Big Victory in Ecuador for the Rights of Nature!
2021 Our year in review
Weekly Silent Vigil for BIPOC We are proud of our accomplishments this year. As we reflect on 2021, much gratitude arises for the many people who have supported us in our endeavors. We: Wrote a Community Bill of Rights with Buckingham neighbors impacted by a potential...
PRESS RELEASE: There’s gold in Virginia, but it won’t make you rich.
. Haile, South Carolina industrial gold mine For Immediate Release Contact: Chad Oba, chado108@icloud.com, 434-806-6332Heidi Dhivya Berthoud, heidi@vacommunityrights.org,...
PRESS RELEASE: Ecuador’s Constitutional Court Enforces Constitutional Rights of Nature to Safeguard Los Cedros Protected Forest
Photo by Andreas Kay (https://bit.ly/3uqwqGE) Contact: Constanza Prieto Figelist, Earth Law Center,+1 (202) 621-3877 cpfigelist@earthlaw.orgNatalia Greene, Alianza Global por los Derechos de la Naturaleza, +593 99 944 3724, nati.greene@gmail.comAlejandro...
Metallic Mining and Freedom from Toxic Trespass
There's gold in Virginia, but it won't make us rich! Virginia Community Rights Network (VACRN) has teamed up with the Friends of Buckingham (FoB) to jointly propose to the Buckingham County Board of Supervisors, passage into law a Community Bill of Rights called...
Community Bill of Rights Continues to Gain Support
Community Bill of Rights Launched in VA!
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...
