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, Featured, People Power, Not Corporate Power on 18th June, 2012 | No Comments
Community Rights Program Director, Shannon Biggs, is on the ground in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil this week to launch Global Exchange’s new report, “Rights of Nature: Planting the Seeds of Change.” The report explores how recognizing the Rights of Nature provides an alternative cultural and legal framework to the official corporate-led ‘Green (or Greed) Economy’ agenda being put forward by the UN.
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Posted by Tex Dworkin in Community Rights, People Power, Not Corporate Power, World News & Events on 13th June, 2012 | No Comments
World leaders are gathering in Brazil for the Rio Earth Summit next week. Global Exchange will be there, but beforehand, we’re taking part in a global online action to demand an end to fossil fuel subsidies. You can too!
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Posted by Shannon Biggs in Community Rights on 7th June, 2012 | 12 Comments
For many activists currently packing their bags for Rio, the goal is to protest the so-called “Green Economy”, the name given to the primary agenda for the Rio + 20 negotiations. Nicknamed the “Greed Economy” by many, the theory says we can only “save” nature by putting a price tag on what nature “does” for us. But we’re not showing up just to stand up for what we’re against, but to articulate what we’re for. Rights of Nature is a movement capable of actually changing culture and law to institute new economies based on community values and Earth rights. Check out our new report just in time for Rio + 20.
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Posted by Shannon Biggs in Community Rights, World News & Events on 9th June, 2011 | No Comments
“It is time for humankind to humbly accept that we have arrived at the precipice of reckless living, exploitation and destruction of Mother Earth.”
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