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What if Nature had legal rights, like humans and corporations? The #rightsofnature is a legal & social revolution to change how the law treats Nature.

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We're all waterbodies, my friend 💧💙 Come join us today for the rights of our mother Rivers, Oceans, Lakes..
Can a river have rights?
Can nature have a voice of its own?
And who speaks for water when it is under threat?

On October 13, we bring theatre to the streets of Berlin!

With WATERBODIES, Yemanjá, the goddess of the waters, encounters the Plastic Goddess, right by the Spree.

A poetic and political performance about water, environmental destruction, and the Rights of Nature.

We are joining the European launch of the Citizens’ Initiative for the Rights of Nature while also celebrating the Day of Theatre of the Oppressed on October 15.

📅 Tuesday, October 13, 2026
📍 7:00 PM – Oberbaumbrücke, corner of Warschauer Straße

📍8:30 PM – Café Tante Emma, Köpenicker Straße 1: After the performance, a conversation about the Rights of Nature, featuring Eduardo Salazar and other guests.

(Other photos are memories of the firts and the last performance we had in at @spore.initiative and @uferstudios_tanz_berlin .

At Spore we had the honour of Zica Pires' presence @zkpires , from Quilombo Santa Rosa dos Pretos MA. Artist, Pedagog and creator of collectiv Agentes Agroflorestais Quilombolas (AAQ)

@kuringa_berlin
@barbara.kuringa
@tillbaumann_berlin
@rightsfornature_eu @rechtedernatur_rdn
@kativagloria
@noramhaakh
@raizcarlos_
@jaodardoalbertini
@negrauri

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Black Creek has long been known as the worst polluted watershed in the GTA. It's banks have been replaced with cement and most feeder streams are buried and used for sewers. This walk begins in the worst flooded area in the GTA.

Join Anishinaabe Grandmother Waterkeeper Vivian Recollet on Sunday, September 20th at 11:00 AM for a powerful Water Walk along Black Creek, This is a critical moment to witness the impact and stand for change. Rockcliffe-Smythe in York South Weston deserves flooding protection that also respects the environment. Join us for this beautiful walk smythepark.ca

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Apparently, trees have rights!

A small town in Quebec has recognized trees as living beings with rights to life, growth, integrity and regeneration.

Humans are calling it groundbreaking.
The forest is calling it about time.

Personally, I’m reviewing several years of evidence.

The stumps have been remarkably cooperative witnesses.
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#NatureHumour #forestconservation #protectourforests #protectwhatyoulove #marmotmonday

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III. BÖLÜM: ARHAVİNİN 💲ESİ💲TAKİPÇİLERİNE VE #KAMUOYU’NA ÇAĞRI (MANIFESTO)

Ey çakma medya arhavinin💲e💲i takipçile💱i!

Bebeleri çocukları yataklarından sıçrayıp ağlatan nineleri dedeleri korkup duaya durduran kuşları susturan göçmen kuşların balıkların rotasını şaşırtan inekleri sütten tavukları yumurtadan kestiren evleri dağları zangır zangır titreten toprak kayması heyelan riskini arttıran bölgesel hava durumun değiştiren iki gündür yapılan o ev hizası #Arhavi uçak şovlarının videosunu övünerek kibir ile paylaşıp arka plan müziğine "saldır Türkiyem" diye bir müzik seçiyorsun !!!

Bu #yol şeref yoludur, zafer yoludur. Haydi saldır Türkiyem diyenlerin kibrine karşı; biz dağ'ın, #yayla'nın deremizin, #toba'ların ayı'nın kurumdarısı'nıni ğaço'nun, atmaca'nın karxalamtaxu'nun ateşböceği'nin ve mazlum halkın sesiyiz.

Bizim kültür ve sanat anlayışımız; militarist uçak'ın gürültüsüyle bebek'leri ağlatmak tavuk'u yumurta'dan inek'i süt'ten kesmek değil, tulum'un ve kemençe'nin kardeşlik'i ile, horon'un coşkusuyla YaşamıÜretmek'tir.

Dün (20 Ağustos) saat 15:00’te tekrarlanan bu akıldışı gösteriler devam ettiği sürece; ileride yaşanabilecek en ufak bir sel, heyelan veya afet durumunda tüm sorumluluk bu şovlara izin verenlerindir.
Bu metin; 19 ağustos (öğle ve ikindi ezanları öncesi) ve 20 ağustos (saat 15:00) ısrarlı ihlallerin karşısında, geleceğe bırakılan tarihi bir suç duyurusu, bir SosyalEkolojikDirenç belgesi ve kadim bir vakadır.

