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“Creating a Life-Centered Resistance Movement” Radio Interview for KPFA, Berkeley

March 06, 2018 5349 Views 5 Comments
Jeffry Fawcett interviewed my good friend Max Wilbert and me about creating a life-centered resistance movement by any means necessary …
  • Colorado River , Essays

Plastic Whales, Humpback Whales, and Babysitting in the Anthropocene

March 01, 2018 2760 Views 2 Comments
Special Thanks to Whole Terrain where this piece first appeared. I was broke for Christmas. In September, I helped to …
  • Interviews

Time to Escalate? 2nd Video Interview with National Community Rights Network

January 06, 2018 1507 Views 0 Comment
The second interview I gave to the National Community Rights Network’s Dr. Tom Groover. This one happened after the lawsuit …
  • Analysis , Colorado River , Essays

Time to Escalate?: First-Ever Rights of Nature Lawsuit Dismissed

December 14, 2017 1682 Views 0 Comment
Our first-in-the-nation lawsuit seeking personhood for the Colorado River was dismissed. After the Colorado Attorney General filed a motion to …
  • Colorado River , Essays , Poetry

Colorado River Dispatches 5-7

November 30, 2017 1844 Views 0 Comment
Colorado River Dispatch #5 (November 17, 2017): The River’s Ghost Tuesday, I stood on the steps of the Alfred A. …
  • Colorado River

Video Interview with National Community Rights Network on the Rights of Nature

November 20, 2017 1261 Views 0 Comment
This is a comprehensive interview with the National Community Rights Network’s Dr. Tom Groover about the Colorado River lawsuit, confronting …
  • Colorado River , Essays , Poetry

Colorado River Dispatches 1-4

November 10, 2017 2003 Views 0 Comment
#1 What Does the Colorado River Need? (October 25, 2017): When I agreed to serve as a “next friend” to …
  • Colorado River , Interviews

Interview for KGNU Radio on the Colorado River Rights of Nature Lawsuit

November 08, 2017 1547 Views 0 Comment
I was interviewed by KGNU’s Maeve Conran for the program “A Public Affair” about the Colorado River Rights of Nature …
  • Analysis , Essays

Finally, an American Rights of Nature Movement

November 02, 2017 2389 Views 0 Comment
This piece was originally published by Catalyst Magazine as “The ‘Rights of Nature’ Movement” If I asked you, “Which corporation …
  • Analysis , Essays

The Rights of Nature and the Power(lessness) of Law

October 19, 2017 1232 Views 0 Comment
This piece was originally published by the San Diego Free Press.  In the war for social and environmental justice, even …
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  • Poetry

Bear Hunt

October 29, 2015 2386 Views 1 Comment
after midnight, Big Cypress seeking refuge again at the edge of the continent following the paths bears still walk past …
  • Direct Action Journal , Essays

Direct Action Journal: Overcoming Fear

May 14, 2016 2286 Views 1 Comment
Another episode with anxiety knocks me to my bedroom floor. Rational thought forsakes me. My body shakes with the strangled …
  • Analysis , Essays

Fighting for the Rights of Southern Resident Orcas

April 05, 2019 1320 Views 1 Comment
I wrote this with Sean Butler. On December 18, 2018, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Wild Fish Conservancy …
  • Essays , Unist'ot'en Camp

From Unist’ot’en Camp: No Word For Goodbye

June 09, 2014 1176 Views 1 Comment
Leaving Unist’ot’en Camp was hard. As I stepped away from a group of new friends passing pens and notebooks around …
  • Essays , Poetry

Listening to The Land Saves My Life

November 16, 2016 1788 Views 1 Comment
This first appeared on Jason Howell’s Howlarium. Special thanks to Jason for his graphics.  from Jason: “Where it’s not uncommon for …
  • Analysis , Essays , Mauna Kea

Liberalism’s Game: The Failure of Settler Solidarity in Hawai’i

August 19, 2015 1260 Views 0 Comment
When I am in Hawai’i, I ask everyone I meet if the United States will ever voluntarily de-occupy the Islands. …
  • Essays , Unist'ot'en Camp

Change the World, Change Yourself

January 22, 2015 1076 Views 0 Comment
Friends and family tell me I too often focus on the negative. My doctors and therapists have told me me …
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New Park City Witness: The Problems With “Open Space”

September 12, 2017 1965 Views 0 Comment
Before murdering millions during the Holocaust, the Nazis referred to Jews as rats. After murdering 17 people and lobotomizing some …
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Decolonizing the Law: Panel Conversation with CELDF

October 01, 2020 358 Views 0 Comment
I participated in a conversation about rights of Nature and decolonizing American law with other lawyers from the Community Environmental …
  • Essays , Mauna Kea

Protecting Mauna Kea: Vocabulary for Haoles

June 18, 2015 2393 Views 0 Comment
I write these words from the floor of a warm corner of the men’s restroom at the Mauna Kea visitor …
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