I am deluged by pleas for my money and my online signature every single day – from organizations led by well-meaning people who are either not able or not willing to take a step back from their daily frenzy, to take some long deep breaths, and to honestly analyze whether what they and their organizations are doing is working or not. And if it’s not working, to STOP! RE-THINK! 
The Community Rights movement is offering a different approach – dismantling the legal structures that give corporations protection to keep harming us – from the local up. Here’s an invitation to everyone reading this…
  • Consider pulling together a solid working group of organizers and others where you live, and launch a campaign to pass bold climate protection ordinances in your town, city, or county. Check out my nationally broadcast speech filled with dozens of local climate protection ordinance ideas that could be run as local ballot initiatives in many states.
  • Are you trying to stop factory farms from destroying your rural community? Pull together a group of people where you live and launch a campaign to pass THIS ban on factory farms
  • Worried about the poisoning of your county’s forests and farms from the spraying of pesticides? Check out THIS local ordinance that has already been passed in a rural Oregon county. YOU could organize your community and ban corporate spraying of pesticides.
  • Excited about the Green New Deal? So are we! You don’t have to wait for our sluggish and corporatized state and federal governments to pass the laws we urgently need. You can pass them locally, after just one good solid year of effective local community organizing and public education. And once you do, your entire state will take notice. Then in Year Two you can teach other communities in your state how to replicate your win.(And by the way, we’re currently searching for a US community to host our next nationally broadcast speech on how a Community Rights strategy can most effectively and rapidly kick-start a Green New Deal transformation of this nation. Please contact us if you’re interested in hosting!)
  • Pollinator Bill of Rights? Ban on 5G cell towers? Real police accountability? Neighborhood Bill of Rights?  We can help you to conceptualize and organize towards these powerful goals, starting locally.
The Community Rights movement has been blazing a new pathway for advocacy groups for two decades, with hundreds of local wins under our belts.
It is essential that our activism be as effective as possible. Check out our Ordinances Database . Let’s do this!
This is an excerpt from my recent Patreon post. — Paul Cienfuegos, Founding Director of Community Rights US
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