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.
Curated by mokiethecat
A Reading of the Universal Declaration of Mother Earth Preamble |
Video inspired on this manifesto: proclaimed in 2010 at the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (Cochabamba, Bolivia) featuring the reading of the Preamble and Articles and and 2. Uploaded on May 1, 2011 |
Rights of Nature by David Tucker of Pachamama Alliance
A Farmer in Africa: Property Rights by WRI
Apache Resistance At Oak Flat Against Arizona Copper Mine
The Earth's Lawyer by Garz and Higgins
Easy Money in the Amazon - At what cost? by Patricia Gualinga
About the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature by Mari Margil
Sacha Warmi Center and The Rights of Nature by Didier Lacaze
Interconnectedness and Keeping Oil Underground by Manari Ushinga
Message from Ecuador to Chevron CEO John Watson
Declaration, Rights of Mother Earth by Maude Barlow
Forest Keepers - Guarda Bosques in Español w/English Subtitles
A Declaration from Amazonian Nationalities Michelle Thrush Presents
The Rights of Nature in Ecuador by Didier Lacaze
West Papua Intervention at UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Amazon Women of Ecuador at UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
America's Wolves At Risk by Defenders of Wildlife