A Movement to Outlaw Ecocide is Gaining Momentum
Ecocide: Should Destruction of the Planet Be a Crime? To prosecute and imprison political leaders and corporate executives would require a parsing of legal boundaries and a recalibration of criminal accountability. At many moments in history, humanity’s propensity for...
Rights of Nature updates
The Rights of Nature movement is sweeping the globe, and none too soon. Here are but a few of the stories to inspire... In the Latest Rights of Nature Case, a Tribe Is Suing Seattle on Behalf of Salmon in the Skagit River Salmon—the fish—are suing the City of Seattle...
New Book: Death by Democracy
Death By Democracy - Protecting Water and Life: Frontline Stories from Ohioans Fighting Corporate and State Power is a collection of stories told by grassroots activists across the state. Each story details the efforts of community-led ballot initiatives that...
Film “Invisible Hand” and post premiere discussion
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 between capitalism and democracy where the fight for our survival is at stake....
Letter to the editor: Myths about gold mining
Haile gold mine, SC David Waters: "When foreign corporations promise that industrial gold mining will bring Buckingham County jobs... don't fall for it! The truth? Many of those positions require specialized workers from elsewhere." Read the full article online,...
VACRN News, Jan. 2022: Local Problems Have Global Ramifications
NCRN 2021: End of the Year Newsletter
Dear Friends,As 2021 comes to a close, we pause to reflect on the challenges as well as the connections that we experienced this year. As a network made up of individuals, groups and state affiliates, our efforts, though directed towards different issues using...
The Red Deal: From the local to the global, a movement to save us all
The Red Deal is a powerful guide to indigenous liberation and the fight to save the planet. The Red Deal is a political program for the liberation that emerges from the oldest class struggle in the Americas-the fight by Native people to win sovereignty,...
Rediscovering Rachel Carson: The Oceans, the Climate Crisis, and the “Poet of the Sea”
November 22, 2021—Before her landmark book Silent Spring catalyzed the modern environmental movement, Rachel Carson was internationally celebrated as a “poet of the sea” for a trilogy of prescient books about the world’s oceans—their beauty, fragility, and immense...
Pachamama, Rights of Nature, focus of Scene on Radio podcast episode of Season 5: The Repair
"In several countries around the world, including Ecuador, New Zealand, and the U.S., some people are trying to protect the planet using a legal concept called “rights of nature”—infusing the law with Indigenous understandings of Mother Earth. Season 5, Part...
