Mar 1, 2018 | Colorado River, Essays
Special Thanks to Whole Terrain where this piece first appeared. I was broke for Christmas. In September, I helped to file the first-ever federal lawsuit in the U.S. seeking the rights of nature for a major ecosystem, the Colorado River. For the rest of the fall, to...
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...
Oct 19, 2017 | Analysis, Essays
This piece was originally published by the San Diego Free Press. In the war for social and environmental justice, even the best lawyers rarely serve as anything more than battlefield medics. They do what they can to stop the bleeding for the people, places, and...
Oct 17, 2017 | Interviews
I was interviewed with the brilliant Deanna Meyer on Berkeley’s CA’s KPFA public radio about our Colorado River Rights of Nature lawsuit.
