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The Peat-Fest 2022 Program!
Tuesday 30th,
11.00-12.00 CEST
💥Join Radha for a discussion on Rights, Nature and Society.
Radha D’Souza’s session will explore
💡The meaning of rights in liberal societies,
💡How rights mediate the relationships between nature and people,
💡Why activists who wish to change the world for the better cling on to the idea even when it has not delivered on its promises.
Radha D’Souza is a critical scholar, social justice activist, barrister, and writer from India and author of 'What's Wrong With Rights? Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations'.
Radha lives in London and teaches law at the School of Law in University of Westminster.
If you would like to watch Radha’s speech at the inauguration of the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes at Framer Framed, type this link in your browser https://tinyurl.com/2p98akc2
🔎Desired outcomes of the session are an open engagement with the issues, even if they are controversial. Creation of a friendly and informal environment of trust and intellectual curiosity for all participants.
The image of the book cover for Radha D'Souza's book What's Wrong With Rights? Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations published by Pluto Press in 2018. The cover is in red and black letters in bold types and does not have images.
Radha D’Souza’s session will explore
💡The meaning of rights in liberal societies,
💡How rights mediate the relationships between nature and people,
💡Why activists who wish to change the world for the better cling on to the idea even when it has not delivered on its promises.
Radha D’Souza is a critical scholar, social justice activist, barrister, and writer from India and author of 'What's Wrong With Rights? Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations'.
Radha lives in London and teaches law at the School of Law in University of Westminster.
If you would like to watch Radha’s speech at the inauguration of the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes at Framer Framed, type this link in your browser https://tinyurl.com/2p98akc2
🔎Desired outcomes of the session are an open engagement with the issues, even if they are controversial. Creation of a friendly and informal environment of trust and intellectual curiosity for all participants.
The image of the book cover for Radha D'Souza's book What's Wrong With Rights? Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations published by Pluto Press in 2018. The cover is in red and black letters in bold types and does not have images.
Tuesday 30th, 13.00-14.00 CEST
🏰Join Nsah Mala’s session at Peat-Fest 2022
And discuss postcolonial ecocriticism, fortress conservation and peatlands in the Congo Basin.
What is the role of literature and arts in environmental-climate discussions and practices in the Congo Basin? With the increasing global interest in the recently discovered world-largest peatlands in the basin, how does this connect to the topic of fortress conservation?
Msah Mala will talk about concepts such as:
🛤environmental humanities
🔫green imperialism.
Dr Kenneth Nsah, widely known under his pen name Nsah Mala, is a writer, poet, journalist, translator, and literary scholar from Cameroon, operating in English and French, and sometimes Indigenous Mbessa language. He holds a PhD in comparative literature from Aarhus University in Denmark and other degrees and certificates from universities in Cameroon, Senegal, France, UK, Spain, USA, and Germany.
And discuss postcolonial ecocriticism, fortress conservation and peatlands in the Congo Basin.
What is the role of literature and arts in environmental-climate discussions and practices in the Congo Basin? With the increasing global interest in the recently discovered world-largest peatlands in the basin, how does this connect to the topic of fortress conservation?
Msah Mala will talk about concepts such as:
🛤environmental humanities
🔫green imperialism.
Dr Kenneth Nsah, widely known under his pen name Nsah Mala, is a writer, poet, journalist, translator, and literary scholar from Cameroon, operating in English and French, and sometimes Indigenous Mbessa language. He holds a PhD in comparative literature from Aarhus University in Denmark and other degrees and certificates from universities in Cameroon, Senegal, France, UK, Spain, USA, and Germany.
Tuesday 30th, 18.00-19.00 CEST
💥Mari Margil will be presenting the session
“Advancing the Rights of Nature & Peatlands”
Mari is the Executive Director of the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights. She has worked on advancing the Rights of Nature in law in countries around the world, including within the first national constitution, Ecuador.
@rightsofnature
@centerforenvironmentalrights
The focus of her session is
💥to provide participants with a solid understanding of the Rights of Nature
💥including where it is advancing, why and how it is advancing
💥Mari will give strategies for developing campaigns to protect the rights of peatlands
“Advancing the Rights of Nature & Peatlands”
Mari is the Executive Director of the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights. She has worked on advancing the Rights of Nature in law in countries around the world, including within the first national constitution, Ecuador.
