Shannon Biggs

Shannon Biggs is director of the community rights program at Global Exchange.

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Thursday, May 30, 2013
Beyond Personhood: Why Corporations Love the Constitution More Than You do
What do you love about the U.S. Constitution?
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Friday, April 22, 2011
On Earth Day, Recognize the Rights of Mother Earth
This Earth Day, we need to start envisioning a future based not on exploiting nature but on recognizing that nature has inherent rights. Ironically, this week also marks the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill, the worst one in U.S. history. Beyond headline-grabbing catastrophes, every day we dump 2 million tons of toxic waste into the world’s water, the equivalent of the weight of the entire human population. Every day we literally blow the tops off of mountains to release hidden coal.
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Sunday, December 12, 2010
We Need 1,000 Cochabambas
Months before civil society boarded planes or hopped on buses and bikes destined for Cancun (yes, we met up with a small contingent of cyclists arriving from West Virginia) — it was clear that we weren’t really very welcome.
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