PICTURING THE RIGHTS OF THE RIVER CAM
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Declaration of the rights of the River Cam: the movie!
Kay Goodridge has made a beautiful and moving film of the declaration of the rights of the River Cam and our celebrations of it.
An early poem for the Cam
Antony Carpen, community historian has dug up a poem about the Cam from the late 18th Century. Antony says: "A very old poem published in one of Cambridge’s earliest newspapers, the Cambridge Intelligencer was a short-lived radical newspaper active at the very end of the 18th Century. I spotted this poem about the River Cam in it, which will be of interest to today’s generation of residents and campaigners who very recently gathered to declare the Rights of the River Cam in June 2021."
A Poem for the Declaration of the Rights of the River Cam June 21st 2021 from Hannah Copley
Hannah Charlotte Copley is a local doctor, climate activist, poet and Green Party City Councillor, who recognises the climate and ecological emergencies as the greatest impending threat to human health the world faces today. She wrote this spoken word poem for the Friends of the Cam Declaration of the Rights of the River Cam to express her feelings about inaction in the face of climate breakdown.
Declaration of the Rights of the River Cam 21st June 2020
A collection of photographs, courtesy of Jane Williams, commemorating our Declaration of the Rights of the River Cam, the first river in the UK to have its rights declared.
Midsummer - June 21st - Celebration of the River Cam and Ceremony to Declare its Rights
On the Midsummer's eve, 21st June at 6pm, 90 people read out together the declaration of the rights of the River Cam, writes Tony Booth.
Recognising Nature Rights
Barrister and activist, Paul Powlesland, presents the argument for legal recognition of the rights of nature, and the rights of rivers.
The Oxcam Arc with David Rogers
"The OxCam Arc: An Environmental Catastrophe"
Video preesntation by with Professor David Rogers
How to Save the Cam with Kim Wilkie
Video with probably Britain's best known landscape architect, Kim Wilkie
Save the Cam with Feargal Sharkey
Feargal Sharkey, ex Undertones singer turned campaigner, gives a hard hitting presentation on what has gone wrong with our rivers, and particularly the globally rare chalk streams such as the River Cam.
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