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The Rights of Nature movement launched internationally in 2006 and is growing fast. Driven primarily by tribes and citizen-led communities, more than three dozen cities, townships and counties across the U.S. have adopted such laws to create legally enforceable rights for ecosystems to exist, flourish, regenerate and evolve. Native American attorneys, Frank Bibeau and Samantha Skenandore, and legal movement leader Thomas Linzey report from the front lines how they are honing their strategies to protect natural systems for future generations. Featuring Frank Bibeau, an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, is an activist and tribal attorney who works extensively on Chippewa treaty and civil rights, sovereignty and water protection. Thomas Linzey, Senior Legal Counsel for the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER), an organization committed to advancing the legal rights of nature and environmental rights globally. Samantha Skenandore (Ho-Chunk/Oneida), Attorney/Of-Counsel at Quarles & Brady LLP, has vast knowledge and experience in working on matters involving on both federal Indian law and tribal law.  Resources ⁠Mari Margil and Thomas Linzey – Changing Everything: The Global Movement for the Rights of Nature⁠ ⁠The Rights of Nature Movement in Indian Country and Beyond: From Grassroots to Mainstream⁠ ⁠Bioneers Rights of Nature Deep Dive⁠ This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the ⁠radio and podcast homepage⁠ to learn more.

Send us a textDemocracy and environmental protection have two things in common: (1) they're both supposed to be enshrined in the laws of the United States and (2) they're both under severe attack right now. Asher speaks with Thomas Linzey of the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights to uncover how the source code of the U.S. Constitution and the body of environmental laws that follow it are actually designed to allow corporations to override the will of the people. After pinpointing the problem, Thomas explains what can be done, especially at the local level, to reach sustainable and just outcomes that provide wellbeing for people and ecosystems.Originally recorded on 4/2/25.Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.Sources/Links/Notes:Bio for Thomas LinzeyCenter for Democratic and Environmental RightsMatt Wuerker's cartoon: "The Closed-Door Constitutional Convention"Support the show

Most people support responsible environmental policies but may be unaware of how radical the leading edge of the movement has become as an increasing number of activists support granting personhood rights to nature. Is nature rights a subversive threat to human exceptionalism and our thriving or is it the next necessary step in society's moral growth and key to preventing a catastrophic environmental collapse as its adherents claim? Let's find out. Wesley's guest is one of the primary founders of the nature rights approach. Thomas Alan Linzey, serves as Senior Legal Counsel for the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights, an organization committed to globally advancing the legal rights of nature and environmental rights. He is the co-founder of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) and is widely recognized as the founder of the contemporary “community rights” and “rights of nature” movements. Linzey is a cum laude graduate of Widener Law School and a three-time recipient of the law school's public interest law award. He is a co-founder of the Daniel Pennock Democracy School – now taught in twenty-four states across the country which has graduated over 5,000 lawyers, activists, and municipal officials – which assists groups to create new community campaigns which elevate the rights of those communities over rights claimed by corporations. Linzey is the author or co-author of several books on community activism and civil disobedience. He assisted the Ecuadorian constitutional assembly in 2008 to adopt the world's first constitution recognizing the independently enforceable rights of ecosystems, and is a frequent lecturer at conferences across the country. The Center on Human Exceptionalism is most pleased Linzey agreed to join the podcast, during which he and Wesley have a discussion not an argument. Center for Environmental Rights Nature Rights with Thomas Linzey | YouTube Rights of Nature: An Interview with Thomas Linzey | Bioneers Debate Between Wesley J. Smith and Thomas Alan Linzey on the Nature Rights movement | Discovery Institute War on Humans | Wesley J. Smith The return of nature worship | Acton Institute

