Choirs for Ecocide Law

Choirs for Ecocide Law This artistic project began with a vision to raise awareness of a powerful idea - new law for Nature,
To criminalize Ecocide internationally.

Ecocide: causing severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment Choirs for Ecocide Law - project started of the will to raise the awareness of this new powerful law-proposal, to let people know about it and start taking actions to demand the decision-makers (Governments of UN countries) to vote towards criminalizing ECOCIDE internationally. Choirs for Ecocide Law provides a

sixty minute concert program Let´s change the rules!, which is now ready to be rehearsed and performed by your choir – for free. The concert package includes:
-15 songs by composers from different cultures
-Scores in three different forms
-Rehearsing tracks and audible material
-Interactive rehearsal process guidelines
-Concert production ideas and proposals
-Stage design script
-Media tools

The Core Team:
Merzi Rajala (Fin) - artistic director
Kirsi Kaunismäki - Suhonen (Fin) - project executive
Peder Karlsson (Swe) - project executive

How do I join and get access to all this? After signing a participation agreement, you and your choir can get the score PDFs and rehearsal files (mp3) through the app ChoirMate, or - if you prefer, you can download all materials yourself from our web-page www.stopecocide.earth/choirs folder and distribute among your choir singers. Something to know about Ecocide Law proposal? ECOCIDE means mass damage and destruction of ecosystems. Ecocide Law will make it a criminal offense to carry out reckless acts likely to cause serious harm to the environment. Decision makers responsible for oil spills, chemical disasters and massive plastic pollution, for example, will face legal action and may even face prison terms. Ecocide Law creates genuine motivation for positive change and innovation. It is the legal framework that investors, insurance companies and the world’s most polluting companies need – in order to accelerate their transition to green business models.

11/06/2026

Hope, is song nr 10 in Let´s Change the Rules concert concept.

This song was composed to Emily Dickinsons poem Hope by Merzi Rajala,
Choirs for Ecocide Law artistic director, to spread hope and to call everyone to take actions towards the new law.
This beautiful version of the song is made by University of Applied Sciences Metropolia students in Finland, Santeri Orkas and Anna Tastula

How would your version with your group or choir sound in the Let´s Change the Rules concert?

https://www.stopecocide.earth/choirs


04/06/2026

Did you already see this?
A version of song nr 14. Ask Not by Peder Karlsson. Talented students of University of applied sciences, Metropolia Helsinki made it. It is a reference to iconic music video of Darude in year 2000. Let´s Change the Rules - concert materials can be performed in as many ways as there are performers. What is your version like?

Song 14. Ask Not,
Music & Lyrics Peder KarlssonPeder Karlsson
version:
arrangement, vocals, vocals production: Aamu Maunuvaara
Music production, mixing, mastering:
Touko Kinnunen

Actors: Touko Kinnunen, Ronja Saastamoinen, Aino Salonen, Emma Vähätalo
Writer, director: Joonas Pesu
Cinematography, color editing: Onni Aalto
Editor: Jere Piirainen
Assistant director: Jooa Kaukonen
Thanks: Reactor films❤️


Thank you Suomen Kulttuurirahasto for the grant, supporting Choirs for Ecocide Law Team trip to Macau, World Symposium o...
03/06/2026

Thank you Suomen Kulttuurirahasto for the grant, supporting Choirs for Ecocide Law Team trip to Macau, World Symposium of Choral Music to present the project world wide in August 2026.
This voluntary work based project could not happen without support❣️




Celebrating the concert and Ecocide Law work in France! Concert in France today❣️❣️❣️ Stop Ecocide en Français
30/05/2026

Celebrating the concert and Ecocide Law work in France!
Concert in France today❣️❣️❣️


Stop Ecocide en Français

Tomorrow - second time in France - Choirs for Ecocide Law. Merci❣️❣️❣️
29/05/2026

Tomorrow - second time in France - Choirs for Ecocide Law. Merci❣️❣️❣️


The piece We Used to Know is a song composed by Astrid Vang Pedersen for the concert Let’s Change the Rules. The piece i...
26/05/2026

The piece We Used to Know is a song composed by Astrid Vang Pedersen for the concert Let’s Change the Rules. The piece incorporates elements from Song No. 1, Joik (composer Simon Issát Marainen).
The message of the song, “we used to know,” reflects a sense of lost wisdom—the human ability to live in balance as part of nature, a capacity we once possessed. Through its connection to Joik, the song seeks to highlight the wisdom of Indigenous peoples and the skills and traditions they have preserved, presenting them as an important source of insight for people today.

Listen to the fantastic version of song nr 6, with Simon Issát Marainen, EllyEve, Axel Berntzon and the great band led by Josef Sjöblom

Let´s Change the Rules concert materials —a collection of 15 songs
—are available free of charge to all singers and choirs who wish to raise awareness, through singing, about bringing ecocide under international criminal law.

The piece We Used to Know is a song composed by Astrid Vang Pedersen for the concert Let’s Change the Rules. The piece incorporates elements from Song No. 1,...

In the series of presenting diverse versions of making the songs of the concert concept we now present the version of Le...
24/05/2026

In the series of presenting diverse versions of making the songs of the concert concept we now present the version of
Let´s Chanhe the Rules concert song nr 14, ASK NOT, <
composed by Peder Karlsson, as performed recently in Sweden, Umeå by Vokalensemblen Alma, Josef Sjöblom and the band, and the whole ensemble of all choirs.




End Ecocide Sweden
Stop Ecocide International
European Choral Association

”Ask not what a river can do for you. Ask what you can do for the river.Ask not what the planet can do for you. Ask what you can do for the planet.” This son...

Check out the fantastic version of Song of Desperation, the 3rd song in Let´s Change the Rules concert in Umeå 10.5. Her...
22/05/2026

Check out the fantastic version of Song of Desperation, the 3rd song in Let´s Change the Rules concert in Umeå 10.5.
Here in Umeå version the song is performed with fantastic band led by Josef Sjöblom and amazing soloists: Elin EllyEve Svensson and Berntzon.



End Ecocide Sweden
European Choral Association
ChoirMate
International Federation for Choral Music IFCM
"Stop Ecocide International

SONG OF DESPERATION, composer Geneviewe Andersenas performed in Le...

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