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Webinar: First Rights of Salmon Case Goes to Tribal Court, March 30

Webinar: First Rights of Salmon Case Goes to Tribal Court, March 30 7pm Eastern. Register Now! #rightsofnature First Rights of Salmon Case Goes to Tribal Court  Sauk-Suiattle Tribe v. City of Seattle Wednesday, March 30 7pm Eastern/4pm Pacific The Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER) and our partner Menīkānaehkem are pleased to present and [...]

By |2022-03-01T13:57:25-08:00March 4th, 2022|Event Announcements|

Event: Wild Rice and Rights of Nature talk March 6

Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, Sunday March 6. White Earth Tribal Attorney Frank Bibeau and Thomas Linzey from the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights, and  will be presenting on the Rights of Wild Rice and the fight against the Line 3 pipeline @PIELCOU, Sunday, March 6, 9am P.T.! http://pielc.org #rightsofnature,  #rightsofwildrice Here's a bit [...]

By |2022-03-01T09:50:09-08:00March 2nd, 2022|Event Announcements|

January/February 2021 Newsletter: Corporate Cookie Plates vs. Life-affirming Choices

Protecting the Rights of People & Nature From the Local Up Subscribe | CRUS Homepage | Donate Hello and thank you for all your generous gifts during our end-of-year fundraiser. We're off to a strong start in the new year with just about $6,000 raised from Giving Tuesday through December. We are ever grateful for [...]

By |2022-03-09T12:26:07-08:00February 28th, 2022|Community Rights US Newsletters|

‘Rights of Nature’ laws can strengthen Indigenous sovereignty and provide a pathway to environmental justice

White Earth Nation’s fight to protect “wild rice” from the Line 3 pipeline reflects a larger question about the legal rights of nature. Published by PrismReports, by Ray Levy Uyeda February 22nd, 2022. U.S. federal judges will soon decide whether a lawsuit can proceed in the tribal court of White Earth Nation to decide if [...]

By |2022-02-27T18:01:36-08:00February 28th, 2022|Rights of Nature|

Corporate Cookie Plates vs. Life-affirming Choices

When the only options before us are geared toward harm, it's time to rewrite the choices. By Michelle W. Martin, CRUS Social Media Coordinator, Feb 26, 2022. There’s a strategy employed by many parents of toddler-sized children when the inevitable, yet sad time comes to leave the playground—perhaps you are familiar with it. The technique [...]

By |2022-02-27T21:55:39-08:00February 26th, 2022|Uncategorized|

Indigenous Rights Victories at Ecuador’s High Court Deal Blow to Government’s Plans to Expand Oil and Mining

By Kevin Koenig in Amazon Watch on February 15, 2022. Ecuador’s plans to greatly expand oil and mining extraction in the Amazon hit a major snag last week as the nation’s Constitutional Court handed down multiple decisions that affirm Indigenous rights and limit extraction. In a major victory for Indigenous rights in Ecuador and beyond, [...]

By |2022-02-27T21:37:08-08:00February 25th, 2022|Right to Local, Community Self-Government|

New Podcast features rights of nature in Minnesota

Damages "Law & Order meets the climate crisis as we dig into the stories behind more than 200 climate cases around the globe."-Producers of  the new podcast "Damages" In the first episode of Damages Journalist Amy Westervelt and team look at a fascinating case in Minnesota, where the White Earth band of Ojibwe have filed [...]

By |2022-02-22T10:28:45-08:00February 23rd, 2022|Rights of Nature|

Can Rights of Nature Laws Make a Difference? In Ecuador, They Already Are

The court’s ruling cheered environmentalists and sent shock waves through the mining industry, which now must prove that projects don’t harm ecosystems or endanger species. By Katie Surma, published by Iniside Climate News on February 21, 2022. Until recently, so-called “rights of nature” provisions that confer legal rights to rivers, forests and other ecosystems have [...]

By |2022-02-21T19:38:33-08:00February 21st, 2022|Rights of Nature|

Lessons from Ecuador

Published by CELDF, by Tish O'Dell on December 17, 2021. Drawing on a provision in Ecuador’s popularly-adopted constitution of 2008, the nation’s Constitutional Court (Ecuador’s highest court) halted mining concessions and permits issued in the Los Cedros Protected Forest ecosystem. The mining would violate the Rights of Nature, the court ruled in the landmark decision. [...]

By |2022-02-18T11:23:22-08:00February 18th, 2022|Rights of Nature|

Press Release, Chile: The Rights of Nature are Analyzed in the Constitutional Convention

Press Release: CDER participated in the launch of Rights of Nature in Chile book, and will provide key legal inputs to the Constitutional Convention Press Release – English/Español February 16, 2022 Contact: Hugo Echeverría, Attorney, echejur@yahoo.ca Mari Margil, Executive Director, mmargil@centerforenvironmentalrights.org Chile is in a historic moment of constitutional transformation: By citizen decision, a Constitutional [...]

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