Australian Earth Laws Alliance Updates
Australian Wild Law Alliance (AWLA) announces that as of 22nd July they have changed to the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA). AELA’s new logo was created by designer Skeet Booth. The human fingerprint embedded in the leaf is a lovely...
First County in U.S. Bans Oil and Gas Extraction
In a press release by Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Thomas Linzey, Esq. announces that Mora County, NM has become the first county in the US to ban oil and gas extraction via an “ordinance that calls for a State Constitutional...
A New Civil Rights Movement: Liberating Our Communities from Corporate Control
Today’s global Rights of Nature and Rights of Communities over Corporate “Personhood” movement started over a decade ago in Pennsylvania’s heartland. Thomas Linzey of Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF.org) has been working in the forefront with these communities. Read...
Democracy Denied in Small Town, USA
by: Mt. Shasta Community Rights Project, Molly Brown from ReadtheDirt.org Editor’s Note: Read the story of the inner workings of Mt. Shasta, California’s effort to pass a Community Water Rights and Self-Government Ordinance. Hear how the citizens of this small town were,...
Rights of Nature dialogue in Nepal with CELDF
Since 2009, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, head of the Global Alliance’s Legislative Assistance Working Group, has been in discussions with the Center for Economic and Social Development (CESOD) in Nepal, a civil society organization whose work has increasingly...
Global Alliance promoting Natural Law
Earth Island Journal’s Jason Mark, explores the emergence of the Rights of Nature movement and its growing impact in this month’s Journal article: Natural Law – From Rural Pennsylvania to South America, a Global Alliance is Promoting the Idea that...
Community Rights in the focus
Shannon Biggs (Global Exchange) and Thomas Linzey (CELDF) were invited on NPR’s ‘Your Call’ with Rose Aguilar to discuss community and nature’s rights and how communities across the US are undertaking rights-based organizing to get what they want in the...
The Rights of Nature at Bioneers
Bioneers has scheduled 4 presentations on Rights for Nature for their 2011 Conference. The Rights of Nature: An Idea Whose Time Has Come Natalia Greene, The Global Alliance for Rights of Nature, Fundacion Pachamama, CEDENMA – Saturday Morning 9am –...
La Alianza Global para los Derechos de la Naturaleza lanza dos libros en San Francisco, CA California
El Comité Ejecutivo de la Alianza Global por los Derechos de la Naturaleza celebró su segundo encuentro, el 26 de abril 2011 en Green Gulch, San Francisco en el cual se discutieron las estrategias y la planificación de las actividades...
Pachamama Alliance Hosts Global Alliance for Rights of Nature
On Tuesday, April 26th, The Pachamama Alliance hosted a panel discussion celebrating the second meeting of the Global Alliance for Rights of Nature, of which Pachamama is a founding member. Featured on the panel were Natalia Greene, of Fundación Pachamama;...
