Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse speaks with the late award-winning author, barrister and ecocide law expert Polly Higgins (d. April 2019). This is an excerpt from the hour long program, First Voices.

Since stepping down from her legal practice as a court advocate, Polly had devoted her time to one client, Mother Earth. Internationally, Polly was the lead advocate for and expert on ecocide crime, the award-winning author of "Eradicating Ecocide: Laws and Governance to Prevent the Destruction of our Planet," creator of the first ever non-commercial global trust fund for Earth Protectors, generator of change-making Earth protecting laws, and a driving force behind the expansion of a rights-based narrative towards a duties and responsibilities based governance model.

Polly was the co-founder of the non-profit Ecological Defence Integrity, based in Stroud, UK. The organization was established in response to the recognition that new law for the Earth requires a far wider base of support than most governments will provide. Ecological Defence Integrity administers "Mission Lifeforce," an unprecedented global funding platform created to fund ecocide law.

Polly has been hailed as one of the World's Top 10 Visionary Thinkers by the Ecologist and celebrated as The Planet's Lawyer by the 2010 Change Awards. Founder of the Earth Law Alliance and The Earth Community Trust, she garnered a number of awards for her work advocating for a law of Ecocide. More about Polly can be found at www.pollyhiggins.com.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Summary: Representatives of activist Indigenous Brazilian groups concerned about the "Uncontacted People," Indigenous people living in protected areas of the Brazilian Rainforest, have come to the USA to ask Amercians to understand that these protected people are critically endangered, as the Rainforest is attacked by Agi-Industry, Mining, and the current president of Brazil, who wants to open up these areas for profit, despite constitutional protections against this. Featured speakers/guests: Luiz Henrique Eloy Amado, attorney visiting from Brazil, who works with activist groups and indigenous tribes, describes in detail what is happening and the activism being mobilized by "modernized" indigenous peole in Brazil, to protect the "uncontacted People."

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.