Session
3



How is Earth centred law playing out in the world?


How can we change the law and our relationships with 'nature'?

in preparation for connecting with your group please set aside half an hour
for this meditation with Tyson Yunkaporta,
academic, an arts critic, and a researcher who belongs to the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland.

Find a quiet safe place, free from distraction to lie on the Earth
Dream Walk

source: https://stokely.podbean.com/e/ep-17_tyson-yunkaporta/

Recommended Reading

Podcasts

We invite you to listen to this 20 minute podcast discussing
how Earth Laws are playing out in America and Australia
here

source: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/earth-jurisprudence/3593446

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In this 86 minute podcast Potawatomi scientist, Robin Wall Kimmerer discusses pluralistic ways of knowing, seeing and listening to the natural world.

The Intelligence of Plants

source: https://onbeing.org/programs/robin-wall-kimmerer-the-intelligence-of-plants/

Further materials

If you have time for some deeper context : additionally read or watch these following pieces...


Current happenings in the global movement
source: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/coalition-urges-ecuadors-constitutional-court-to-make-historic-rights-of-nature-ruling-1311599.htm

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The Legal Case for the Universal Declaration of The Rights of Mother Earth
source: https://therightsofnature.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/Legal-Case-for-Universal-Declaration-Cormac-Cullinan.pdf

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Exploration of Wild law and its philosophical underpinnings.
source: https://therightsofnature.org/wpcontent/uploads/pdfs/Burdon_Exploring_Wild_Law_extract_2011.pdf

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This piece recognises the ongoing links between increased bio-diversity of Indigenous managed lands
Biodiversity highest on Indigenous-managed lands
source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190731102157.htm

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This recent podcast also with Natasha Myers dives into deep time plant conspiracies
Growing the Planthropocene
source: https://forthewild.world/listen/dr-natasha-myers-on-growing-the-planthroposcene-204

PROGRAM

HOME

Short Written Material

This article asks,
are we perpetuating colonial constructs through working within a flawed legal system?
Australia’s colonial nomopoly: Where can Indigenous peoples turn for justice?

source: https://www.abc.net.au/religion/where-can-indigenous-peoples-turn-for-justice/12863558?fbclid=IwAR0t0so__ou_LKqcAUQRnPRDCVQopiFdPf1Oq0W5UxZiIIkWZLYfIBsFWLg


Article by Marlikka Perdrisat discussing First Law,
acknowledging the interdependence of Indigenous governance frameworks.
Understanding The Role Of First Law In Our Country

source: https://junkee.com/understanding-first-law/278373?fbclid=IwAR3LAWeJNo8RIV5s2AwbfoAcwpp2D94qqZ4WGEDupfAJgSGkNvX6pWV34zA


In this article Morgan Brigg and Mary Graham write with
The relevance of Aboriginal political concepts: Country, Place, and territory


source: https://www.abc.net.au/religion/aboriginal-political-concepts-country-place-territory/12815608?fbclid=IwAR0KQYWYskwBWBdyM6CWB3dzAbzH6BmMmQoo3zdn544i3oa3wNtZrcm_Zbs


Case Study
Blue Mountains City Council are exploring the practical implications of bringing Rights of Nature
into local policies and planning in a trickle up method.
read the article
here

source: https://www.bluemts.com.au/news/council-resolves-to-integrate-rights-of-nature-into-operations-and-planning/

Prompt questions

What are the dangers and pitfalls of placing 'nature' within a western legal framework?

What is beyond law?

What other options do we have?

What is our personal responsibility towards building new relationships for the future?

How might we do that?


Actions

What actions can you undertake to develop a deeper relationship with place?

How does the land you live on converse with you about the past, present and/or future...

from Dahr Jamail's Book The End of Ice

Relations of Place orient us to immediate obligations — to a neighbour in need, to an injury requiring first aid, a polluted stream requiring rehabilitation. As these connections radiate, they connect, picking up the trace of violence in the needs of those dispossessed, in the wounds of colonialism resonating through the decades, in the desecration of Country. They return us to the work of responsible relationship and recovery.

Morgan Brigg and Mary Graham

Science asks us to learn about organisms, tradition asks us to learn from other beings...
Moss are superb teachers about living within your means.

Robin Wall Kimmerer