The coolest boat in the world is now also the baddest boat on the planet. footage shot at the legendary Riko Riko cave at the Poor Knights marine reserve. And featuring a wicked track from Tiki Taane
Sea Shepherd Renames the Earthrace Vessel in Honor of Benefactor
Los Angeles, CA- At a fundraising event in Los Angeles on Saturday, October 17th, 2009, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society unveiled their newest ocean defense vessel: the Ady Gil. The vessel, previously known as the Earthrace, is a fast, futuristic looking trimaran that recently set the world record for global circumnavigation. The vessel renaming reflects the ship’s benefactor, Ady Gil, who helped acquire the vessel.
Sea Shepherd is currently preparing for it’s 6th Whale Defense Campaign Operation Waltzing Matilda. The campaign will launch from Australia in early December with Sea Shepherd’s flagship Steve Irwin, which will be accompanied to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary by the new Ady Gil. Together, the ships and the volunteer crew will intervene in illegal Japanese whaling in Antarctica.
Due to its speed capabilities, up to 50 knots, Captain Paul Watson (Sea Shepherd President and Founder) intends to use the Ady Gil to intercept and physically block the harpoon ships from illegally slaughtering whales.
Says Captain Watson, “We’re very excited that the Ady Gil will be joining the Steve Irwin in Antarctica this campaign. With these two ships, we will mount the most ambitious and aggressive effort to date to obstruct the slaughter of the whales in the Southern Ocean.”
Says Chuck Swift, Deputy CEO in charge of ship’s operations, “The Ady Gil gives us the speed necessary to catch and stay with the Japanese whaling fleet. We are very optimistic that with these two ships, and some other surprises, we will shut down whaling in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary.”
Earthrace is an amazing powerboat that holds the record for a powerboat to circumnavigate the globe (60 days, 23 hours, 49 minutes), which was completed in June 2008. She now has a new mission. To work with Sea Shepherd on marine conservation. Future projects include tackling illegal shark finning in Galapagos, bluefin tuna poachers in the Mediterranean, and disrupting Japanese Whale operations in Antarctica.
Earthrace is on of the most amazing vessels ever built. She is a wavepiercer, and can submarine up to 7m (23ft) underwater. She can travel over 13,000 nautical miles (over half way around the planet) on one tank of fuel….And she runs 100% biodiesel made from sustainable sources.
An effective training for communities to exercise local governance by passing ordinances to protect their environments from being destroyed by outside corporations. This schooling has helped hundreds of towns and municipalities to take control of their communities to successfully resist corporate “personhood” by educating and uniting people into true democratic action. A tool for powerful activism.
The Daniel Pennock Democracy School is a stimulating and illuminating course that teaches citizens and activists how to reframe exhausting and often discouraging single issue work (such as opposing toxic dumps, quarries, factory farms, etc.) in a way that we can confront corporate control on a powerful single front: people’s constitutional rights.
Democracy School explores the limits of conventional regulatory organizing and offers a new organizing model that helps citizens confront the usurpation by corporations of the rights of communities, people, and the earth. Lectures cover the history of people’s movements and corporate power, and the dramatic recent organizing in Pennsylvania by communities confronting agribusiness, sewage sludge, and quarry corporations. Included with enrollment in the Democracy School is a 300 plus-page notebook of background reading material, and a copy of Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy. For a historical review of the Pennsylvania work through the end of 2003, see a feature article that appeared in Orion Magazine.
Created by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) and Richard Grossman, co-founder of the Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy (POCLAD), Democracy Schools were launched with five weekend sessions at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania in 2003. Since then, the number of schools has grown rapidly. In 2006, there are over a dozen locations across the country offering Democracy Schools, so peruse our list and find a school near you!
Sued by the forest, Should nature be able to take you to court?
Last February, the town of Shapleigh, Maine, population 2,326, passed an unusual ordinance. Like nearby towns, Shapleigh sought to protect its aquifers from the Nestle Corporation, which draws heavily on the region for its Poland Spring bottled water. Some Maine towns had acquiesced, others had protested, and one was locked in a protracted legal battle.
Shapleigh tried something new – a move at once humble in its method and audacious in its ambition. At a town meeting, residents voted, 114-66, to endow all of the town’s natural assets with legal rights: “Natural communities and ecosystems possess inalienable and fundamental rights to exist, flourish and naturally evolve within the Town of Shapleigh.” It further decreed that any town resident had “standing” to seek relief for damages caused to nature – permitting, for example, a lawsuit on behalf of a stream.
Ecuador‘s new constitution of 2008 is the first in the world to recognize legally enforceable Rights of Nature, or ecosystem rights.[10]
The borough of Tamaqua, Pennsylvania passed a law giving ecosystems legal rights. The ordinance establishes that the municipal government or any Tamaqua resident can file a lawsuit on behalf of the local ecosystem.[11] Other townships, such as Rush, followed suit and passed their own laws.[12]
This is part of a growing body of legal opinion proposing ‘wild law‘. Wild law, a term coined by Cormac Cullinan (a lawyer based in South Africa), would cover birds and animals, rivers and deserts.[13][14]
Ecuador Approves New Constitution: Voters Approve Rights of Nature
Ecuador Follows Lead of U.S. Communities: First Country in the World to Shift to Rights-Based Environmental Protection, Working With Legal Defense Fund
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By an overwhelming margin, the people of Ecuador today voted for a new constitution that is the first in the world to recognize legally enforceable Rights of Nature, or ecosystem rights.
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund is pioneering this work in the U.S., where it has assisted more than a dozen local municipalities with drafting and adopting local laws recognizing Rights of Nature.
