Environmental activists turn to local organizing to fight corporate interests
This original article by Stephen Quirke appeared in, Street Roots News on May 26, 2017
In the battle to protect the environment, activists are increasingly turning to a model of local organizing that mixes face-to-face democracy with the power to create law. Not everyone is happy with that. Two recent law-making initiatives on the Oregon coast provide a striking case in point: Measures 6-162 in Coos County, and Measure 21-177 in Lincoln County. MORE…