement Fix Capitalism?

Pebble Mine: “One More Indicator That We Are Undoubtedly the Dumbest Species on the Planet”

Community Rights: Because Climate Conferences Won’t Stop Climate Change

Rigged: How Our Legal System Prevents Communities from Governing Themselves

“We’ve Broken the Planet”: A Case for Liberation Ecology and the Rights of Nature

Community Override: When State Legislatures Preempt Democracy

Slaves In All But Name: Abolishing the Corporate State in Rural Communities

Fracking Bans Are Teaching Americans That They Are Not as Free as They Think

Citizens United, Democracy and the Two Paths that Lie Before Us

Greasing the System: Why Corporate ‘Rights’ Matter

The Myth of Community Rights: Self-Governance has a Corporate Ceiling

Firing Big Green: Are National Environmental Groups Really Serving the People?

The Spirit of 1773 and the Right to Local Self-Government