This media release was published by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund on November 25, 2019. AUSTRALIA: The first Rights of Nature legislation has been introduced in Australia, into the Western Australia Parliament. The International Center for the Rights of Nature assisted Member of Parliament Diane Evers and the Australian Earth Laws Alliance in drafting the bill. Western Australia [...]
This article was recently posted at the Bioneer's website. "As the original caretakers of the land, Indigenous Peoples have been on the frontlines of environmental justice movements, not only to protect their own communities, but also to preserve humanity’s harmony with the Earth. Bioneers is dedicated to uplifting the work, wisdom and voices of Indigenous [...]
This article by Florangel Rosario Braid was published in Manila Bulletin on November 16, 2019. Environmentalism’s next frontier is giving nature legal rights, a paradigm shift in especially in our country where our laws are centered on the human being, not on the environment. However, there is a growing movement around the world today which [...]
Reflections on Community Rights from Rural America is a monthly column by CR activist and organizer Curt Hubatch. Curt is an unschooling father of two young children and one young adult. Currently he works as a substitute rural letter carrier for the USPS. He lives in a cordwood house that he built with his wife, [...]
This article by Max Wilbert was published by Deep Green Resistance News Service on November 1st, 2019. As the world moves further into a state of climate crisis, it’s imperative that we study and critique the strategies being proposed to address greenhouse gas emissions, and develop our own strategies based on rigorous assessment of their [...]
This article was written and published by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund on October 23, 2019. Since its inception, a state-wide movement in Ohio has faced a state and corporate attack that amounts to concerted opposition from all branches of state government, corporate lobbies, private law firms, and both political parties. The entire repressive [...]
This eighteen minute talk by Kat Houghton was post on the TEDx Talk's website on November 7th, 2019. Peak into the dominant cultural consciousness that holds humans separate and above the rest of the natural world. Explore worldviews from diverse cultures and western science that help us question our beliefs about our place in [...]
Thom Hartmann on why we should use constitutional solutions to rescue our democracy from the agendas of billionaires and corporations. This excerpt by Thom Hartmann was published in Yes! magazine on November 1st, 2019. There were those among the founders and framers of the Constitution who didn’t mean for the Court to have as much [...]
Around the world, a movement is gaining momentum that grants legal rights to natural phenomena, including rivers, lakes and mountains. Robert Macfarlane investigates the rise of the new animism This article by Robert Macfarlane appeared in The Guardian on November 2nd, 2019. On 26 February 2019, a lake became human. For years, Lake Erie – the southernmost [...]
This article by Alex Brown was published on the Pew Charitable Trust website on October 30, 2019. When members of the White Earth band of Ojibwe in Minnesota take out their canoes to harvest wild rice, they’re gathering a source of nourishment and following a tradition that has connected them to the land for generations. [...]
