Posted by Shannon Biggs in Building Positive Alternatives, Community Rights, People Power, Not Corporate Power, World News & Events on 28th June, 2012 | 4 Comments
The United Nations Rio + 20 Summit on Sustainable Development was a dismal, if predictable, failure. Global Exchange’s Community Rights Director Shannon Biggs reports on the news from Rio—the not so bad, the bad, and the ugly and points to some inspiring youth voices that could be heard above the din.
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Posted by Kylie Nealis in Community Rights on 11th April, 2012 | No Comments
The sacred fire was lit as over 100 primarily Indigenous peoples gathered—and hundreds more participated online—for the RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH: International Indigenous Conference APRIL 4 – 6, 2012 at Haskell Indian Nations University. “This is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st Century. How do we re-orientate the dominant industrialized societies so that they pursue human well-being in a manner that contributes to the health of our Mother Earth instead of undermining it? In other words – how do we live in harmony with Nature?”
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Posted by Kylie Nealis in Community Rights, People Power, Not Corporate Power on 21st March, 2012 | No Comments
The international peasants and farmers organization, La Via Campesina, ends their global Call to Action for the upcoming June 16-18 Rio +20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) with ‘GLOBALIZE THE STRUGGLE!! GLOBALIZE HOPE!!!’
The stakes are high in Rio. As Via Campesina points out, “Twenty years later, governments should have reconvened to review their commitments and progress, but in reality the issue to debate will be the “green economy” led development, propagating the same capitalist model that caused climate chaos and other deep social and environmental crises.”
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Posted by Zarah Patriana in Community Rights, Featured, World News & Events on 8th December, 2011 | No Comments
After 9 days of negotiations there is no doubt that we saw this movie before. It is the third remake of Copenhagen and Cancun. Same actors. Same script. The documents are produced outside the formal negotiating scenario . In private meetings, dinners which the 193 member states do not attend. The result of these meetings is known only on the last day.
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Posted by Shannon Biggs in Community Rights, Global Exchange News & Events on 15th August, 2011 | 3 Comments
YOU can go to the Amazon! Apply now for Founders Tour to Ecuador Global Exchange & Green Festival Co-founder Kevin Danaher & Rights of Nature expert Shannon Biggs. Here’s more about the trip from Shannon, who went on a similar trip 2 years ago, and will be going on this one too.
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Posted by Shannon Biggs in Community Rights, Featured, Global Exchange News & Events, World News & Events on 19th April, 2011 | No Comments
This week, at the apex of the anniversary of the Gulf oil disaster and Earth Day, a bold question is being asked at the United Nations for the very first time: What if nature had rights?
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Posted by Kylie Nealis in Community Rights on 15th April, 2011 | No Comments
As this year’s Earth Day approaches, can we envisage for ourselves a future based not on exploiting nature as property but upon recognizing the nature has inherent rights to exist, thrive, and evolve? A growing number of people involved in the Rights of Nature movement are saying, “yes, we can – and we must. “
Global Exchange is excited to announce the release of a new book next week, Rights of Nature: Making a Case for the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth, co-developed by Global Exchange, the Council of Canadians, and Fundacion Pachamama.
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Posted by Kylie Nealis in Community Rights on 31st March, 2011 | 8 Comments
Global Exchange is pleased to announce the upcoming release on April 21st of a new book that explores these questions and more. Co-developed by Global Exchange, Council of Canadians and Fundacion Pachamama, the book titled Rights of Nature: Making a Case for the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth, begins to reveal the path of a movement that is driving the cultural and legal shift that is necessary to transform our human relationship with nature away from being property-based and towards a rights-based model of balance.
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Posted by Admin in Uncategorized on 22nd December, 2010 | 2 Comments
As one of the many interns who has passed through the doors of Global Exchange, I experienced more than I expected while working there.
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Posted by Shannon Biggs in Uncategorized on 11th December, 2010 | 1 Comment
Months before civil society boarded planes or hopped on busses and bikes destined for Cancun (yes, we met up with a small contingent of cyclists arriving from West Virginia) — it was clear that we weren’t really very welcome.
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