Commentary by Community Rights US Director Paul Cienfuegos: It’s not that we disagree with the idea that conservatives have captured the meaning of our (second) US Constitution, and that progressives also need their own interpretation to further their political objectives. But we believe that the author of this Opinion piece in The Guardian has overlooked [...]
Objections to the Bayou Bridge Pipeline demonstrate how the system is rigged. This article by Sue Lincoln appeared in The Bayou Brief on September 16, 2018. n Sept. 4, 2018, with bulldozers revving their engines in accompaniment, Cherri Foytlin was tackled and placed in a choke hold by a non-uniformed man who then knelt atop [...]
This letter to the editor by Michelle Sanborn of the New Hampshire Community Rights Network (NHCRN) appeared in InDepthNH.org, August 26, 2018. Brief commentary by Community Rights US media team member Curt Hubatch: A lot of people ask what they can do when faced with a corporate harm like an oil pipeline, frac-sand mine, factory [...]
The article below was originally published in DeSmog. Investigative journalism - such as this story by acclaimed Canadian scientist David Suzuki - purports to expose the latest corporate outrage, but ends up unintentionally burying deeper truths that the public urgently needs to understand if we are to ever end corporate control over us. Within the [...]
This editorial by The Inquirer Editorial Board appeared in said paper, July 11th, 2018. A brief commentary by Community Rights US Media Team member Curt Hubatch: It is said that if "the state" is going to exercise state preemption the issue at hand must be of state-wide concern, and it must protect, rather than violate, [...]
This article by David Dayen appeared in The Intercept, June 2nd, 2018. A brief commentary by Community Rights US founder and director Paul Cienfuegos: Many progressives assume that it’s those damn Republican-controlled state legislatures that keep passing one new preemptive law after another to stop local governments from protecting their community’s health, safety and welfare. [...]
Originally published in QZ.com by Michael J Coren on May 18, 2018. Community Rights US Founding Director Paul Cienfuegos was quite intrigued by this article but found it substantially wanting in one particular way. The author totally missed the significant issue of how large business corporations have entirely eclipsed our governance structures and have become [...]
A Blog Posting by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), from May 16, 2018. According to recent polls, only 20% of Americans know how many U.S. Senators there are, and only one in seven young Americans could identify either Iraq or Afghanistan on a world map. A majority of Americans were unable to name more than one [...]
The city wants to tax large corporations to pay for homeless housing, but Jeff Bezos isn’t pleased. This article by Michael Hobbes appeared in the Huffington Post, May 12th, 2018. Brief commentary by Community Rights US Director and Founder Paul Cienfuegos: Corporate boards of directors are holding citizens hostage all over the US and around the [...]
A new book points out how companies mobilise their employees to support politicians beneficial to the corporation This article by Ganesh Sitaraman appeared in The Guardian, May 7th, 2018. Brief commentary by Community Rights US (CRUS) director Paul Cienfuegos: What happens when business corporations' Supreme Court granted First Amendment free speech rights become much more [...]
