This article by Lindsey Wittenberg Samuelson was published on the Nightingale for Global Health's website on June 5th, 2019. When my daughter was less than 3 months old, I got a call early one morning from a panicked family friend. “Have you drank from your tap today?” I quickly thought about it. I had just [...]
Corporate powers—who have perverted law, logic and nature to have their lifeless profiteering entities declared "persons"—are aghast that Mother Nature not only has rights but those rights can be legally and morally superior to the claim that a corporation's right to profit is absolute This article by Jim Hightower was published in Common Dreams on [...]
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 [...]
Attorney General files complaint against the Lake Erie Bill of Rights protecting polluters This press release was published by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund on May 28th, 2019. COLUMBUS, OH: On Friday, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost filed a legal complaint to have the Lake Erie Bill of Rights (LEBOR) overturned. The AG’s filing comes less than [...]
This article by Josh McCormack appeared in Salud America! on May 23rd, 2019. Crystal Jankowski ran the faucet in her hospital room for 12 hours straight the day she gave birth — all in hopes that the tap water would come out clean for Amelia, her newborn girl. Just days before her [...]
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; [...]
This press release was released by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund on May 21, 2019. Crackdowns on local democracy are accelerating, as corporate and state interests continue efforts to repress social movements. In this well-timed book, How Wealth Rules the World, Ben Price presciently reveals structures of power and law that facilitate blatant corporate supremacy in [...]
This letter to the editor by Thomas Linzey appeared in the Spokesman-Review on May 19th, 2019. In response to “EPA announces it will lower PCB standards in Spokane River” (May 11, 2019): Not surprisingly, the Spokane River is again under attack. Again, not surprisingly, the latest attack comes from the unholy alliance between the federal [...]
This press release by Community Rights of San Juan appeared in the San Juan Islander on May 14, 2019. COMMUNITY RIGHTS OF SAN JUAN ISLANDS PRESS RELEASE: The Salish Sea needs you. We need you. Join us. We are a group committed to protecting the Salish Sea by advancing a Rights of the Salish Sea [...]
This article by Sandra Cordon appeared in Landscape News on April 22, 2019. From New Zealand, where a major river has been given legal status, to Ecuador, where nature’s rights are enshrined in the constitution, to India and the U.S., the global movement to recognize Mother Nature’s rights is picking up speed – and raising [...]
