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Jane McAlevey, author of Raising Expectations and Raising Hell, stops by the program to talk about the future of the labor movement, her time spent organizing in it, and how to win.

Thomas Linzey from Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund joins us on the program to talk about the nationwide movement to establish the rights of communities and nature. Here's how CELDF describes itself: “The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund is a non-profit, public interest law firm providing free and affordable legal services to communities facing threats to their local environment, local agriculture, the local economy, and quality of life. Our mission is to build sustainable communities by assisting people to assert their right to local self-government and the rights of nature. Established in 1995, CELDF has now become the principal advisor to community groups and municipal governments determined to transition from merely regulating corporate harms to stopping those harms by asserting local, democratic control directly over corporations. Through grassroots organizing, public education and outreach, legal assistance, and drafting of ordinances, nearly 200 municipalities in ten states have adopted CELDF-drafted Community Bills of Rights laws. These laws address activities such as shale gas drilling and fracking, corporate water withdrawals, longwall coal mining, factory farming, the land application of sewage sludge, and uranium mining.” Enjoy! Reach out to fightbackpodcast@gmail.com with any questions or things you want to talk about!