VACRN Newsletter #12: September, 2021
The Corporation: Capitalism’s most important institution
August 2021 was a corporate film fest, thanks to the Oregon and Ohio Community Rights Networks. ORCRN showed the original movie "The Corporation" and a week later, OHCRN showed "The New Corporation, The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel." Both are riveting, chocked full...
If the frogs should win
The fate of some of Ecuador's last remaining cloud forests and hundreds of livelihoods rests on the outcome of a trailblazing Rights of Nature case concerning two tiny amphibians. Read the full article at Ecologist - Informed by Nature, Jan 11, 2021 Other key issues...
Webinar with Will Falk: Protect Thacker Pass
On January 15th, 2021 Will Falk and Max Wilbert staked their ecological heart and soul on Protecting Thacker Pass, or Peehee mu’ Huh as the area is known to the Indigenous peoples. Members of the local Fort McDermitt tribe are currently petitioning the courts to stop...
VACRN Newsletter #11 August, 2021
My Turn: The case for local self-governance
LTE by Douglas Darrell: At some point in time in your community, you will be confronted with a corporate project, such as a landfill, gravel pit, high voltage power lines, fossil fuel pipeline, commercial water extraction, mountaintop removal wind turbines or sludge...
SPECIAL INVITE: “Indigenous Organizing” July 28th
We are in a pivotal moment: Respect existence or expect resistence