Will Falk’s Life-Centered Writing

Rights for Lake Erie? Why Corporate Rights and Preemption Must Go

Dec 21, 2019 | Analysis, Essays

I wrote this with Sean Butler. Rights of nature advocates often repeat the words, “The structure of the legal system makes meaningful environmental protection illegal.” It’s a bold claim, but for most people it’s too vague to mean anything. Most folks (understandably)...

Until Only Scars Remain

Oct 1, 2019 | Essays

Originally published in Canary Literary Magazine.I want to give up. Each morning the headlines are heavier and my heart buckles under the load. A United Nations report, prepared by 145 experts from 50 countries, warns that one million of the planet’s eight million...

Questioning Unquestioned Beliefs: What the Lake Erie Bill of Rights Teaches Us

Jun 18, 2019 | Analysis, Essays

By: Will Falk & Sean ButlerIt should be clear to anyone following the events surrounding attempts by the citizens of Toledo, OH, with help from nonprofit law firm the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), to protect Lake Erie with the Lake Erie Bill...

Interview for Black Bear News on the Necessity of Militant Resistance

May 30, 2019 | Analysis, Direct Action Journal, Interviews

It was my pleasure to be interviewed by Kevin Sandbloom for his Youtube channel Black Bear News. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C0rB8QGpgA

Why the Legal System Will Not Save the Planet

Apr 26, 2019 | Analysis, Interviews

A short interview about how American law makes sustainability illegal and what we should do about...

Fighting for the Rights of Southern Resident Orcas

Apr 5, 2019 | Analysis, Essays

I wrote this with Sean Butler. On December 18, 2018, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Wild Fish Conservancy threatened the Trump administration with a lawsuit under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) for allowing salmon fisheries to take too many salmon,...