Advocates for the legal rights of nature say yes. Published January 24, 2022 in National Catholic Reporter by Barbara Fraser. Nauta, Peru — Three years ago, in January 2019, residents of communities along Peru’s Marañón River crammed into the sweltering meeting room that serves as the town hall in this small Amazonian city to hear [...]
Published January 20, 2022 by Paul Powlesland on the blog, Lawyers for Nature. A vital role for all lawyers: protecting the planet and bringing about the Rights of Nature through the creation – and enforcement – of an ecosystem of legal interventions at the international and local level. The Bar prides itself on the fact [...]
The Oregon Community Rights Network hosts a monthly Chat for Change. Wednesday, January 26th @6:30pm PST. When communities have no recognized authority to enact local laws that protect the rights of people, communities, and ecosystems, they are denied authority to protect their health, safety and well-being. There is an inherent danger when we separate our [...]
As if we need any more examples as to why we need to strip business corporations of all of their corporate constitutional "rights" as quickly as possible before it becomes so unmanageable that corporations themselves become our literal governing bodies. But here's an example anyway: America’s largest oil firm claims its history of publicly denying [...]
Published by Matthew L.M. Fletcher on the Turtle Talk blog on January 10, 2022. Here is the complaint in Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe v. City of Seattle (Sauk-Suiattle Tribal Court): SAU-CIV-01-22-001 Civil Complaint SAU-CIV-01-22-001 Summons See the original blog post HERE. Photo credit: "Lower Baker Dam, 2009" by Gord McKenna is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Published Jan 5, 2022 on "The Hightower Lowdown." As an old axiom notes, “Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.” From coast to coast, millions of these long-lived jewels have graced our landscape, but one mighty specimen in particular has recently become a hardy symbol of a fast-growing environmental movement. The significance of this oak–rooted on [...]
Published Dec 9, 2021 on “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives.” This month’s interview on “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” will give us a fresh perspective – and propose a fresh solution – for some environmental problems that are serious but are not being solved by conventional methods. In the U.S., Latin America, and elsewhere, a movement is growing to [...]
The New Hampshire Community Rights Network answers this question: People’s Right of Local Community Self-Government and Rights of Nature/Ecosystems Right of Local, Community Self-Government The right of local, community self-government is a fundamental, individual political right – exercised collectively – of people to govern the local communities in which they reside. The right includes three [...]
By Michelle Sanborn for the Concord Monitor on December 20, 2021. Freedom to one person can be an injustice to another, but that which supports life is universal to us all. There was a recent post on Facebook that describes freedoms in a common-sense way. “Common sense is as easy as pie! This should be [...]
Following in the footsteps of Chevron's private prosecution of Steven Donziger, another corporation may move to criminally prosecute non-violent protesters in Canada--this after public prosecutors declined to pursue the case. The group was arrested on Feb. 24, 2020 By Colin Dacre / Castanet in The Prince George Citizen on December 28, 2021. CN Rail has [...]