@rightsofnature
@centerforenvironmentalrights
The focus of her session is
💥to provide participants with a solid understanding of the Rights of Nature
💥including where it is advancing, why and how it is advancing
💥Mari will give strategies for developing campaigns to protect the rights of peatlands
Tuesday 30th, 20.15-21.15 CEST
🌼Fernanda Olivares will give the session “Peatlands, a brief story about my origins”
Fernanda is a 31 years old Selk'nam woman, happily living in Tierra del Fuego Chile. She is CEO at Hach Saye foundation and dedicates her energies to protect and strengthen both her culture and her ancestral home.
In her session she will share a short description on how Selk'nam people, see, and live with peatlands, how this relationship has been for millennia, what kind of communication they have with this ancestor and how they still are able to understand each other regardless of the genocide and exile.
Fernanda is a 31 years old Selk'nam woman, happily living in Tierra del Fuego Chile. She is CEO at Hach Saye foundation and dedicates her energies to protect and strengthen both her culture and her ancestral home.
In her session she will share a short description on how Selk'nam people, see, and live with peatlands, how this relationship has been for millennia, what kind of communication they have with this ancestor and how they still are able to understand each other regardless of the genocide and exile.
Tuesday 30th, 21.15-21.30 CEST
More information will be announced shortly
Wednesday 31st, 15.00-17.00 CEST
📢Chihiro will be presenting on the session, ‘Decolonial organizing meets Rights of Nature’.
What can you expect in this session?
💭An introduction reflecting on some of the historical and conceptual tensions that lie between different people working on Environmental Rights.
💭In particular, Chihiro will pay attention to Indigenous and non-Indigenous organisational differences
💭Space for clarifying questions
💭A practical assignment
💭Reflection and discussion on the assignment
Chihiro is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, organizer, trainer with a vision to restore and re-story our relationship with Earth and each other. She is Bolivian-Dutch with Quechua ancestry born and raised in Amsterdam.
Chihiro is known for training and speaking on Decolonization, Indigenous Rights, Climate Justice, Climate racism, Art & activism, Rights for Earth, Reparations, community organizing.
What can you expect in this session?
💭An introduction reflecting on some of the historical and conceptual tensions that lie between different people working on Environmental Rights.
💭In particular, Chihiro will pay attention to Indigenous and non-Indigenous organisational differences
💭Space for clarifying questions
💭A practical assignment
💭Reflection and discussion on the assignment
Chihiro is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, organizer, trainer with a vision to restore and re-story our relationship with Earth and each other. She is Bolivian-Dutch with Quechua ancestry born and raised in Amsterdam.
Chihiro is known for training and speaking on Decolonization, Indigenous Rights, Climate Justice, Climate racism, Art & activism, Rights for Earth, Reparations, community organizing.
Wednesday 31st, 18.00-20.00 CEST
🪨 Lisa Meuser is the speaker for the session « Slowing down with Peat Moss and discovering our interdependency through emergent writing »!
Lisa is a full-time student of being fully human and is deeply passionate about connecting and inter-relating, as we play and navigate with creation in empowering ways. In her work as a somatic therapist, she utilizes transformational and wisdom-based practices in supporting people with their somatic intelligence/energies. In becoming cognitively and somatically conscious as to how the oppressive dominant narrative matrix separates us from truly living, we are able consciously choose to move into, discover and remember the realms of interdependency and liberation for all.
@lisameuser
During Lisa’s session we will:
🪨 connect with our present moment as we slow down together
🪨 explore our relationship with Peat Moss, and other eco system kin and how the micro and the macro are always in interdependent relationship
🪨 deepen into our knowing of purpose which includes yet also moves beyond the individual, into the collective of interdynamism.
If you want to learn more about Lisa’s work, you can go to http://integrativehealingnow.com!
Lisa is a full-time student of being fully human and is deeply passionate about connecting and inter-relating, as we play and navigate with creation in empowering ways. In her work as a somatic therapist, she utilizes transformational and wisdom-based practices in supporting people with their somatic intelligence/energies. In becoming cognitively and somatically conscious as to how the oppressive dominant narrative matrix separates us from truly living, we are able consciously choose to move into, discover and remember the realms of interdependency and liberation for all.
@lisameuser
During Lisa’s session we will:
🪨 connect with our present moment as we slow down together
🪨 explore our relationship with Peat Moss, and other eco system kin and how the micro and the macro are always in interdependent relationship
🪨 deepen into our knowing of purpose which includes yet also moves beyond the individual, into the collective of interdynamism.
If you want to learn more about Lisa’s work, you can go to http://integrativehealingnow.com!
Thursday 1st, 11.00-12.00 CEST
😬 Alastair McIntosh will talk about "The Peats and the Renewal of Community" at Peat-Fest 2022!
