Resistance Radio - Thomas Linzey - 10/20/13

Thomas Linzey is an attorney and the Executive Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) – a nonprofit law firm that has provided free legal services to over five hundred local governments and nonprofit organizations since 1995. He is a co-founder of the Daniel Pennock Democracy School – now taught in twenty-four states across the country which has graduated over 5,000 lawyers, activists, and municipal officials – which assists groups to create new community campaigns which elevate the rights of those communities over rights claimed by corporations. In 2008 he assisted the Ecuadorian constitutional assembly to adopt the world’s first constitution recognizing the independently enforceable rights of ecosystems.