Fearing a blue wave in November, businesses are getting more ambitious in fighting progressive reforms. This article by Micheal Hobbes was published in the Huffington Post on October 1st, 2018. Ballot measures have produced a wave of ambitious progressive reforms in recent years, from legalizing marijuana to expanding voting rights to granting paid family leave. [...]
The subversion of democracy was the explicit intent of the framers. This Op-ed Meagan Day and Bhaskar Sunkara appeared in The New York Times, August 9th, 2918. Consider a few facts: Donald Trump is in the White House, despite winning almost three million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton. The Senate, the country’s most powerful legislative [...]
“The arrogance of the human race – that we can continue to exhaust the planet that gives us life while avoiding any adverse consequences to our own survival – lies at the base of our current tragedy. The belief that endless economic growth is not only possible, but necessary for our daily lives, serves at [...]
Stopping the Martin Marietta gravel mine, the expansion of Gross Dam, and ending fossil fuel extraction by a direct fight against corporate power. This blog post by Cliff Willmeng appeared on the Willmeng For Boulder County Commissioner website, July 17, 2018. All of these projects share a conflict regarding local authority nearly identical to the [...]
A leading expert said tensions have never been higher between the different levels of government, thanks in part to preemptive legislation in various policy areas. This article by Chris Teale appeared in Smart Cities Dive, July 2nd, 2018. At a Washington, DC event in May, Harvard Kennedy School professor and former Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith [...]
Originally published in QZ.com by Michael J Coren on May 18, 2018. Community Rights US Founding Director Paul Cienfuegos was quite intrigued by this article but found it substantially wanting in one particular way. The author totally missed the significant issue of how large business corporations have entirely eclipsed our governance structures and have become [...]
Recently Forest Jahnke, a Community Rights US (CRUS) Advisory Board member, received a request from Public Citizen to sign an online petition to tell the Cooke Corporation to stand down on its threat to a Washington State Environmental Law. Below is what Forest had to say about it from a Community Rights perspective, and a [...]
The city wants to tax large corporations to pay for homeless housing, but Jeff Bezos isn’t pleased. This article by Michael Hobbes appeared in the Huffington Post, May 12th, 2018. Brief commentary by Community Rights US Director and Founder Paul Cienfuegos: Corporate boards of directors are holding citizens hostage all over the US and around the [...]
This article by Timothy Snyder appeared in The Guardian, April 28th, 2018. Historically, immigrants were given special rights to take Native land. If Trump says we are no longer a nation of immigrants, that has consequences Brief commentary by Paul Cienfuegos, one of the founders and directors of Community Rights US (CRUS): We the People are [...]
This article by Jess Zimbabwe appeared in Cities Speak, April 20th, 2018. A brief commentary by Community Rights US media team Curt Hubatch: This article mentions there's "a surging nationwide preemption battle" that "is uniquely chilling local democracy." After reading this, and as I made my way through the rest of this article, I was [...]
