Community rights educator Paul Cienfuegos reads his inspiring short declaration inspired by Joanna Macy’s notion of “The Great Turning,” a total change in how we govern ourselves.
Paul writes, “The Community Rights movement has been spreading across the United States — one city, town and county at a time. Since 1999, 200 communities have passed new-paradigm laws that strip corporations of all of their so-called constitutional “rights”, ban a variety of corporate activities which are fully legal but considered harmful by the local residents, and enshrine the inherent right of a community to govern itself. These laws are a direct challenge to a variety of structures of law that have made it literally illegal for local communities to protect their own health and welfare. Thus, each of these local ordinances is in itself an act of municipal civil disobedience.”
Watch the 6-minute video HERE.
Read the full text of Paul’s Declaration HERE.