This session will explore the Rights of Nature through the milestone cases of Ecuador and the movement for Rights of Nature in Australian and internationally.

Moderator: Neylan Aykut, Melbourne Rainforest Action Group (MRAG)

Speakers:

Carlos Zorilla, co-founder and vice president of DECOIN (Defensa y Conservacion Ecologica de Intag/Ecological Defense and Conservation of Intag) – a grassroots organization in the Intag region of Ecuador.

Liz Downes, Rainforest Information Centre

Dr Michelle Maloney is Co-Founder and National Convenor of the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA), Adjunct Senior Fellow, Law Futures Centre, Griffith University; and Director of the New Economy Network Australia (NENA) and Future Dreaming Australia. She advocates for systems change, in order to shift industrialised societies from a human-centred, to an Earth-centred governance system.

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Beyond Mining - Protecting land, water & life.

This podcast series was recorded from a number of talks, panel discussion & workshops held between the 22nd-29th November 2020 at the Beyond Mining Counter Conference. This counter conference was organised by Blockade IMARC. Blockade IMARC is made up of an alliance of organisations that have been protesting the International Mining & Resources Conference held annually in so-called Melbourne, Australia on unceded Wurunjeri & Boon Wurrung country. Content Topics: First Nations' Sovereignty, Capitalism, Colonialism, Extractivism, Activism

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