This article by Sharon Lerner appeared in The Intercept on September 15th, 2018.

Brief commentary by Community Rights US Media Team member Curt Hubatch: It’s no wonder, after reading the first two paragraphs of this article, why the Independent Petroleum Association of New Mexico said what they said about the growing Community Rights movement in the United States: 

“[The Community Rights movement] is the beginning of a social movement that is greater than just the oil and gas industry, it is a potential game changer for all of corporate America.”
After reading this article it’s clear to me, and I hope to you the reader, that big corporations and associated groups will try just about anything and everything to put out the fire behind this movement. We at Community Rights US (CRUS) invite you to take a look around our website, be inspired, contact us, and join us however you can in the fight to dismantle corporate rule in the places we live. Let’s not leave it up to our children and grandchildren to fight this fight this time around. 
From The Intercept: The People who wrote an ordinance banning the aerial spraying of pesticides in western Oregon last year aren’t professional environmental advocates. Their group, Lincoln County Community Rights, has no letterhead, business cards, or paid staff. Its handful of core members includes the owner of a small business that installs solar panels, a semi-retired Spanish translator, an organic farmer who raises llamas, and a self-described caretaker and Navajo-trained weaver.

And yet this decidedly homespun group of part-time, volunteer, novice activists managed a rare feat: They didn’t just stop the spraying of pesticides that had been released from airplanes and helicopters in this rural county for decades. They also scared the hell out of the companies that make them, according to internal documents from CropLife America, the national pesticide trade group. Although some of the world’s biggest companies poured money into a stealth campaign to stop the ordinance, and even though the Lincoln activists had no experience running political campaigns, the locals still won. MORE…