The Rights of Nature movement launched internationally in 2006 and is growing fast. Driven primarily by tribes and citizen-led communities, more than three dozen cities, townships and counties across the U.S. have adopted such laws to create legally enforceable rights for ecosystems to exist, flourish, regenerate and evolve. In this program, Native American attorneys, Frank Bibeau and Samantha Skenandore, and legal movement leader Thomas Linzey report from the front lines how they are honing their strategies to protect natural systems for future generations. Featuring Frank Bibeau, an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, is an activist and tribal attorney who works extensively on Chippewa treaty and civil rights, sovereignty and water protection. Thomas Linzey, Senior Legal Counsel for the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER), an organization committed to advancing the legal rights of nature and environmental rights globally. Samantha Skenandore (Ho-Chunk/Oneida), Attorney/Of-Counsel at Quarles & Brady LLP, has vast knowledge and experience in working on matters involving on both federal Indian law and tribal law.  Resources Mari Margil and Thomas Linzey – Changing Everything: The Global Movement for the Rights of Nature The Rights of Nature Movement in Indian Country and Beyond: From Grassroots to Mainstream Bioneers Rights of Nature Deep Dive This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Thomas Linzey, Senior Legal Counsel at the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights, has been at the forefront of ambitious campaigns to create novel legal doctrines for "community rights," "the rights of nature," and more recently, "self-owning land." The primary goal is to expand democratic self-determination, especially at the local level, and provide stronger legal protections for land, water, animals, and other elements of living ecosystems. More on the commons at Bollier.org. Downloadable PDF transcript: https://www.bollier.org/files/misc-file-upload/files/Thomas_Linzey_transcript_Episode_40.pdf

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, April 3rd, 2023. Later in the program, Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze hosted a conversation with Thomas Linzey, Senior Legal Counsel for the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights. More in today's feature report. That’s Liz Barnhart from Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard, a local food pantry that has grown …

The Rights of Nature movement launched internationally in 2006 and is growing fast. Driven primarily by tribes and citizen-led communities, more than three dozen cities, townships and counties across the U.S. have adopted such laws to create legally enforceable rights for ecosystems to exist, flourish, regenerate and evolve. In this program, Native American attorneys, Frank Bibeau and Samantha Skenandore, and legal movement leader Thomas Linzey report from the front lines how they are honing their strategies to protect natural systems for future generations. Featuring Frank Bibeau, an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, is an activist and tribal attorney who works extensively on Chippewa treaty and civil rights, sovereignty and water protection. Thomas Linzey, Senior Legal Counsel for the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER), an organization committed to advancing the legal rights of nature and environmental rights globally. Samantha Skenandore (Ho-Chunk/Oneida), Attorney/Of-Counsel at Quarles & Brady LLP, has vast knowledge and experience in working on matters involving on both federal Indian law and tribal law.  Resources Mari Margil and Thomas Linzey – Changing Everything: The Global Movement for the Rights of Nature The Rights of Nature Movement in Indian Country and Beyond: From Grassroots to Mainstream Bioneers Rights of Nature Deep Dive This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to find out how to hear the program on your local station and how to subscribe to the podcast.

Author and essayist Priya Basi, the co-founder of Authors for Peace, reflects on hospitality and the roles of host and guest beyond the act of feeding someone. Environmentalist Paul Greenberg examines his relationship with his father and fishing. Environment lawyer Thomas Linzey looks at the rights of water from the point of view of water itself. Journalist Lucy Jones reflects on how the return to nature aids both the body and mind. Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg sets the stage for a story of rebirth, rejuvenation, and regeneration in his documentary "Fantastic Fungi." 

