Doris Ragettli, Switzerland:

Co-Founder of Rights Of Mother Earth with Robin Milam. 1991-2004 co-accountable for The Hunger Project,Switzerland. 1991-1995 in charge of Youth Ending Hunger Switzerland. 1991 lead a successful grassroots campaign for the signing and implementation of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child by all nations, for Switzerland. 1994-2001 Co-founder of Cyclists Ending Hunger, lead 7 cross USA bicycle rides in support of poverty and hunger eradication programs. Since 1991 Flight Attendant for Swiss Intl. Airlines.

Robin Milam, USA:

Administrative Director, Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature.  My passion is my love of nature, the well-being of our planet, and transforming our relationship with ourselves and our planet.  Through The Pachamama Alliance, I lead life altering journeys to the remote, pristine rainforests of Ecuador. Participating in the 2010 People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Nature in Cochabamba, Bolivia ignited Rights of Nature is my life work.  I am proud to be co-founder with Doris of the Rights of Mother Earth campaign. I took our signature campaign and advocated for Rights of Nature at COP17 in Durban, South Africa.

Vandana Shiva, a prominent global advocate for Rights of Mother Earth, is a philosopher, environmental activist, and eco feminist. Shiva, currently based in Delhi, has authored more than 20 books and over 500 papers in leading scientific and technical journals. She was trained as a physicist and received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, in 1978 with the doctoral dissertation “Hidden variables and locality in quantum theory.”

She is the founder of Navdanya, a women centered movement for the protection of biological and cultural diversity.  Navdanya started the Earth democracy movement in India, which provides an alternative worldview in which humans are embedded in the Earth Family, we are connected to each other through love, compassion, not hatred and violence and ecological responsibility and economic justice replaces greed, consumerism and competition as objectives of human life.

She was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1993.

Vandana Shiva and Navdanya have collected over 25,000 signatures for the Rights of Mother Earth campaign.

Alexandra Postelnicu, Romania:

In order to heal the relationship with Mother Earth, we have to awaken to the truth that Mother Earth is not the environment.

Awakening to the right view means going beyond the dualistic view of separateness and realizing our INTER-CONNECTIVENESS: we are the earth, and the earth is us. So, taking care of Mother Earth, means taking care of us. And the healing of the Mother Earth is the healing of the people. When we are able to touch the Earth, and feel our oneness with it, then the true love and adoration that is needed is going to flourish so that we can take care of Mother Earth properly.

Andrei Iuroaia, Romania:

I believe that we need to respect nature if we believe in respecting ourselves and each other! My vision of the world is one in which we find peace and harmony by remembering that we are a part of nature and that it can provide us with everything each of us may need for a fulfilling and meaningful life. The essential shift is changing our worldviews then we may change laws and policies. I will change the world by spreading the word.

Lili David, Romania

I love the beauty of nature and the big family made up of all the diversity of life. We can choose to live by a new philosophy, one that is loving towards nature, and we may and up nurturing more love for all of us. Big ideas come from collective wisdom, so I believe in the power of a grassroots movement for protecting the rights of nature. I want to communicate and appeal to our collective wisdom for change.

With my political work and as a student I try to support the campaign from another side. Who if not young people will support a petition saving the world of their future and who if not politicians should start thinking and working about longterm solutions?

Dee Lourens is a Director, Cinemaphotographer and Writer. She has produced films throughout Africa and Europe and currently specializing in Long Format Documentary (www.een2dee.co.za/documentary). She is known for her specific visual style, always striving to elevate even the grimmest of subject matter to the level of visual poetry, a philosophy that she holds dear. Dee and her team started the Earth Junkies Project in 2010 and develops the ‘First Global Children’s Charter for the Rights for Mother Earth’. The Earth Junkies Team believes that the biggest problem in Climate Change is us humans becoming disconnected and that if there is any way we can discover that and explore this powerfully is to work with children.

www.earthjunkiesproject.org

I am doing mobilization and sensitization of the importance of caring for nature and advocacy of nature!!!