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Podcast: PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF NATURE: A SHIFT IN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM
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....
BREAKING: Court Breathes New Life into Lake Erie Bill of Rights Legal Fight
Imperiled Lake Erie must be protected. Lake Erie Bill of Rights lives to fight another day, but still faces obstacles FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOctober 2, 2020 TOLEDO, OH: Yesterday, an Ohio court of appeals reversed a previous trial court order, ruling residents suing to...
Film “Invisible Hand” post premiere discussion
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...
Book Review: How Wealth Rules the World
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...
Actor Mark Ruffalo Joins INVISIBLE HAND to Release World’s First Documentary on the Rights of Nature Movement
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...
Letter: We the people must stand united
Thank you for Deputy’s Facebook post questioned by Alexa Massey. This topic reflects the inequality that the Poor People’s Campaign addresses when saying ‘Fight poverty, not the poor’. Dr. Rev. Willliam Barber II alerts us to the fact that the United States contains...
Cville article on ACP defeat, VACRN response
In response to a well written article in the Cville Weekly, Heidi Dhivya Berthoud wrote a letter to the editor, published in the August 12-18 edition. No link was available, thus the text is copied here: Erika Howsare wrote a great article [“Hallelujah, What’s...
VACRN, Susie Beiersdorfer of NCRN & Ben Price of CELDF interviews with host Jay Tubb on WRWK August 30, 2020
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...
Change History: Dismantle the systems that validate oppression and racism
Eugene Weekly News: Boop Troop RisesHow a DJ with an iPhone became the documentarian of a movement White people in America are clearly steeped in a very real moment. We are being urged to listen, reckon, reflect and act. We are being asked, in so many ways, to open...
Virginia Community Rights Network Launched
Mindy Zlotnick Letter to the Farmville Herald Editor: "The fight against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) taught us that when people work together, we can win." Read more at the Farmville Herald, published Wednesday July 22, 2020 To view a scanned copy of the article...