Are you willing to travel now that a Trump appointed unqualified judge strikes down mask mandates on planes and public transportation? Geeky Science: How Covid causes micro-brain-bleeds (new study) that leads to dementia and "loss of executive function" (aka "ability to restrain bad behavior" Crazy Alert! - Tucker Carlson's ‘Testicle Tanning.' Also how DeSantis is transforming Florida's Education Department into the Ministry of Propaganda.Interview with Senior Legal Counsel for the Center for Democratic & Environmental Rights (CDER) Thomas Linzey : Can a lake in Florida be saved by giving it rights? Plus Tax Day study shows US billionaires now own $4.7 trillion.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

WFHB Correspondent Zyro Roze hosted a conversation with Thomas Linzey, Senior Legal Counsel for the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights. This interview was aired as a five-part series of Feature Reports as part of an ongoing collaboration between WFHB Local News and Eco Media Center of Monroe County. Roze and Linzey discuss the environmental …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, March 28th, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Zyro Roze speaks with educator, author and Rights of Nature attorney Thomas Linzey in Part 4 of an ongoing series on the local news. More in today's feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we …

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, March 24th, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Zyro Roze speaks with Thomas Linzey, senior legal counsel at the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights in Part Three of an ongoing series. More in the bottom half of tonight's program. Also coming up in the next …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Zyro Roze speaks with Thomas Linzey, senior legal counsel at the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights in Part Two of an ongoing series. More in the bottom half of tonight's program. Also coming up in the next …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, March 21st, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Zyro Roze speaks with Thomas Linzey, senior legal counsel at the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights in today's feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have some recent prison-related news and announcements from …

Matt discusses the work of the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights with Attorney Thomas Linzey. 

Matt Matern speaks with attorney Thomas Linzey, who discusses his shift from traditional environmental law to advocating for local governance and rights of nature. He challenges the preemption doctrine and emphasizes community participation and environmental rights for sustainable futures.

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This week, author and journalist Mark Arax chronicles the journey water takes in California, from the mountainous peaks and snow melts of the north, through the nut and fruit farms of the Central Valley, and up and over the mountain to the faucets and swimming pools of Southern California. Environmental attorney Thomas Linzey discusses his work defending the “rights of nature.” Science writer Lucy Jones makes the connection between nature and mental health. At the Santa Monica Farmer's Market, Dawn Birch reveals unprecedented steps she and her husband are taking to irrigate their property, and Chef Carlos Salgado is in search of peaches. 

Thom Hartmann examines the strategies for mitigating climate change and reviews some of the most significant scientific reports of 2020. Conversations with Ingrid Newkirk President of PETA, Bill Freese from the Center for Food Safety and Thomas Linzey, Senior Legal Counsel for the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights.

Thomas Linzey has worked with the first places in the world to establish legal rights of nature - from a small town in Pennsylvania to the national constitution of Ecuador. His organization, Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (www.centerforenvironmentalrights.org) works with grassroots, tribal, and NGO partners and governments across the globe to develop, implement, and enforce Rights of Nature laws. Following in the footsteps of the civil rights and women’s rights movements, it is time for our international legal system to recognize the Rights of Nature. This is paradigm shifting work. Listen, learn and be moved to action.(Recorded June 2020)

Why does “corporate personhood” consistently override the legal rights of citizens? And what about the rights of nature? Join innovative environmental attorneys Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil for breakthroughs on the ground of democracy.

