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Community Rights Papers: An ongoing series of original reproducible essays

Community Rights Papers: An ongoing series of original reproducible essays Community Rights 2017-04-04T00:06:03+00:00

The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund produces an ongoing series of reproducible (pdf) essays titled ‘Community Rights Papers’. Some of them are also available in longer formats with additional graphics. All are linked below. We will be updating this page periodically as additional essays are published.

#1: The Spirit of ’73 and the Right to Local Self-Government
* As PDF
* As lengthy doc with graphics
#2: A Celebration of NIMBY: “Not in my backyard…not in ANY backyard!” 
* As PDF
#3: Firing Big Green 
* As PDF
#4: American Independence & the Community Rights Movement
* As PDF
#5: The Fickleness of Democracy: The Empty Barricades of Citizens United
* As PDF
#6: The Myth of Community Rights
* As PDF
#7: Why Corporate “Rights” Matter
* As PDF
#8: A Touch of Class
* As PDF
* As lengthy doc with graphics
#9: Drowning the Clean Water Act in the Constitution’s Bathtub
* As PDF
* As lengthy doc with graphics
#10: Paradise Lost
* As PDF
* As lengthy doc with graphics
#11: Slaves in All But Name
* As PDF
* As lengthy doc with graphics
#12: Preempting Democracy
* As PDF
* As lengthy doc with graphics
#13: Breaking the Planet
* As PDF
* As lengthy doc with graphics
#14: Democratic Rights Matter
* As lengthy doc with graphics
#15: Stopping Climate Change: The Slow Train to Nowhere
* As lengthy doc with graphics

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