Calling all Water Protectors!

Join us to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline in North Carolina

Stand with us against this dirty, fracked methane gas pipeline!  We demand that Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) polluters be held accountable for their violations of human and nature’s rights, destruction and desecration of sacred sites, mountains, and rivers, and provide clean-up costs for all impacted residents and ecosystems of West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina. We have many ways to stand together to stop the MVP, including recognizing legal Rights of Rivers.

Join us for the Yesah Tribunal to understand how the pipeline is destroying the health of rivers and waterways, and how we can take powerful next steps together including passing laws to elevate the natural world from being seen in the law as merely property for profit to a rights-bearing entity that supports life!

During this historic, Indigenous-led tribunal, attendees will witness testimony on the violations perpetrated by MVP, and a powerful lineup of judges will issue a ruling. The day-long event will be livestreamed.

The Rights of Nature—including the Rights of Rivers—is the fastest growing environmental justice movement in the world with laws in over 30 countries. Recognizing that Nature has the right to exist, evolve and carry on its vital cycles free from destructive projects like pipelines places legal and enforceable obligations on humans to live within the boundaries of the natural world.

More than just a legal construct, this Indigenous-led movement is working to bring ancestral wisdom, traditional ecological knowledge, modern science and law together to shift how we as humans live.

Over the past few years, 7 Directions of Service and their partners have been working to draft and pass a state Bill that would recognize the Rights of the Haw River that could stop destructive projects like the MVP from moving forward.

WAYS TO TAKE ACTION:

• Be a part of the tribunal in person
• Learn more about Indigenous Rights of Nature
• Learn more about global Rights of Nature tribunals
• Watch the tribunal on livestream on social media
• Donate to the 7DS Yesah Tribunal Fundraiser
• Sign the petition to help advance Rights of Nature laws in the NC General Assembly!