Rights of Communities, Rights of Nature: a new conversation on law and ecology with Dr Peter Doran, QUB Law, and  Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, United States. Associate Director of CELDF Mari Margil and Executive Director of CELDF Thomas Linzey join Peter Doran in a wide-ranging discussion on an emerging new paradigm in environmental law, linking the rights of communities to the rights of nature. As the limits and systemic failures of environmental protection and governance become all too apparent  across the island of Ireland, this timely conversation examines the limits of conventional environmental law approaches, explores the role of communities in resisting the collusion of state and corporate authorities in the despoliation of our common environmental heritage, and the increasing acknowledgement of nature as a rights-bearing subject worthy of our deepest respect and cooperation.  The conversation also touches on new challenges for the legal profession and law schools in the context of systemic failures to equip communities and professionals with the means to resist ongoing ecosystem collapse. In an era where governmental institutions are unable to confront growing environmental crises, Linzey and Margil talk about a new people's movement emerging in the United States and beyond, to forge a new system of law that enables people to protect their communities and nature by rejecting certain harmful corporate projects. The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), a U.S.-based community organizing organization and law firm, is pioneering this movement toward “community rights” and the “rights of nature.” Across the U.S. and around the globe, CELDF is working with communities and national governments to recognize the rights of ecosystems in law, and to stop fracking, factory farms, and other threats. CELDF's senior legal counsel and co-founder Thomas Linzey, and associate director Mari Margil, will share stories from the frontlines: why U.S. municipal communities began to revolt against a system of law that elevates corporate “rights” and centralized governmental control over the rights of people and nature; how community rights and rights of nature laws were first enacted by U.S. communities; how Ecuador became the first country in the world to enshrine the rights of nature in its constitution; and how in countries from India to Colombia, from Nepal and Mexico, there is a growing movement to protect not only the human right to a healthy environment, but the rights of the environment itself. Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund: https://celdf.org/

A new conversation on law and ecology with Dr Peter Doran, QUB Law, and Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, United States.

Why does “corporate personhood” consistently override the legal rights of citizens? And what about the rights of nature? Join innovative environmental attorneys Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil for breakthroughs on the ground of democracy.

Thomas Linzey is an attorney and the Executive Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) – a nonprofit law firm that has provided free legal services to over five hundred local governments and nonprofit organizations since 1995. He is a cum laude graduate of Widener Law School and a three-time recipient of the law school's public interest law award. He has been a finalist for the Ford Foundation's Leadership for a Changing World Award, and is a recipient of the Pennsylvania Farmers Union's Golden Triangle Legislative Award. He is a co-founder of the Daniel Pennock Democracy School – now taught in twenty-four states across the country which has graduated over 5,000 lawyers, activists, and municipal officials – which assists groups to create new community campaigns which elevate the rights of those communities over rights claimed by corporations. Linzey is the author of Be The Change: How to Get What You Want in Your Community, the author of On Community Civil Disobedience in the Name of Sustainability, co-author of We the People: Stories from the Community Rights Movement in the United States, was featured in Leonardo DiCaprio and Tree Media's film 11th Hour and We the People 2.0, assisted the Ecuadorian constitutional assembly in 2008 to adopt the world's first constitution recognizing the independently enforceable rights of ecosystems. https://celdf.org

On Love and Revolution Radio, we seek out real people and real stories about the heart of change. This week, we speak with Sandy Lyon of Northern Wisconsin about thirty years of nonviolent organizing that has asserted treaty rights, stopped mines, and driven out a US naval base. We'll be asking about the role of love, community, and the community radio station in creating a culture of creative, bold change. To learn more and connect: www.honorearth.org Books and Resources Mentioned: "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn Community Rights and Thomas Linzey with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) http://celdf.org/ Learn more about the Northern Wisconsin Treaty Rights Struggles: https://www.opendemocracy.net/tom-hhastings/anishinabe-and-unsung-nonviolent-victory-in-late-twentieth-century-wisconsin Know Your Nonviolent History: The Bread and Roses Strike of 1912 Learn more at: http://www.riverasun.com/bread-and-roses-strike-begins-jan-11-12-1912/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org "Turn up your heart" by Jenny Bird www.jennybird.com About your co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/ Rivera Sun is a novelist, and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

Why does “corporate personhood” consistently override the legal rights of citizens? And what about the rights of nature? Join innovative environmental attorneys Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil for breakthroughs on the ground of democracy.

Why does “corporate personhood” consistently override the legal rights of citizens? And what about the rights of nature? Join innovative environmental attorneys Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil for breakthroughs on the ground of democracy.

Corporations have the same rights as people. But do our communities and natural ecosystems have any rights? How about our bodies, cells and genetic material? Thomas Linzey and Katherine Davies argue that in order to defend our bodies and our environment, they must be given rights under the law.

