Dec 14, 2017 | Analysis, Colorado River, Essays
Our first-in-the-nation lawsuit seeking personhood for the Colorado River was dismissed. After the Colorado Attorney General filed a motion to dismiss and threatened sanctions against attorney Jason Flores-Williams for the unforgivable act of requesting rights for...
Nov 30, 2017 | Colorado River, Essays, Poetry
Colorado River Dispatch #5 (November 17, 2017): The River’s Ghost Tuesday, I stood on the steps of the Alfred A. Arraj Federal Courthouse in Denver before a crowd gathered to hear my thoughts as one of the “next friends” in our lawsuit seeking personhood for the...
Nov 20, 2017 | Colorado River
This is a comprehensive interview with the National Community Rights Network’s Dr. Tom Groover about the Colorado River lawsuit, confronting corporate power, and the rights of...
Nov 10, 2017 | Colorado River, Essays, Poetry
#1 What Does the Colorado River Need? (October 25, 2017): When I agreed to serve as a “next friend” to the Colorado River in a first-ever federal lawsuit seeking personhood and rights of nature for the river, I agreed to represent the river’s interests in court. On a...
Nov 8, 2017 | Colorado River, Interviews
I was interviewed by KGNU’s Maeve Conran for the program “A Public Affair” about the Colorado River Rights of Nature lawsuit. My part begins at 29:40.
Nov 2, 2017 | Analysis, Essays
This piece was originally published by Catalyst Magazine as “The ‘Rights of Nature’ Movement” If I asked you, “Which corporation provides drinking water to 40 million Americans?” you might guess Nestle or Pepsi or Coca Cola. It’s a trick...