Alastair McIntosh was raised in North Lochs, Isle of Lewis, in a culture that was deeply immersed in peat and hand-cutting "the peats". He says:
“While there is today an awareness of the importance of peatland conservation and regeneration, there is also, sometimes in tension with this, an awareness that the culture of peat matters as part and parcel of people's wider connection to the land.
In recent years, that connection has been renewed through community-based land reform.”
@alastairmci (twitter)
In his session he seeks to show how
❤️ culture
❤️ empowerment
❤️ and the restoration of both ecology and community can interweave
Alastair McIntosh was raised in North Lochs, Isle of Lewis, in a culture that was deeply immersed in peat and hand-cutting "the peats". He says:
“While there is today an awareness of the importance of peatland conservation and regeneration, there is also, sometimes in tension with this, an awareness that the culture of peat matters as part and parcel of people's wider connection to the land.
In recent years, that connection has been renewed through community-based land reform.”
@alastairmci (twitter)
In his session he seeks to show how
❤️ culture
❤️ empowerment
❤️ and the restoration of both ecology and community can interweave
Thursday 1st, 15.00-15.45 CEST
📢 Khairani Barokka - Rooted Survival
We are very happy to have Khairani Barokka speaking at Peat-Fest for the second year running. 🏃♀️❤️
Khairani Barokka is a writer and artist from Jakarta, whose work has been presented widely internationally, and centers disability justice as anticolonial praxis and environmental justice.
The session Rooted in Survival, will be an exploration of:
🏵How all our lives are connected to peatland cosmologies in the Indonesian archipelago,
🏵The importance of language and language-ing peatlands
🏵Why indigenous sovereignty over peatlands is of utmost urgency.
Her latest book is Ultimatum Orangutan (Nine Arches), shortlisted for the Barbellion Prize, which centres anti-colonialism as central to environmental justice. @mailbykite
Book cover shows a dark purple background with two asymmetrical gold stripes running down the left and right sides of the frame, and a diagonal white rectangle with the words 'ULTIMATUM ORANGUTAN' and 'KHAIRANI BAROKKA' on it, in black text, separated by a small, purple stripe. The image shows a brown hand, upright with palm out, throwing purple and white energy attacks at a black-and-white bulldozer. Behind them is a purple-tinted image of Tanah Datar, West Sumatra, Indonesia. Cover illustration by Khairani Barokka.
We are very happy to have Khairani Barokka speaking at Peat-Fest for the second year running. 🏃♀️❤️
Khairani Barokka is a writer and artist from Jakarta, whose work has been presented widely internationally, and centers disability justice as anticolonial praxis and environmental justice.
The session Rooted in Survival, will be an exploration of:
🏵How all our lives are connected to peatland cosmologies in the Indonesian archipelago,
🏵The importance of language and language-ing peatlands
🏵Why indigenous sovereignty over peatlands is of utmost urgency.
Her latest book is Ultimatum Orangutan (Nine Arches), shortlisted for the Barbellion Prize, which centres anti-colonialism as central to environmental justice. @mailbykite
Book cover shows a dark purple background with two asymmetrical gold stripes running down the left and right sides of the frame, and a diagonal white rectangle with the words 'ULTIMATUM ORANGUTAN' and 'KHAIRANI BAROKKA' on it, in black text, separated by a small, purple stripe. The image shows a brown hand, upright with palm out, throwing purple and white energy attacks at a black-and-white bulldozer. Behind them is a purple-tinted image of Tanah Datar, West Sumatra, Indonesia. Cover illustration by Khairani Barokka.
Thursday 1st, 16.00-17.00 CEST
🌱 Tara Houska will be presenting the session « Water is Life » !
Tara Houska is a citizen of Couchiching First Nation, a tribal attorney, land defender, environmental and Indigenous rights advocate, and founder of the Giniw Collective, an Indigenous women, two-spirit-led frontline resistance to defend the sacred and live in balance. She led resistance efforts to the Line 3 oil pipeline, the Dakota Access pipeline, and is heavily involved in the movement to reclaim Land Back and in defunding fossil fuels.
@zhaabowekwe
@giniwcollective
During her talk you will be learning about and discussing intersection of land defense tactics with critical importance of centering decolonization and nature 🦫
Tara Houska is a citizen of Couchiching First Nation, a tribal attorney, land defender, environmental and Indigenous rights advocate, and founder of the Giniw Collective, an Indigenous women, two-spirit-led frontline resistance to defend the sacred and live in balance. She led resistance efforts to the Line 3 oil pipeline, the Dakota Access pipeline, and is heavily involved in the movement to reclaim Land Back and in defunding fossil fuels.
