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Driving a Revolution from the Municipal Grassroots: How You Can Stop Unwanted Corporate Projects by Adopting a Bill of Rights for Nature and Your Community
Workshop Speakers
Shannon Biggs, previously a senior staffer at Global Exchange and at the International Forum on Globalization, is the co-founder/Director of Movement Rights, which works to advance the rights of communities, indigenous peoples and ecosystems. A leading figure in the international...
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Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
Thomas Linzey, award-winning Executive Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, which has provided free legal services to 500+ local governments and organizations, co-founded the Daniel Pennock Democracy School, which has graduated 6,000+ lawyers, activists, and...
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Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
Mari Margil, Associate Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, leads the organization's global Rights of Nature work. In 2008, she assisted Ecuador's Constituent Assembly to draft Rights of Nature constitutional provisions, and works today in Nepal, India, Colombia...
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