Documents Illustrating Single-Issue Campaigns Reframed through a Community Rights Lens

A Rights-Based Draft Sanctuary City Law

Growing numbers of communities in the U.S. are responding to Donald Trump’s attack on “undocumented” human beings by seeking to offer sanctuary to those being targeted. These communities recognize that the Declaration of Independence asserts we are all born equal and with certain unalienable rights. They understand the Declaration was written prior to the creation [...]

We the People Standing Together to Protect Our Climate: Lessons From the Community Rights Movement

An original speech by Paul Cienfuegos - presented in Minneapolis on February 23, 2015. Paul used Naomi Klein's extraordinary book, This Changes Everything, as the jumping off point for his groundbreaking speech, proposing the Community Rights strategy as the critical missing piece in Naomi's book. In fact, Naomi's vision begs for a Community Rights solution, [...]

Towards a county-wide uprising of citizens asserting our authority to govern ourselves by wresting control of land use decision-making away from Maxxam Corporation and putting it in the hands of the people where it rightfully belongs…

This is the third draft of one of many draft documents produced by the Steering Committee of 'The Democratic Logging Project' in Humboldt County, California - which never made it to public launch for lack of a critical mass of people, but which nonetheless engendered more than a year's worth of very fine small group [...]

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