EarthSayers.tv is the largest collection of voices speaking on behalf of Mother Earth hence its name. In this special collection we provide an introduction to the many voices advocating the rights of Mother Earth. A core element of this advocacy is embodied in a document entitled, The Universal Declaration of Rights of Mother Earth Preamble.
The preamble begins "We, the peoples and nations of Earth: considering that we are all part of Mother Earth, an indivisible, living community of interrelated and interdependent beings with a common destiny...
Listen to a reading of the complete preamble here on EarthSayers.tv. A written copy is available on The Global Alliance for Rights of Nature Website is here.
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Message from Ecuador to Chevron CEO John Watson |
A heartfelt message from the Amazon rainforest communities in Ecuador to new Chevron CEO John Watson: "We don't want to continue dying of cancer." This video message appeals for Chevron to clean up its massive contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon that has devastated the environment and continues to cause widespread cancer, birth defects, and other ailments. (published in Jan 2010) |
A Declaration from Amazonian Nationalities Michelle Thrush Presents
Amazon Women of Ecuador at UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
A Reading of the Universal Declaration of Mother Earth Preamble
The Earth's Lawyer by Garz and Higgins
Rights of Nature by David Tucker of Pachamama Alliance
Mari Margil and Thomas Linzey â Changing Everything: The Global Movement for the Ri
Apache Resistance At Oak Flat Against Arizona Copper Mine
West Papua Intervention at UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Sacha Warmi Center and The Rights of Nature by Didier Lacaze
Message from Ecuador to Chevron CEO John Watson
A Farmer in Africa: Property Rights by WRI
America's Wolves At Risk by Defenders of Wildlife
Easy Money in the Amazon - At what cost? by Patricia Gualinga
Declaration, Rights of Mother Earth by Maude Barlow
About the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature by Mari Margil
Forest Keepers - Guarda Bosques in Español w/English Subtitles
Interconnectedness and Keeping Oil Underground by Manari Ushinga
The Rights of Nature in Ecuador by Didier Lacaze