@zhaabowekwe
@giniwcollective
During her talk you will be learning about and discussing intersection of land defense tactics with critical importance of centering decolonization and nature 🦫
Thursday 1st, 17.00-18.30 CEST
💫Gillian Davies + Kai Huschke will dive into the topic of Universal Declaration of the Rights of Wetlands
📜A Rights of Nature Approach to the Responding to the Climate and Biodiversity Emergency
In this workshop you will be introduced to the Universal Declaration of Rights of Wetlands (ROW) (www.rightsofwetlands.org)
🌟How was the Declaration developed in the context of the Rights of Nature movement?
🌟What is the global loss and degradation of wetlands including peatlands, biodiversity and our destabilizing climate?
🌟How to operationalize ROW in the context of wetland conservation and management.
Rights of Nature is a concept recognized by several courts, legislatures and international governance institutions. It draws on increased understanding of belief systems and traditional practices of Indigenous Peoples & local communities (IPLC). Recognition of legal rights and living beingness of wetlands, consistent with many IPLC world views, supports life on Earth and has potential to create a paradigm shift in addressing the climate & biodiversity emergency, including continued loss of peatlands & other wetlands.
Gillian Davies is Senior Ecologist/Senior Associate at BSC Group in Worcester, Massachusetts where her work focuses on climate change and wetlands. Gillian works with local communities to develop Nature-based Solutions, particularly wetland, forest and soil conservation and restoration.
Kai works with community rights groups in the Western United States including Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington, as well as advises on international legal rights of nature projects.
📜A Rights of Nature Approach to the Responding to the Climate and Biodiversity Emergency
In this workshop you will be introduced to the Universal Declaration of Rights of Wetlands (ROW) (www.rightsofwetlands.org)
🌟How was the Declaration developed in the context of the Rights of Nature movement?
🌟What is the global loss and degradation of wetlands including peatlands, biodiversity and our destabilizing climate?
🌟How to operationalize ROW in the context of wetland conservation and management.
Rights of Nature is a concept recognized by several courts, legislatures and international governance institutions. It draws on increased understanding of belief systems and traditional practices of Indigenous Peoples & local communities (IPLC). Recognition of legal rights and living beingness of wetlands, consistent with many IPLC world views, supports life on Earth and has potential to create a paradigm shift in addressing the climate & biodiversity emergency, including continued loss of peatlands & other wetlands.
Gillian Davies is Senior Ecologist/Senior Associate at BSC Group in Worcester, Massachusetts where her work focuses on climate change and wetlands. Gillian works with local communities to develop Nature-based Solutions, particularly wetland, forest and soil conservation and restoration.
Kai works with community rights groups in the Western United States including Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington, as well as advises on international legal rights of nature projects.
Thursday 1st, 18.30-19.30 CEST
🌟Ben Price is hosting the session, ‘The Place of Community and people in the Rights of Nature Movement’.
Ben Price is part of The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund - CELDF - whose mission includes the Rights of Nature and Community Rights, seeing them as inextricably linked. This session explores the human-nature dichotomy and how law interacts with this, as well as how this feeds into alienation and lack of connection with one another.
“ Placing Nature at the center of our world view and returning human communities to their natural context seems the best way to resolve past cultural errors and begin to heal our lost right-relation to the world and each other.”
For this session CELDF would like participants to engage with them to explore opportunities for advancing Community Rights and Rights of Nature where they live.
Ben Price has nearly two decades of experience organizing communities across the United States to challenge state and federal legalization of corporate assaults against people and their environments. Most recently, he drafted Rights of Nature legislation introduced into the New York state General Assembly for the 2022 legislative session. Ben participated in the founding of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (Ecuador, 2010), and authored the book “How Wealth Rules the World: Saving Our Communities and Freedoms from the Dictatorship of Property.”
Ben Price is part of The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund - CELDF - whose mission includes the Rights of Nature and Community Rights, seeing them as inextricably linked. This session explores the human-nature dichotomy and how law interacts with this, as well as how this feeds into alienation and lack of connection with one another.
“ Placing Nature at the center of our world view and returning human communities to their natural context seems the best way to resolve past cultural errors and begin to heal our lost right-relation to the world and each other.”
For this session CELDF would like participants to engage with them to explore opportunities for advancing Community Rights and Rights of Nature where they live.
Ben Price has nearly two decades of experience organizing communities across the United States to challenge state and federal legalization of corporate assaults against people and their environments. Most recently, he drafted Rights of Nature legislation introduced into the New York state General Assembly for the 2022 legislative session. Ben participated in the founding of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (Ecuador, 2010), and authored the book “How Wealth Rules the World: Saving Our Communities and Freedoms from the Dictatorship of Property.”
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