Patrick Farnsworth interviews Will Falk about his newly released book "How Dams Fall" and other essential Community Rights topics on his Last Born in the Wilderness podcast. It was published on July 29th, 2019. Below is the description of the interview. In this episode I speak with lawyer and radical environmental activist Will Falk. In [...]
Jane Anne Morris would have been 66 years old today. This memoriam to her life and groundbreaking work in what we now call the Community Rights movement was posted in July 2019 on the Program on Corporations Law and Democracy's (POCLAD) website. We at Community Rights US highly recommend reading anything by JAM. Her writing [...]
Derrick Jensen interviews Ben Price, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund's (CELDF) national organizing director, about his newly published book, "How Wealth Rules the World: Saving our Communities and Freedoms from the Dictatorship of Property." on June 2nd, 2019. This 53 minute interview can be listened to and downloaded HERE and HERE. A bit about [...]
This press release was released by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund on May 21, 2019. Crackdowns on local democracy are accelerating, as corporate and state interests continue efforts to repress social movements. In this well-timed book, How Wealth Rules the World, Ben Price presciently reveals structures of power and law that facilitate blatant corporate supremacy in [...]
As I travel around the country leading Community Rights workshops, I constantly have to remind the mostly progressive audiences I meet with that it’s not just Republican-controlled state legislatures that are constantly trying to stop local governments from exercising any kind of relevant law-making. In my state of Oregon, which has a Democrat supermajority in [...]
This news story was published on Democracy Now's website on May 8th, 2019. A brief commentary by Paul Cienfuegos, Community Rights US Founder and Director: We are the only nation with a modern constitution in the entire world that does not guarantee equal rights for men and women. Yet, corporations have been gaining constitutional rights [...]
Derrick Jensen interviews Thomas Linzey for the seventh time on Resistance Radio. This interview happened on April 21st, 2019. In this interview they talk about the Lake Erie Bill of Rights that was recently passed in Toledo, Ohio; the Rights of Nature, and other topics concerning Community Rights. This 51 minute interview can be listened [...]
This article by Sean Butler and Will Falk was published in Voices for Biodiversity on April 3rd, 2019. On December 18, 2018, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Wild Fish Conservancy threatened the Trump administration with a lawsuit under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) for allowing salmon fisheries to take too many salmon, which the critically [...]
This original essay was written by Paul Cienfuegos, our Founding Director, in direct response to all of the progressive cheerleading that has been going on across the indy media for the past few days since Amazon Corp's directors pulled out of their plans to build a second HQ in New York City. His essay was [...]
Recently Community Rights US Director and Founder Paul Cienfuegos attended the 2019 Farmers Union Convention in Appleton, Wisconsin held January 25-27. While there he had the opportunity to watch and listen to a panel discussion about monopolies, antitrust legislation, and how they affect farmers. After the convention a 54 minute video of the panel discussion was [...]
