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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...
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...
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...
Are Regulatory Agencies a Good Thing? by Jane Anne Morris A third of your friends are locked down in an old growth grove or at a corporate headquarters, with law enforcement officers rubbing pepper spray in their eyes. Another third are preparing testimony so you can...
Rights of Nature (recognition that all life has equal right to exist, thrive and evolve) is the fastest-growing legal and ethical movement in the world. Our legal system shapes our worldview. Advancing social and environmental justice requires us to take a closer look...
Wild Virginia interviewed the Virginia Community Rights Network (VACRN) about their work in elevating the rights of Nature and Communities who value nature as a whole. VACRN represents a new paradigm in how to fight for the environment, as part of the environment....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9RtlpZFly8&feature=youtu.be&t=6070 From Executive Producer Mark Ruffalo comes the world’s first documentary film on the Rights of Nature Movement, a “plot-twisting, eye-opening” story about the current global battle...
Ben Price reveals that our constitution and legal system were intentionally designed to give more rights to the wealthy propertied class than the rest of us and exposes how this hamstrings our ability to effectively address a host of pressing social and environmental...
Join Mark Ruffalo and directors Joshua Pribanic and Melissa Troutman for the virtual world premiere of INVISIBLE HAND on September 4th, 2020 at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. They will be joined by cast to take questions or comments from the public. Visit...
Citizen Voices Radio Show with host Jay Tubb airs Sundays from 2 to 5 pm EST on WRWK 93.9 FM, bringing the voices of the grassroots uprising, the frontline fight to protect our water, and those striving for true climate justice to the microphone of the masses. WRWK...