At the risk of expediting the die-off of most life on the planet, including most humans, judges continue to turn a blind eye toward the…
Guest Blog: Badges and Incidents of Slavery
The challenge: How to overcome the white dominance/Black subordination relationship. How to decolonize.
Tumbled by the surf: Figuring out which wave to ride next for recognizing rights
We must think about our history- the Revolutionaries were proposing an alternative to being a colony of England, abolitionists were fighting for an alternative to…
Wouldn’t You Say? – Materialism is Substance Abuse, Literally
Let’s be generous and call the COP–15 agreement a plan for conserving 1% of Earth’s biodiversity. That means that negotiators agreed to sacrifice 99% of…
Wouldn’t You Say? – What Do We Mean by “Community Rights?”
Lakota advocate and water protector Debra White Plume (Wioweya Najin Wina), upon being introduced to the history of municipal subjugation in the United States during…
Wouldn’t You Say? – What are the Rights of Nature?
The law locks up the man or woman, Who steals the goose from off the common, But leaves the greater villain loose, Who steals the…
Wouldn’t You Say? – Nature is What’s Real
You wouldn’t think, in a rational society, that anyone would have to be told this, but reality doesn’t care what anybody believes is true; it…
Wouldn’t You Say? – Municipal Maze
Refuse to be complacent. Refuse to be complicit. Refuse to be irrelevant.
Wouldn’t You Say? – Community Self-Government
Do you know what’s not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution? For one thing, government by the people.
Wouldn’t You Say? – Property
The Right to Property is Inalienable, Right? Some rights are defined as inalienable, meaning that they can’t be taken away from you. Heck, you can’t…
Wouldn’t You Say? – Personhood
The Right of Free Speech Includes the Right to Clean Air to Speak With Look, if corporate property can be called a legal person, and…
Building Our Children’s Trust Needs to Start With Reality
While we’re being told by scientific authority that decisive action to reduce carbon emissions is mandatory within the 2020’s, the legal theory underlying Juliana is…
It’s Not All Bad
Over the last 15 years, grassroots work that establishes rights for human and natural communities has expanded in ways that no one could have foreseen.…
Less is More: Confronting the American Nightmare of Stuff
The system has worked hard to create obedience in a number of ways and to cover up and misdirect the true impacts of what our…
Some things never change, but we better start!
"Claiming to fight for clean water because the human community depends on clean water to bring in more tourism or that we need to destroy…
Earth Emancipation Now!
Earth Emancipation Now! Synopsis: The American Empire was built on the model of European colonialism and the enclosure of the Commons. The Federalists, who crafted…
Guest Blog: The Journey of a Film
It’s an uphill battle against some of the most powerful lobbies on earth. The threats against our health posed by heedless profit-seeking are heavily empowered.
Guest Blog: Community Rights in Buffalo, NY
Systems change doesn’t hinge on electing the right candidate – it’s advanced most forcefully when organized communities engage in direct action.
Message from the NCRN
Dear friends,Tom Groover, an NCRN and COCRN Board member, along with his wife Karen recently lost everything in the Boulder County Colorado Marshall Fire that…
Donegal County Council votes unanimously to adopt Rights of Nature
In December, the Donegal County Council in Ireland voted unanimously to adopt the Rights of Nature as “an important statement of intention that imbeds the…
Lessons from Ecuador
What will it take to advance the Rights of Nature in the United States?
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