[Classifieds] 3/17 Sierra Club Talk, "Protecting the Rights of Nature: From Concept to Success" - via Zoom, 7-8pm

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Learn about the rights of nature - rivers, species, and habitats - and how they can be leveraged to protect and restore water resources, species, and habitats on Cape Cod and beyond. Hope to see you on Tuesday night!

"Third Tuesday” Talk Series
Protecting the Rights of Nature: From Concept to Success
Tuesday, March 17th
7:00 - 8:00pm
Virtual, via Zoom

Register here<https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=701Po00001VgaSzIAJ&mapLinkHref=>
Join talk here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89176128525?pwd=V2R3QS9QaEF5cXhZY2xBRm1hQXJRdz09

The virtual Third Tuesday Talk series hosted by Sierra Club’s Cape Cod & Islands Group continues March 17th at 7pm with an introduction to the “Rights of Nature” movement, including notable successes and practical challenges in protecting the rights of rivers, species, and habitats to exist and thrive. Featured speaker Will Falk is co-coordinator of Community Resistance & Resilience for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund<https://celdf.org/> (CELDF), which over the past 30+ years has led pioneering global and U.S. campaigns to turn rights-of-nature concepts into enforceable laws that empower indigenous peoples and other communities to protect ecological values. This event is free and open to all; time will be reserved for audience Q&A.

In 2023, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council adopted a resolution<https://ecojurisprudence.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Mashpee-Wampanoag-Tribal-Council-Resolution-on-Rights-of-Herring.pdf>, advanced by Tribal youth leaders with support from the Bioneers Indigeniety Program<https://bioneers.org/rights-of-nature/>, acknowledging the rights of river herring "to migrate freely, procreate abundantly, and safely make their journey back to sea” and designating the Tribe as sole legal guardian. Next steps are to incorporate protections in Tribal law and develop an intergovernmental compact with the state of Massachusetts establishing the Mashpee as guardian of the river herring.

Featured Speaker

Will Falk is a writer, lawyer, and environmental activist. For CELDF, he serves as co-coordinator of Community Resistance & Resilience and provides legal research and consulting services. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School and practiced as a public defender before pursuing frontline environmental activism. This work has taken him to an indigenous cultural center and pipeline blockade on unceded Wet’suwet’en territory in British Columbia, to a construction blockade on Mauna Kea in Hawai’i, to endangered pinyon-juniper forests in the Great Basin, and to Thacker Pass in northern Nevada where Will is trying to stop an open-pit lithium mine from destroying a beautiful mountain pass. Will’s first book How Dams Fall<https://willfalk.org/how-dams-fall/> describes his relationship with the Colorado River in the context of his efforts to help file the first-ever U.S. federal lawsuit seeking rights for a major ecosystem. His second book When I Set the Sweetgrass Down<https://willfalk.org/when-i-set-the-sweetgrass-down/> is a collection of poems written from the frontlines of land defense campaigns.


Sincerely,

Chris Powicki
Chair, Sierra Club’s Cape Cod & Islands Group
774.487.4614




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