Sisters in Defense of the Amazon Rainforest: Oil Companies Bring Terror to Ecuadorian Amazon

Sisters in Defense of the Amazon Rainforest: Oil Companies Bring Terror to Ecuadorian Amazon, at Bioneers

By Brenda Norrell

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In the Headwaters of the Amazon.

"They blew up the ground and blew away the spirits of our ancestors."

They tortured her relatives and threatened to rape the young girls.

Nina Gualinga, and her sister Helena, told the Bioneers Conference of the terror, and climate change, that the oil companies had brought to their community of Sarayaku, where they swam in the Bobonaza River as children.

Rights of Nature: Attorneys Describe Emerging Movement in Indian Country

At the Bioneers Conference, "Rights of Nature: From Grassroots to Mainstream." Moderator Alexis Bunten with attorneys Thomas Linzey; Frank Bibeau, Chippewa; Samantha Skenandore, Ho-Chunk/Oneida.

Rights of Nature: Attorneys Describe Emerging Movement in Indian Country, at Bioneers

By Brenda Norrell

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May 14, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO -- Attorneys in the forefront of writing Constitutional laws for the Rights of Nature, and taking the battle to the courtrooms, described the emerging movement upholding the inherent rights of ecosystems.

What will it look like when a forest has its own rights?

During the three-day annual Bioneers Conference, attorneys described the legal battle to honor nature -- the relatives of the people -- and halt the corporate destruction.

Nick Estes and Sikowis at Bioneers, Sunday, May 15, 2022

Nick Estes, PhD, cofounder of The Red Nation, and Sikowis, founder of the Great Plains Action Society, today at Bioneers, at San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts and in the virtual conference.

Nick Estes speaks on "The Age of the Water Protector and Climate Chaos" this morning at Bioneers

Censored News original series from talks and panels at Bioneers

Sikowis and Nick Estes: 

The Failed System, Schemes of Non-Profits and a Regenerative Future

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2022/05/sikowis-and-nick-estes-failed-system.html

Sisters in Defense of Amazon Rainforest

Oil Companies Bring Terror to Ecuadorian Amazon

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2022/05/sisters-in-defense-of-amazon-rainforest.html

Rights of Nature Attorneys Describe Emerging Movement in Indian Country

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2022/05/rights-of-nature-attorneys-describe.html

By Bioneers

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Nick Estes, Ph.D. (Kul Wicasa/Lower Brule Sioux), is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and a member of the Oak Lake Writers Society, a group of Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota writers. In 2014, he was a co-founder of The Red Nation in Albuquerque, NM, an organization dedicated to the liberation of Native people from capitalism and colonialism.

'Daughters for Earth: Women and the Climate Change Movement' at Bioneers

Daughters for Earth: Women and the Climate Change Movement

Women discuss the impacts of climate change and the search for personal healing, during today's three day Bioneers Conference at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco and the virtual conference

By Bioneers

Daughters for Earth: May 14th | 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm Pacific time

Register to watch the virtual conference online

https://conference.bioneers.org/register/

Women all over the globe, especially in the “developing world,” are the ones who most often bear the brunt of having to contend with the radical disruptions visited upon their families and communities by climate change and environmental degradation, yet women’s voices are far too often ignored.

Furthermore, climate change and physical and psycho-spiritual health are almost always discussed as separate issues, but the personal and the political, the heart and the mind are not just interconnected, they are all one.