First Rights of Nature Symposium: Driving Rights of Nature into Law
Opportunities, Risks, and Obstacles Friday October 27, 2017 The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), with its International Center for the Rights of Nature, is partnering with Tulane Law School to host the Rights of Nature Symposium: Driving Rights of...
Colombia Constitutional Court Finds Atrato River Possesses Rights
Press Release: The Court Finds the Atrato Possesses Rights to “Protection, Conservation, Maintenance, and Restoration” Rights of Nature Movement Gaining Ground as Court Declares Need to Move Away from Legal Systems in Which Humans are the “Dominator of Nature” “(I)t...
WE ARE ALL RELATED: Working together to fight fossil fuels
Pennie Opal Plant, LUSH Blog, May 2016 Author Pennie Opal Plant is of Yaqui, Mexican, English, Choctaw, Cherokee and European ancestry. She’s been an activist for over 30 years on anti-nuclear, environmental and indigenous rights, and has been a lecturer...
WE ARE ALL RELATED: Working together to fight fossil fuels
Pennie Opal Plant, LUSH Blog, May 2016 Author Pennie Opal Plant is of Yaqui, Mexican, English, Choctaw, Cherokee and European ancestry. She’s been an activist for over 30 years on anti-nuclear, environmental and indigenous rights, and has been a lecturer...
Earth Law Updates – May 11, 2016
From Tom Brenan, Gaia Foundation Here’s the latest Earth law update: The fifteenth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is currently taking place in New York, from 9th to 20th In its ‘Proud to be Indigenous’...
Tribunal Considers Rights of Nature in Imperiled San Francisco Bay-Delta
Thank you Dan Bacher and Daily Kos, Monday May 02, 2016, 8:48 AM PDT, for this article. Many people have opined about Governor Jerry Brown’s environmentally devastating Delta Tunnels Plan, but nobody, including the Brown and Obama administrations promoting the project, have asked the...
Tribunal Considers Rights of Nature in Imperiled San Francisco Bay-Delta
Thank you Dan Bacher and Daily Kos, Monday May 02, 2016, 8:48 AM PDT, for this article. Many people have opined about Governor Jerry Brown’s environmentally devastating Delta Tunnels Plan, but nobody, including the Brown and Obama administrations promoting the project, have asked the...
Earth law update – March 24, 2016
From Tom Brenan, Gaia Foundation Here are some recent Earth law developments: The Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA) has issued a call for papers in preparation for its conference on 20th and 21st October 2016, ‘The future of Australian environmental...
What would the Delta say? Putting California’s Twin Tunnels on Trial
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 22, 2016 Contact: Shannon Biggs, Movement Rights (415) 841-2998 shannon@movementrights.org Linda Sheehan, Earth Law Center (510) 219-7730 lsheehan@earthlaw.org Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta(209) 479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org BAY-DELTA TRIBUNAL PUTS STATE & NATIONAL LEGAL SYSTEM ON TRIAL California’s Proposed...
Nature Puts Chevron Refinery and Legal System on “Trial”
“People’s Tribunal” in Oakland Seeks to Give Nature a Voice in Law Oakland, CA — On Sunday October 5, human, indigenous and nature’s rights groups will hold a “Bay Area Rights of Nature Alliance Ethics Tribunal,” examining the violations...