Corporations have the same rights as people. But do our communities and natural ecosystems have any rights? How about our bodies, cells and genetic material? Thomas Linzey and Katherine Davies argue that in order to defend our bodies and our environment, they must be given rights under the law.

Communities are drafting local bills of rights that give the environment legal rights. Terra Verde explores this radical new approach with Thomas Linzey from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. And yes, a river can now sue a corporation! The post The river as plaintiff – November 25, 2011 appeared first on KPFA.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have long been held as the inalienable rights of the American people. Then why is it that corporate personhood consistently overrides the legal rights of citizens? And what about the rights of nature?Do rivers, mountains, whales or ecosystems - have inalienable rights that guarantee their interests? Join innovative environmental attorneys Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil for breakthroughs on the ground that are redefining democracy. In the 21st century, is it time to move from a Declaration of Independence to a Declaration of Interdependence?

--{ Logan's Run -- Termination's Fun: "It's TV Reality in the Land of the Dead, No Interest in Warnings or What's been Said, No Interest in Rulers Who Call Each Shot, By the Time You've Spoken They've Already Forgot, They Love Their Trivia and Little Routine, The Latest from Hollywood They've All Seen, Avoiding the Negative as Trained to do, Going for Flu Shots, Lining in Queue, They'll Line Up for Extinction if it's a Party Affair And Cheer for Each One Turned to Puff in the Air" © Alan Watt }-- New Priesthood (Experts) of Science and Greening - Reality Creation, Television Images, "Most-Trusted" Newscasters - New Feudal Society for New Age - Malthus - Symbiosis of Elite Masters and Masses of Slaves - The Dead - Survival Instincts, Wild vs. Domesticated Animals - Orwell's "1984", Mindset of Bureaucrat, Group Consensus. Managerial Class, Governance - World Wars to Bring World to Their Knees. Aerial Spraying, Weather Manipulation - Shock and Awe since 2001, Continual Crisis, Terrorism, Everyone Suspect - "Change is Good" - Humiliation Techniques - CCTV Cameras in Homes - Bankers' Crash and Reward - Bacterial-Viral Warfare, Inoculation Program - Vaccination for "Novel" H1N1 Flu - Govt. Mandates and Protection for Big Pharma - Paralysis and Deaths from Cervical Cancer Vaccine - Vaccines, Acceptable Risk ("Write-offs") - Parents Not Buying Propaganda on Flu - Mild or Non-Existent Flu. Targeting Food, Water and Infrastructure in Warfare - Attack on Farmers, Agri-Business Takeover - Worldwide Food Rationing for "Inevitable" Shortages - Carbon Taxes for Farmers (and Everyone Else) - Prohibition on Meat Eating - More Sophisticated Form of Slavery - Property Seizure (Theft) - Rights for Animals, Not People - EU Carbon Trading (Invisible Nothing) Scheme - Soviet Union - Control of Agriculture by Corporate Farms and Packers. (Articles: ["Most parents won't have kids get H1N1 flu shots, study finds" by Melissa Healy (latimes.com) - Sept. 25, 2009.] ["Paralysed cancer drug girl to be put on at-risk register 'to shut her up' " by Jan Disley (dailymail.co.uk) - Sept. 20, 2009.] ["Schoolgirl, 14, dies after being given cervical cancer jab" by Daniel Martin (dailymail.co.uk) - Sept. 29, 2009.] ["Parents 'not buying' H1N1 panic message" by Mark Baard (timenauts.com) - Sept. 25, 2009.] ["Value of climate credits, foreign ownership concern U.S. farmers" by Philip Brasher (desmoinesregister.com) - Sept. 27, 2009.] ["E.U. Alone and Lonely on Carbon" by James Kanter (nytimes.com) - Sept. 27, 2009.] ["Small Farm Extermination" by Thomas Linzey (celdf.org).]) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Sept. 28, 2009 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)