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Rights of the River: Peace, Protection and Personhood<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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When : March 24, 2024, 3-5 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n

Where : online or in person at Centre Wakefield La P\u00eache<\/strong><\/p>\n

What:\u00a0 Screening of the Film \u201cI am the Magpie River\u201d\u00a0 followed by panel discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n

In celebration of World Water Day, Friends of the Gatineau River and Transition \u00e9cologique La P\u00eache Coalition for a Green New Deal organised a screening of the documentary film, \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>I am the Magpie River<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Breathtaking in its cinematography, <\/span>I am the Mapgie River<\/span><\/i>, is produced by award-winning documentary filmmaker, Susan Fleming<\/span>, Q Films Inc., and Terre Innue Productions Inc..<\/span>\u00a0 Stunning photography captures the strength, beauty and peace of the Magpie River in northern Quebec and how the Innu community, who have always believed that rivers are a living spirit,\u00a0 were determined to protect it by declaring its legal personhood.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Legal personhood means, in law \u2026 that we cannot destroy [the ecosystem]. That it’s not an object to exploit, but a person to protect,\u00a0\u00bb says Yenny Vega C\u00e1rdenas, lawyer and president of the International Observatory on the Rights of Nature, who took on the case of protecting the Magpie River. This approach to conservation falls under the legal framework of the rights of nature, which recognizes that natural phenomena, like rivers and forests, have the intrinsic right to exist outside of their relationship to humans.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The film was followed by an illustrious panel discussing the legal rights of a river; how the Magpie River was granted personhood and Gilbert Whiteduck\u2019s proposition to obtain legal rights for the Gatineau River and the forming of the Tenagadino Alliance.\u00a0 <\/span>Panelists included:<\/span><\/p>\n