This article by Alleen Brown was published in The Intercept on December 13th, 2019. A brief commentary by Paul Cienfuegos, Founder and Director of Community Rights US: Why do virtually all of our progressive social change movements, including the newly potent youth-led climate movements, have such a hard time thinking clearly about corporate funding of [...]
This article was recently posted at the Bioneer's website. "As the original caretakers of the land, Indigenous Peoples have been on the frontlines of environmental justice movements, not only to protect their own communities, but also to preserve humanity’s harmony with the Earth. Bioneers is dedicated to uplifting the work, wisdom and voices of Indigenous [...]
This article by Barbara Peterson was published in New Hampshire Citizen Action News on November 19, 2019. From Ursula K. Le Guin’s short story, The One’s Who Walk Away from Omelas, we are shown how we accept, with relatively little resistance, that certain people must inevitably suffer from the societal systems so many of us [...]
This article by Max Wilbert was published by Deep Green Resistance News Service on November 1st, 2019. As the world moves further into a state of climate crisis, it’s imperative that we study and critique the strategies being proposed to address greenhouse gas emissions, and develop our own strategies based on rigorous assessment of their [...]
This article by Simon Davis-Cohen was published in the Scalawag on November 13, 2019. Last week’s elections delivered an overwhelming victory for progressives in Virginia, where Democrats solidified a majority in the General Assembly and candidates in local races followed suit. In Charlottesville, where the deadly white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally took place two [...]
Thom Hartmann on why we should use constitutional solutions to rescue our democracy from the agendas of billionaires and corporations. This excerpt by Thom Hartmann was published in Yes! magazine on November 1st, 2019. There were those among the founders and framers of the Constitution who didn’t mean for the Court to have as much [...]
This article about state preemption and the political forces behind it was published on Ballotpedia Preemption occurs when law at a higher level of government is used to overrule authority at a lower level. State law can be used to preempt local ordinances, and federal law can be used to preempt state law. This page [...]
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, [...]
Even though George Monbiot doesn't mention Community Rights in this recently published and powerful 15 minute video, I see a connection. He makes the point that facts and information are important, but what is more important and powerful are stories. Muriel Rukeyser once said, "The Universe is made of stories, not atoms. Throughout history one collective [...]
This article by Jim Saunders was published in the Orlando Weekly on July 29th, 2019. State governments don't just stop at preempting gun laws. For instance, back in 2014, the citizens of Denton, Texas banned hydraulic fracturing within its city limits. Months later the State of Texas stepped in and overruled the local law with [...]