Over the past year, the Legal Defense Fund was invited to assist the Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly to develop and draft provisions for the new constitution to put ecosystem rights directly into the Ecuadorian constitution. The elected Delegates to the Constituent Assembly requested that the Legal Defense Fund draft language based on ordinances developed and adopted by municipalities in the U.S.
“Ecuador is now the first country in the world to codify a new system of environmental protection based on rights,” stated Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.
“With this vote, the people of Ecuador are leading the way for countries around the world to fundamentally change how we protect nature,” added Mari Margil, Associate Director of the Legal Defense Fund.
Article 1 of the new “Rights for Nature” chapter of the Ecuador constitution reads: “Nature or Pachamama, where life is reproduced and exists, has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution. Every person, people, community or nationality, will be able to demand the recognitions of rights for nature before the public bodies.”
Battle for the Amazon: People vs the government
The largest indigenous movement in decades battles to save the Amazon Basin from oil exploitation Pt 1
Due to their default on the loans for Brazilia, the Brazilian government has relinquished control of the development of their Amazon Basin. The World Bank controls the exploitation of the Brazilian portion of the Basin.
VIDEO STATEMENT from anonymous activists: Douglas Coal Conveyor Sabotage Commentary from Mainshill Solidarity Camp and the Scottish Camp for Climate Action
By careful, non-violent direct-action, activists have drawn attention to the plight of the people and countryside who are suffering under the neglect of the felonous lord David Home.
Prince Charles has declared a “war” on climate change, and a world war style mobilisation. “Perhaps we should see this as a war we simply have to win – and in wartime it is remarkable how solutions can be found to challenges that were previously considered insolvable.”
In the 21st century non-violent direct-action spirit of Black Douglas and William Wallace, the Scottish Camp for Climate Action and Mainshill Solidarity Camp are answering the call by Prince Charles and other world leaders for mobilisation to fight the climate war.
The activists have mobilised like true patriots – educating and informing through non-violent direct-action – while The Ghost Lord David Home has become the climate war enemy.
Chief amongst the local and global climate war enemies are the felonous lord David Home.
David Home has triggered the ancient laws of forfeiture; to titles, estates and property. For treasonous actions against the people, country, earth and future. Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911 Edition
When Prince Charles and other royals visit David Home this week for the start of the hunting season, will Prince Charles threaten David Home with the forfeiture for treason ? To avoid the status of felonous lord, Prince Charles ought instruct David Home to resign his peerage and seek election in the House of Commons as did David Home’s Prime Minister father.
David Cameron, related to royalty, son of a Scottish financier and leader of The Conservative Party should be accept environment advisor Zac Goldsmiths advice and seek David Home to return Mainshill to the people and lands of Douglasdale and cease further open-cast mining on his estates.
The Scottish government boasts of stringent targets to cuts emissions while squeezing North Sea oil reserves and approving new opencast coal mines. No wonder people are taking into their own hands to highlight this hypocrisy.
But while the government undermines its own targets, some people in Scotland are putting its climate change policy into effect. The Scottish camp for climate action has declared war on opencast coalmining. Yesterday people associated with it did what the government should have done years ago, and cut the conveyor belt used to carry coal from the Glentaggart pit in Lanarkshire to the local rail terminal.”
QUESTIONS about David Alexander Cospatrick Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home
Should The Ghost Lord be stripped of his titles, lose his estates, and go to jail for crimes against humanity, nature, the future ? by ancient laws of forfeiture Lord Home may be a felonous Lord as he is destroying the aristocratic lands, the health and welfare of his vassals (the people of Douglas), the future of the people of the United Kingdom through the widely recognised dangers of abrupt climate change ?
Forfeiture: is there a case for forfeiture of Lord Home’s titles, property and freedom for the high treason he is committing against the common people of his feudal fief, which by morality and law he is lord and protector
Will Prince Charles – the green and organic prince – continue to bank and socialise with a man that prefers profit over his people, his lands and his aristocratic responsibilities ?
Will Lord Home follow the foot-steps of his father and resign his titles and seek election for public office, or he far too unpopular for such a democratic action ? is David Home not only shaming Black Douglas but also the democratic credentials of his father ?
would his ancestors be turning in there graves? Would Black Douglas and Robert the Bruce be David Home’s ancestors be turning in their graves in the church in Douglas if they knew what Lord Home is doing to the good people and place of Douglas today ?
The ascendent Conservative’s have been winning local election in the south of the UK in England under the leadership of David Cameron with The Ecologist’s Zac Goldsmith as environmental advisor. Will Conservative Leader David Cameron, whose father was a Scottish financier continue to welcome Lord Home in the Conservative Party ? The Conservatives have been winning local council elections with a platform of Vote Blue Go Green. Will Zac Goldsmith of The Ecologist advise The Conservative’s to force Lord Home to reverse his decision to continue and expand open-cut coal mining ? How can the Scottish Conservatives expect to win more Scottish seats in the next general election when Lord Home continues to make a mockery of the Vote Blue Go Green platform ? According to Margaret Thatcher, New Labor was her greatest achievement, will the probable Conservative government continue and expand the corruption, hypocrisy
Lord Home is son of former Conservative Party Prime Minister and Conservative Party Life Peer in the House of Lords. The Times of London is investigating House of Lords expenses scandals and serious questions are being raised about suppressed investigations in Lord Homes.
Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince William are regular visitors to Lord Homes estate in Douglas for shooting and “conservation”. Visits to open-cast coal mines are not provided to blood-sport visitors at David Home’s estates.
Los Angeles, CA- At a fundraising event in Los Angeles on Saturday, October 17th, 2009, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society unveiled their newest ocean defense vessel: the Ady Gil. The vessel, previously known as the Earthrace, is a fast, futuristic looking trimaran that recently set the world record for global circumnavigation. The vessel renaming reflects the ship’s benefactor, Ady Gil, who helped acquire the vessel.
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