Colombian cyclist Egan Arley Bernal Gómez and this year’s winner of the Tour de France has captured the world’s attention as the first Latin American to don its leading yellow jersey. What readers may not know is that Colombia also wears the yellow jersey in the race for protection of Mother Earth – blazing the [...]
This article by Dana Drugmand was published in YES! magazine on August 31, 2016. In the face of the climate crisis imperiling endangered species, some activists and governments are turning to a radical, rights-based approach to protect nature. The Pacific Northwest’s most iconic species—the orcas that live in the Salish Sea year-round—are on the brink [...]
This blog post by Mari Margil, Associate Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, was posted on August 14th, 2019. We now know that July 2019 was the hottest month in recorded human history, with 2016 – 2018 the hottest years in recorded history. We know that more than 1 million species are at risk as human activities push “the planet towards [...]
Patrick Farnsworth interviews Will Falk about his newly released book "How Dams Fall" and other essential Community Rights topics on his Last Born in the Wilderness podcast. It was published on July 29th, 2019. Below is the description of the interview. In this episode I speak with lawyer and radical environmental activist Will Falk. In [...]
This story by Ashley Westerman was published on National Public Radio's website on August 3rd, 2019. In early July, Bangladesh became the first country to grant all of its rivers the same legal status as humans. From now on, its rivers will be treated as living entities in a court of law. The landmark ruling by [...]
Native Hawaiians are protesting the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea. Where do we go from here? This article by Sarah Emerson and Becky Ferreira was published in Vice.com on July 26th, 2019. Thousands of people including Native Hawaiians—Kanaka Maoli or Kanaka ʻŌiwi—gathered at Mauna Kea last week to protest the construction [...]
Final Verdict Protects a Half-Million Acres of Amazon Rainforest from Oil Drilling This article by Amazon Frontlines appeared in Intercontinental Cry on July 13th, 2019. After a hard-fought appeal, the Waorani people of Pastaza won a historic and final appellate ruling in Ecuadorian court protecting half a million acres of their territory in the Amazon [...]
Derrick Jensen interviews Ben Price, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund's (CELDF) national organizing director, about his newly published book, "How Wealth Rules the World: Saving our Communities and Freedoms from the Dictatorship of Property." on June 2nd, 2019. This 53 minute interview can be listened to and downloaded HERE and HERE. A bit about [...]
Members voted Thursday to adopt constitution, elections act, membership act and governance act This news article by Jamie Malbeuf appeared in the CBC News on May 24, 2019. The Fort McKay Métis near Fort McMurray has declared self-governance after members voted to adopt a constitution, elections act, membership act and governance act. The move is a [...]
This article by John Ahni Schertow was published in Cultural Survival on May 21, 2019. This month, the Yurok Tribal Council voted unanimously in favor of a resolution establishing the rights of the Klamath River. According to the Yurok Tribe, the resolution “establishes the Rights of the Klamath River to exist, flourish, and naturally evolve; [...]
