The Republican leadership is outraged that large corporations are taking sides in our increasingly fractured political arena. That’s hysterically funny and totally hypocritical, which should be obvious to everyone except Republican leadership. What Mitch McConnell is actually saying here is - as long as you corporate leaders are on OUR side, it’s all good. Republicans [...]
The latest installment of "Name That Right": Twenty-nine workers at Nike warehouses in Memphis have tested positive of coronavirus, and one has died. Days later, Nike refused entry to a Shelby County Health Department inspector seeking to check whether the warehouse was complying with pandemic restrictions. The department was following up on anonymous complaints left [...]
This article by Greg Coleridge was published in Cleveland.com on February 19th, 2020. The 2020 elections are over, but a revolting takeaway wasn’t who was elected -- depending on your political persuasion. Rather, once again, a flood of money poured into the federal elections, much of it “dark money” from unknown sources and a majority [...]
Michigan’s second-highest court rules in favor of township in case that could damage company’s effort to privatize water This article by Tom Perkins was published in the The Guardian on December 5th, 2019. First a Community Rights commentary about the article by Paul Cienfuegos, Founder and Director of Community Rights US: If Nestle Corporation’s lawyers [...]
Patrick Farnsworth interviews Will Falk about his newly released book "How Dams Fall" and other essential Community Rights topics on his Last Born in the Wilderness podcast. It was published on July 29th, 2019. Below is the description of the interview. In this episode I speak with lawyer and radical environmental activist Will Falk. In [...]
Jane Anne Morris would have been 66 years old today. This memoriam to her life and groundbreaking work in what we now call the Community Rights movement was posted in July 2019 on the Program on Corporations Law and Democracy's (POCLAD) website. We at Community Rights US highly recommend reading anything by JAM. Her writing [...]
A recent federal court ruling in favor of a cellphone radiation disclosure law for the City of Berkeley highlights the tug-of-war between states and municipalities as state lawmakers increasingly block local democracy for the benefit of corporations. This article by Ben Price was published on Truthout July 31st, 2019. In 2015, the City of Berkeley, [...]
This editorial by Stacy Long appeared in The Hawk Eye on June 20, 2019. GRANT TOWNSHIP — This missive addresses Mike Butler, author of a May 28 letter to the editor of The Indiana Gazette. Mr. Butler, mid-Atlantic executive director of Consumer Energy Alliance, made a wildly condescending attempt to sound frightening to Indiana County residents and to [...]
Derrick Jensen interviews Ben Price, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund's (CELDF) national organizing director, about his newly published book, "How Wealth Rules the World: Saving our Communities and Freedoms from the Dictatorship of Property." on June 2nd, 2019. This 53 minute interview can be listened to and downloaded HERE and HERE. A bit about [...]
The Wisconsin Farmers Union Convention also saw the US premier of Community Rights US ’ new Photography Exhibit, “Hidden in Plain Sight: How Corporations Exercise Their Constitutional 'Rights' Under Our Very Noses“, which garnered a lot of attention. The captioned photo shown is one of dozens from the exhibit. Our goal for the exhibit is that it be [...]