Kesin bu şamatayı! Doğamızdan, çocuklarımızdan, dilimizden, dağımızdan ve yaşam alanlarımızdan elinizi çekin!

Kayda geçsin !...

Soner Oruç

Halkın Biyoloğu
Etnobiyolog

⁉️Bu metin dün yazdığım dilekçemin kapanış cümleleridir. Dilekçemin bilimsel hukuki ve vicdani temelli açıklamaların olduğu 5'te 4'lük kısmı hikayemizde...

@arhavibld @tcarhavi @artvinvaliligi @unitednationsturkey @unitednations @humanrightswatch @ihdgenelmerkez @humanrightscouncil @gundemartvin @tbmmresmi @terralingua.langscape @adalet_bakanlik @saglikbakanligi
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A beautiful, uplifting day @the__gathering_ with so many other campaigns and like minded people who care about the environment around us. A huge thank you to Mary McGuigan and the whole team who organised today. A huge amount of energy and effort to plan a day on that scale. Today was very much needed after weeks of the public inquiry to reset, regroup and connect with so many interested individuals following the campaign. Our reel captures some of the energy and highlights of the day. To the next one. #sperrinmountains #dontmineus

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Something big has just happened - and it carries nationwide, if not global, implications.

A UK council has officially acknowledged: nature has rights.

While other councils have explored river rights in different forms, Maidstone Borough Council (MBC) has become the first to formally adopt a Rights of Nature framework. A framework that recognises rivers, trees, soils, and wildlife as holding intrinsic value, and the right to exist, thrive, and be considered in decision-making alongside people and the economy. A framework that honours Indigenous worldviews, and the understanding that we are not separate from the living world; we hold a shared responsibility.

The key difference is this is not symbolic. It is being embedded in policy and actively shaping planning decisions, biodiversity strategy, and climate action. Nature is beginning to be represented.

And this is where Friends of the River Medway come in. This shift emerged through a wide, evolving landscape - and our pilgrimage was a part of it.

During that journey, we held a gathering that brought councillors together from across the catchment for the first time. Guided by @tristram_stuart and shaped by the presence of the river, it created space for a rare kind of listening: across institutions, communities, and the more-than-human world.

MBC had previously considered aspects of this approach before, but it had not progressed. The conference helped renew conversations and re-energise the idea, contributing to the conditions in which this framework could grow and be born.

Thank you to the Indigenous peoples across the world for pioneering this approach, to everyone at @maidstonebc and @paulpowesland for bringing this framework into being, and for all those taking a significant step in making the Rights of Nature a reality.

We have no doubt: pilgrimages hold immense power. Not just for inner change, but for long-term cultural and ecological shifts. And the time is now.

Join us on our next River Medway Pilgrimage, 17-27 July, and be part of what unfolds when people - and the river - meet in common unity.

Learn more:
www.formedway.org

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🌱 Join us on 5 May @booksupstairs where I’ll be reading alongside brilliant collaborators and offering some thoughts on river rights, ancient river ceremony, and the ways in which poetry can be a way of writing with a body of water.

𓃴 Under Irish Brehon Law, a new king’s inauguration feast included a ritual marriage to the divine life-giving force of the land. This ‘Bainis Rí’, a sacred wedding and a contract, was on my mind as I began to explore what place rivers might have in a reimagined version of Bunreacht na hÉireann (The Irish Constitution).

🛶 Robert Macfarlane speaks about writing with a river as opposed to writing ‘𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵’, and for this new poetry sequence titled ‘River, Sister’, I turned to Abhainn Thulacha Beigile in Donegal. Flowing out of Lough Altan (under Errigal) for an auspicious 9 miles before spilling into the sea at Baile an Easa, this river is one of the first rivers to run through my life. The ‘tulach’ of her name is a low hill or mound once used for inauguration ceremonies, and local stone ruins dating to c. 3000 BC suggest that this river was associated with worship of the sun-god Lugh Lámhfhada. Even the river’s English name, 'The Bawaan’, carries the beat of a ceremonial drum.

🦋 In 2021 @donegalcountycouncil was the first Republic of Ireland local authority to adopt a motion embracing an all-island environmental doctrine known as Rights of Nature. Since 2006, the Rights of Nature have been enshrined in Ecuador, and also enacted within laws in Bolivia, Uganda, Panama, Canada & elsewhere. ‘River, Sister’ draws inspiration from the Whanganui River in New Zealand, which was given legal rights in 2017, making it the world’s second natural resource to be given a legal identity, with the same rights, liabilities, and duties as a legal person.

