Rights of Nature

KBOO FM: Pandemic opens up conversation about the Rights of Nature and protecting the environment

This 16 minute interview with Kai Huschke, Pacific Northwest organizer with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), was published on KBOO FM's website on April 9th, 2020. “[There is an opportunity] for communities, whether it’s small ones, or even larger cities, to really take the reins and say ‘no, we clearly need more power [...]

Common Dreams: Advancing Change in a Time of Disruption: Forging a New Pathway for Nature

A disruption—such as a global pandemic—can provide a window of opportunity to change our habits and make positive change. This article by Mari Margil was published in Common Dreams on April 1st, 2020. I first traveled to Nepal in 2012 to meet with members of the Constituent Assembly drafting the country’s new constitution. The central [...]

Rolling Stone: Nature Scores a Big Win Against Fracking in a Small Pennsylvania Town

After a seven-year battle, Grant Township fought off a permit for an injection well. “Fights like ours should mushroom all around Pennsylvania,” says town supervisor This article by Justin Noble appeared in Rolling Stone magazine on April 1st, 2020. An unlikely crew of environmentalists who took on the powerful Pennsylvania fracking industry in a David vs. Goliath [...]

Common Dreams: Corporate America Is on Offense—Local Communities Can Be Too

This crisis calls for us to challenge the government system that is failing us. Now is an opportunity for radical collective action. This article by Simon Davis-Cohen and Tish O'Dell was published in Common Dreams on March 31st, 2020. Since a national emergency was called in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of Kentucky [...]

Breaking the Spell of Misguided Obedience

A Letter to Lake Erie from Lake Erie Bill of Rights Petitioner Markie Miller This letter was published on the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund's website on February 26, 2020. Dear Lake Erie, As I write this, you are dying. I am searching for the right words – of comfort, inspiration, even acceptance – because [...]

BREAKING: Repressive Tactics Used to Attack Rights of Nature

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, corporate plaintiff demands $293,750 from City of Toledo for defending the Lake Erie Bill of Rights. This press release was published by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) on March 13, 2020. TOLEDO,OH: The international corporate law firm Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, has filed a motion demanding $293,750 [...]

Street Roots News: The Rights of Nature: A changing battleground in the fight for the Snake River

The movement to legally enshrine the rights of species and ecosystems has been gaining steam worldwide This article by Helen Hill was published in Street Roots News on March 6th, 2020. In a letter to Washington Gov. Jay Inslee dated Feb. 11, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown offered her full support for removal of the four [...]

Wisconsin Public Radio: An ‘Indicator Plant’: Wild Rice Struggles To Survive In A Changing Climate

Manoomin, A Cultural And Nutritional Staple For Thousands Of Years, Faces Wide Range Of Threats This article my Mary Kate McCoy appeared on Wisconsin Public Radio's website on March 2nd, 2020. Manoomin, or wild rice, has been a spiritual, cultural and culinary staple for Wisconsin tribes for thousands of years. But experts estimate it’s lost [...]

By |2020-03-18T08:55:50-07:00March 18th, 2020|Indigenous Voices, Rights of Nature|

Rights for Nature

This article by Karen Coulter was posted by the Program on Corporations Law and Democracy on March, 2020. Why Rights for Nature? The Rights for Nature concept would create an ethical and legal system, which is necessary to counter capitalist or corporate exploitation of Nature. The aim of converting Nature into commodities without reference to [...]

Press Release: Recognition of the Rights of the Menominee River.

This press release was published on the Center for Democratic and Environmental Right's (CDER) website on February 18th, 2020. February 18, 2020 · In January 2020, the legislature of the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin adopted Resolution 19-52, Recognition of the Rights of the Menominee River. As the resolution explains, the Menominee people's "place of origin was at [...]

By |2020-03-06T09:27:02-08:00March 3rd, 2020|Indigenous Voices, Press Releases, Rights of Nature|
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