Two sessions hosted by Lincoln County Community Rights. Dec. 16th 12:30pm & 6:30pm What started by a vote of the People in 2017 banning the practice of aerial spraying of toxic biocides, lead to the lower courts suppressing their vote in favor of corporate rights. The on-going court process recently ended when the Oregon Supreme [...]
CDER and partners are pleased to present a “deep dive” workshop on the White Earth case to enforce the rights of manoomin (wild rice). Update: Find a recording of the event HERE. December 7, 2021 online event, hosted by the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights. About this event Online Event: The First Rights of [...]
Come discuss what to do when courts hamper citizen's initiatives with Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. Thursday, November 18th @ 12:30 pm PDT + 6:30 pm PDT Direct democracy, through the use of the citizen’s initiative system, has been denied in Lane and Lincoln counties. This travesty has legal and political implications statewide. The attempts [...]
Panel of Judges will hear cases on global warming and Amazon. November 3, 4 15 h GMT; 8am PDT Tweet from International Rights of Nature Tribunal on 10/12/21 @rontribunal Glasgow #RightsofNatureTribunal 2021 hears the #ClimateChange case & #Amazon case at #COP26Nov 3rd & 4h, 15h GMT More information: http://rightsofnaturetribunal.org/tribunals/glasgow-tribunal-2021 Sign up: http://bit.ly/rightsofnature The Fifth [...]
Supernatural Beings and Sacred Places This second of three webinars hosted at the Peter A Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia will focus on supernatural beings and sacred places. Panelists will speak to Indigenous peoples' efforts to enact or revitalize laws that respect and protect the ancestors and supernatural beings embodied [...]
CELDF Press Release: NCRN hosts a conversation with CELDF lawyers. Wednesday, September 29th @ 8pm ET and 5pm PT On Wednesday, September 29th at 8pm ET and 5pm PT, the National Community Rights Network will sit down with CELDF attorneys who do the work of elevating people and nature in the eyes of the law. [...]
The University of Washington 2021 Doug Walker Lecture will be Thursday, October 7th, 5:30 p.m. PST. Human well-being and the health of our environment are inseparable. Indigenous Peoples have long recognized that nature has inherent and inalienable rights and have actively integrated that philosophy into their stewardship. Understanding our symbiotic relationship with the environment can [...]
Center for Law and the Environment Press Release: Register for the first of three free bilingual webinars Sept 22: Recognition for Non-Human Relations: Rivers, with Yenny Vega Cárdenas (OIDN), Mumta Ito @NaturesRights, @chuckforflorida,Pier-Olivier Boudreault of @snapqc @cpaws https://bit.ly/3sSRPsh
CELDF Workshop - September 9 at 6:30 pm PT On Thursday, September 9 at 6:30 pm, please join us for a workshop by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) “Preemption as a Lethal Weapon: How Corporations and Government are Deliberately Destroying Communities and Nature”. We will record and broadcast this event on Facebook Live. Facebook Event [...]
On Saturday, July 3rd, 2021 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm, the SWFL RESET Center is hosting a live presentation about the Right to Clean Water and the Rights of Nature. Learn about the current efforts to amend the Florida State Constitution to make these rights the law of the land. This event is not only educational, [...]
