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Ben Price

Ben Price is the National Organizer for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund and author of the award-winning book How Wealth Rules the World: Saving Our Communities and Freedoms from the Dictatorship of Property.

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The Rights of Nature Movement has gained unexpected momentum over the past decade and a half.(Photo: jotily/Getty Images)

Remembering Christopher D. Stone, An Early Scholar for Legal Rights for Nature Concept

Stone passed away on May 14.

Ben Price · May 21, 2021

Prince Charles, Prince of Wales attends the WaterAid water and climate event at Kings Place on March 10, 2020 in London, England. (Photo by Tim P. Whitby - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

'It Is Like Satire': Prince Charles' Terra Carta Is a Manifesto for the Status Quo

The ecological crisis demands we protect the Rights of Nature from being watered down.

Ben Price · Jan 19, 2021

Debra White Plume stands at Cameco Corp. uranium mine field 30 miles south of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, in Nebraska. Pollution from the site, which is located at the base of the sacred Crow Butte and named after it, inspired her film "Crying Earth Rise Up." (Photo: Courtesy Crying Earth Rise Up)

Remembering Debra White Plume

Seen through her guileless eyes, the humble truth of our kinship and solidarity beneath the real—though disproportionately unequal—oppressions of empire, became clear.

Ben Price · Dec 4, 2020

Learning from the Standing Rock Sioux

Emelyn Lybarger · Sep 17, 2016

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