This informative and empowering article by Paul Cienfuegos, Community Rights US Founder and Director, was published in our February newsletter. After many months of behind the scenes intensive work, we are proudly announcing that we have just released our new Community Rights ordinance which entirely bans any corporate 5G wireless internet in a town, city or county. [...]
A Rights-Based Ordinance to Protect the Health, Safety, and Welfare of Residents of [Town or County Name], [State Name] By Establishing A Bill of Rights; By Recognizing the Right to A Sustainable Digital Infrastructure, and By Prohibiting the Siting of High Frequency 5G Wireless** Projects That Violate the People’s Right to A Sustainable Digital Infrastructure. [...]
This opportunity to purchase Rebelling Against The Corporate State: Forging a Community Rights Movement at a very reasonable price is being offered by The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund through the month of December! I turn to this book often when I'm looking to be inspired and seek clarity on the vision behind the Community [...]
This blog post by Barb Lucia was posted on the Pennsylvania Community Rights Network's (PACRN) website on October 16, 2019. I was simply a resident in the West Side neighborhood of the City of Warren, not involved in any political action, until 8 years ago when we learned through a reporter’s “leak” of a “secret” [...]
Reflections on Community Rights from Rural America is a monthly column by CR activist and organizer Curt Hubatch. Curt is an unschooling father of two young children and one young adult. Currently he works as a substitute rural letter carrier for the USPS. He lives in a cordwood house that he built with his wife, [...]
This article was written and published by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund on October 23, 2019. Since its inception, a state-wide movement in Ohio has faced a state and corporate attack that amounts to concerted opposition from all branches of state government, corporate lobbies, private law firms, and both political parties. The entire repressive [...]
This article by the Greg Coleridge was published on the Program on Corporations Law and Democracy's (POCLAD) website in October of 2019. Move to Amend recently issued a series of written documents detailing the many constitutional rights awarded to corporations by the Supreme Court. The series, Corporate Hijacking of the U.S. Constitution , includes a four-page [...]
Around the world, a movement is gaining momentum that grants legal rights to natural phenomena, including rivers, lakes and mountains. Robert Macfarlane investigates the rise of the new animism This article by Robert Macfarlane appeared in The Guardian on November 2nd, 2019. On 26 February 2019, a lake became human. For years, Lake Erie – the southernmost [...]
What follows is An Open Letter to Greta Thunberg. Do you know someone who might be able to get this into her hands? Or to local or national leaders of the Sunrise Movement, or to Naomi Klein or Bill McKibben? Since we are all only removed by a few degrees of separation, we present a [...]
Reflections on Community Rights from Rural America is a monthly column by CR activist and organizer Curt Hubatch. Curt is an unschooling father of two young children and one young adult. Currently he works as a substitute rural letter carrier for the USPS. He lives in a cordwood house that he built with his wife, [...]
