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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.
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Rural America
Hey Liberal, You’re Late, but Welcome to the Local-Control Party
Thomas Linzey
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Rural America
No More Fairy Tales: Why the United States Needs a Whole New Operating System
Thomas Linzey
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Rural America
Can the Community Rights Movement Fix Capitalism?
Thomas Linzey
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Rural America
Pebble Mine: “One More Indicator That We Are Undoubtedly the Dumbest Species on the Planet”
Thomas Linzey
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Rural America
Community Rights: Because Climate Conferences Won’t Stop Climate Change
Thomas Linzey
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Rural America
Rigged: How Our Legal System Prevents Communities from Governing Themselves
Thomas Linzey
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Rural America
“We’ve Broken the Planet”: A Case for Liberation Ecology and the Rights of Nature
Thomas Linzey
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Rural America
Community Override: When State Legislatures Preempt Democracy
Thomas Linzey
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Rural America
Slaves In All But Name: Abolishing the Corporate State in Rural Communities
Thomas Linzey
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Rural America
Fracking Bans Are Teaching Americans That They Are Not as Free as They Think
Thomas Linzey
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Rural America
Citizens United, Democracy and the Two Paths that Lie Before Us
Thomas Linzey
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Rural America
Greasing the System: Why Corporate ‘Rights’ Matter
Thomas Linzey
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Rural America
The Myth of Community Rights: Self-Governance has a Corporate Ceiling
Thomas Linzey
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Rural America
Firing Big Green: Are National Environmental Groups Really Serving the People?
Thomas Linzey
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Rural America
The Spirit of 1773 and the Right to Local Self-Government
Thomas Linzey