"Mainstream legal systems have long recognized that entities, not just humans, have legal rights—specifically economic entities like corporations and trusts. In the United States, free speech rights allotted to corporations enable them to give unlimited sums of money to political candidates."
This is really elegantly put: "But unlike many of us, who by circumstance or choice know little about the kaleidoscope of Indigenous cultures, people like Mamio Serato have learned to navigate both their world and ours."
Bolivia's Rights of Nature Laws Go Unenforced as the Amazon Burns https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13102024/bolivia-rights-of-nature-laws-unenforced/
I spent much of my early career thinking about peacebuilding. But in this book, I can only reference in a few paragraphs what I spent years trying to learn about nonviolent civil resistance. It makes sense. It's a book about Tolkien and trees, not arguments and efficacy peaceful nonviolence […]
An agent of Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade and a burning excavator at a wildcat mining operation in the Amazon.
Here's an interesting example of state violence against mining infrastructure. How Brazil is taking the fight to destructive illegal mining https://www.ft.com/content/5eb64108-3181-4352-804e-aca76e1be505
I want to find a real-world equivalent to the Ents breaking Isengard. I am tempted to draw parralels to incidents of eco-sabotage, but the comparison is imperfect. The ents are a nation, for one thing. The fight in Isengard is more of a seige of an army than an incident of monkey-wrenching.
Chevron has an oil platform named "Blind Faith". https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ports-restrict-navigation-some-oil-facilities-shut-milton-approaches-florida-2024-10-07/