Workshop: Practical Grassroots Campaign Strategy for the Rights of Nature

CDER Executive Director Mari Margil to lead a workshop at Univ. of British Columbia, Allard School of Law

On Friday, May 6, 2022, Mari Margil will be in Vancouver, Canada, to lead an in-person rights of nature training workshop in partnership with the Centre for Law and the Environment (CLE) and the Sustainability Hub at the University of British Columbia, on the traditional ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nation.

The workshop is the capstone of a series of webinars on legal recognition for non-human relatives hosted by the CLE, featuring a mix of Indigenous and non-Indigenous speakers. The workshop will provide a full day of hands-on training in grassroots campaign strategy for participants who want to take action to advance legal recognition for non-human relations in their own communities.

Participants will receive training materials they can take home. They will explore past successes and failures, campaign goals and tactics, legal options for recognizing non-human relations, interactions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities, and other issues. They will also have the opportunity to brainstorm and receive feedback on their own efforts to enact or strengthen laws to respect and protect non-human relations.

Registration is open to anyone with an interest in the subject. Spaces are limited. Cost is CAD$100 for private sector participants, PWYC for everyone else. A small number of travel subsidies are available for Indigenous and civil society participants.

The workshop will be preceded the day before (May 5) with some special, optional, outdoor activities organized by the UBC Sustainability Hub to explore Indigenous ways of knowing and relating to nature. This side event is free of charge and will require separate registration.