Published by Global Witness, February 4, 2022. Despite the urgent need to safeguard the natural environment to mitigate the worst impacts of global heating, governments have been remarkably reluctant to sign environmental protections into law. Whilst those defending the environment often find the law used against them – through the criminalisation of peaceful protest, or [...]
Published January 27, 2022 in The News-Review By John Hunter, Douglas County Community Rights member and sitting Board member for the Oregon Community Rights Network (ORCRN) In a Nov. 26, 2021 News Review article concerning the Feb. 2020 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), is now the negotiated Private Forest Accord between 13 conservation groups and 13 [...]
Join Environmental Law Center's Executive Director @GrantWilson & speakers from @intlrivers & @protectingnimiipuu to discuss the Rights of Rivers in a FREE webinar hosted by U.S. Wild & Scenic Rivers Coalition & International Durable River Protection Coalition register: https://nau.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_woroCoqiSVerecoXptzZ7A Topic: Rights of Rivers: Understanding an Emerging Policy to Protect Riverine Ecosystems This webinar featuring Grant [...]
POWHR released this press release February Richmond, VA – Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a decision finding that Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) construction does jeopardize endangered and threatened species, countering the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s previous findings. This decision arrives a week after the Fourth Circuit ruled [...]
Press Release from Amazon Watch, February 2, 2022 Quito, Ecuador – In a reprieve for Indigenous peoples living in isolation inside of Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park, the country’s top court declared Decree 751 unconstitutional, permanently prohibiting drilling in the buffer zone. In a 6-to-1 vote, the court rejected Decree 751 issued by former President Lenin Moreno in [...]
By Joseph Winters in Grist on January 28, 2022. Advocates hope to enshrine the rights of nature and Indigenous protections into law. As Chilean President-elect Gabriel Boric prepares to assume office in March, environmental and social justice are top of mind. “To destroy the world is to destroy ourselves,” he told a crowd of supporters [...]
It's the 203rd anniversary of corporations winning constitutional so-called “rights” via the Supreme Court’s outrageous Dartmouth decision, 203 years ago TODAY. What a long strange trip it’s been!! Paul Cienfuegos, CRUS founding director, wrote this essay in honor of this day, three years ago, when CRUS hosted Corporate “Rights” Bicentennial events to commemorate this outrage in [...]
On January 20, 2022, the eve of the Citizens United Anniversary, Move to Amend Coalition Partners and the office of Representative Pramila Jayapal, Lead Congressional Sponsor for the #WethePeopleAmendment, spoke to the importance of going beyond overturning Citizens United, a symptom of the root problem, to abolish ALL corporate Constitutional Rights and money as political [...]
By Shrawan Sharma, published in The Rising Nepal daily online on January 24, 2022. With the climate change posing a survival threat to humanity, the political discourse has undergone a drastic change. It has acquired new language, logic and content after the nations faced water, health, food, energy and climate crises globally. Along with the [...]
Though this author frames the move to get permission from indigenous people as a "threat," it's actually a move to give the power back to the people...to respect the communities most affected by industry. It's a step in support of community rights. Published in Bloomberg News By Valentina Fuentes and James Attwood on January 25, [...]