🔥 ‘River, Sister’ now lives in this new book, State in Relation | Stát Maidir Le, alongside fascinating contributions by fellow collaborators Sonya Gildea, Susan Tomaselli, Clare Bell, Nathan O’Donnell, Oein DeBhairduin & Nithy Kasa. Supported by @templebargalleryandstudios + @artscouncilireland.

https://booksupstairs.ie/all-events/state-in-relation-readings-conversation/

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🎺 This Earth Day, we’re excited to announce a collaboration between Letters to the Earth, Shakespeare’s Globe and Cardboard Adventures for London Climate Action Week.

☀️ On Sunday 21st June, Summer Solstice, we’re taking over the @the_globe main auditorium - offering a rare chance to step onto its iconic stage and speak up for nature.

If you had one message for the planet, what would it be?

Hosted and curated by the award-winning participatory storytelling organisation @letterstotheearth_ , visitors will be invited to write a Letter to or from the Earth, giving voice to what’s important to them.

🌍 Drop in between 12-5 to write your Letter with support from our facilitators, and add it to a growing installation inside the Globe.

Alongside actors, activists and voices from the global Rights of Nature movement, we will invite people up onto stage to read out Letters they’ve written.

What needs to be said - for nature, for life, for our future?

Whether you’re inspired by Shakespeare, the world around us, nature, or all these things, the stage becomes your space to speak.

Save the date.

#LettersToTheEarth #LondonClimateActionWeek2026 #EarthDay

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Thank you for such a powerful day ✨

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us at Words That Change the Weather at The Playhouse — for the listening, the sharing, the connections and the care in the room.

Thank you to our brilliant contributors
Mary McGuigan @zerowastenw @the_rightsofnature
Anjuli Grantham @historiadq @ulsteruni
Emma Mowlam (@sperrinsoul_forestschool Laura McCafferty (@ccadld )
Orion Powell That’s Powerful @playhousederry
Jack McGarrigle (Artitude)
Conor O’Kane (Community Garden Support) Tristan (@yfoe_derry @friendsoftheearthni )

And special thanks to Kathy Dunphy and @ecounesco for bringing us together, with support from the Shared Island Civic Society Fund, and to @ulsterwildlife .

And of course - @yoyoyomuhamed on food!

Creativity, community and care — exactly what’s needed as we head into winter. 🌍💚

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A huge win for the River Wensum!

The Council unanimously passed the Rights of the River motion last night 🎉

This is a bold, positive stand for a river under immense pressure, setting up a platform which will empower communities to deliver real, on-the-ground conservation and ensuring future planning decisions put the river’s needs first 💪

It also sets the stage for more rivers, and further stretches of the Wensum, to gain the protections they deserve.

This happened because of your support, so thank you! 🤝

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It’s been at least a decade of campaigning to get @norwichcitycouncil to take the rights of the river seriously. So tonight was pretty sweet.
Although it was sad to see so many Labour councillors speaking against a motion that puts Norwich on the map of nature defenders, we got there in the end. Thank you to Cllr Lubbock (Lib Dem) for seconding.

A really important step for our wonderful river - and towards filling the ‘nature shaped hole’ in rights

Thanks for the fantastic support @wensumriverkin @cowtowerdippers @mrgchampion @norfolkwt @robgmacfarlane and many more

#rightsofnature #rivers #chalkstreams #nature

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🌊 Norwich city council could help lead the way for river rights 🌿

On 25 November, Norwich City Council will debate a pioneering motion to recognise and protect the River Wensum – one of the UK’s rare and ecologically significant chalk streams.

The Norfolk Wildlife Trust has led production of a letter with over 160 signatories supporting the motion, including many local users, authors Robert Macfarlane and Patrick Barkham, and a wide range of organisations from Cow Tower Dippers to the Norfolk Rivers Trust.

This motion, proposed by Cllr Lucy Galvin and seconded by Cllr Judith Lubbock (Liberal Democrats), aims to safeguard this internationally important river from pollution, over-abstraction, and habitat loss.

Why does it matter?
✅ Chalk streams are almost unique to England
✅ Vital for wildlife and local communities
✅ Under serious threat

Norwich could help set a UK example by recognising rivers as living systems with rights – including the right to flow, thrive, and be free from pollution.

💬 “This is about being part of changing our relationship with nature – from exploitation to respect,” said Cllr Galvin.

📅 Motion debate: 25 November
📍 Norwich City Council

👉 Show your support! Share this post and join the conversation about protecting our rivers

#RiverWensum #RightsOfNature #Norwich #ChalkStreams #WildlifeProtection #ClimateAction #NatureRights

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