This article by Valerie Vande Panne of the Independent Media Institute appeared in EcoWatch on May 16, 2019. In February, the voters of Toledo, Ohio, passed a ballot initiative that gives Lake Erie and those who rely on the lake's ecosystem a bill of rights. The idea is to protect and preserve the ecosystem so that [...]
This article by Mike Ferner appeared on Counter Punch on May 15th, 2019. A rare, hybrid environmental campaign is underway to save a great lake – in fact, a Great Lake – Erie. That grand body of water, declared dead in the late 1960s experienced a textbook turnaround by the mid-80s, but is once again [...]
But it’s not for the reasons you would hope A press release by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund published on May 9th, 2019. COLUMBUS, OH: Today, the Ohio House of Representatives adopted its 2020-2021 budget with provisions that prohibit anyone, including local governments, from enforcing recognized legal rights for ecosystems. The political maneuver is [...]
Denies People their Right to Defend Local Law Recognizing Rights of Lake Erie A press release posted by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund on May 8th, 2019. Toledo, OH: Yesterday, Toledoans for Safe Water (TSW) and the Lake Erie Ecosystem were denied their motion to intervene in the lawsuit brought by Drewes Farm Partnership of Wood County [...]
Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered at Grand Central Station in solidarity with Indigenous and non-Indigenous allies protesting against the Dakota Access Pipeline on November 1, 2016.
This article by David Levine was published on DC Media Group on May 6, 2019. The UN’s alarming report on declining biodiversity and accelerating extinction rates is making headlines and generating clicks and shares on social media. Based on “overwhelming evidence” from a “wide range of different fields of knowledge,” the report paints an “ominous picture,” says [...]
This article appeared on ANI: South Asia's Multimedia News Agency on April 27th, 2019. Quito [Ecuador], Apr 27 (ANI): The native Waorani community on Friday (local time) fended off major degradation of their lands at the hands of oil companies be defeating three government bodies in court, for conducting a faulty consultation process with the [...]
The Whanganui River in New Zealand is a legal person. A nearby forest is too. Soon, the government will grant a mountain legal personhood as well. Here's how it happened, and what it may mean. This article by Kennedy Warne appeared in the April, 2019 edition of National Geographic. The photographs were taken by Mathias [...]
This article by Tom Henry appeared in The Toledo Blade on April 22nd, 2019. There is also a five minute video of Markie Miller of the Toledoans for Safe Water addressing the United Nation embedded in the article. She’s still numb and was definitely humbled by the experience of speaking before the United Nations. She’s [...]
Derrick Jensen interviews Thomas Linzey for the seventh time on Resistance Radio. This interview happened on April 21st, 2019. In this interview they talk about the Lake Erie Bill of Rights that was recently passed in Toledo, Ohio; the Rights of Nature, and other topics concerning Community Rights. This 51 minute interview can be listened [...]
