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Critiques of Existing Activism through a Community Rights Lens

Contrived Defeat: How the Lafayette Council and Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA) Derailed the Most Powerful Ban on Fossil Fuels

This article by Cliff Willmeng originally appeared on the Willmeng for Grassroots Power webpage, May 26th, 2018. Since 2012 the Lafayette City Council has fought against any significant effort threatening to disrupt oil and gas drilling operations. This is demonstrated by the actions of politicians in Lafayette throughout the course of the ongoing campaign to [...]

By |2018-05-30T16:05:15-07:00May 26th, 2018|Critiques of Existing Activism through a Community Rights Lens, Original Writings on Community Rights Topics, State & Federal Preemption, Supreme Courts - Federal & State|
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Resistance Radio: Derrick Jensen Interviews Community Rights Leader and Attorney Thomas Linzey

This recent interview was posted on May 20th, 2018.  This 50 minute audio interview can be downloaded HERE or at YouTube. Brief Commentary about by Community Rights US Media Team member Curt Hubatch: This is Derrick Jensen's 6th Resistance Radio interview with Thomas Linzey going back to October 20th, 2013. Being a part-time rural letter carrier [...]

By |2018-05-24T09:01:25-07:00May 20th, 2018|Audio, Critiques of Existing Activism through a Community Rights Lens, Interviews with Community Rights People, Rights of Nature, Video|
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Public Citizen Online Petition: Tell the Cooke Corporation To Stand Down On Its Threat To A Washington State Environmental Law

Recently Forest Jahnke, a Community Rights US (CRUS) Advisory Board member, received a request from Public Citizen to sign an online petition to tell the Cooke Corporation to stand down on its threat to a Washington State Environmental Law. Below is what Forest had to say about it from a Community Rights perspective, and a [...]

By |2018-05-14T13:27:00-07:00May 14th, 2018|Critiques of Existing Activism through a Community Rights Lens, Original Writings on Topics Relevant to the Community Rights Movement, Supreme Courts - Federal & State|
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Author Rivera Sun Asks: What’s Your Best One-Line Advice For Young Activists?

Recently, Rivera Sun, author of the Dandelion Insurrection and other revolutionary books, posed this question to her readers and friends on Facebook: "What's your best one-line advice for young activists? (Young in experience, not just age.)" Community Rights US's Founding Director Paul Cienfuegos stumbled across it and found the question important enough to weigh in [...]

By |2018-05-05T07:30:43-07:00May 5th, 2018|Critiques of Existing Activism through a Community Rights Lens|
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The five habits that can add more than a decade to your life

Major study calculates effect on lifespan of habits including healthy eating and not smoking This article by Ian Sample appeared in The Guardian, April 30th, 2018. Brief commentary by CRUS co-founder Paul Cienfuegos: The co-author of this research study says, "Given that the habits of a healthy lifestyle are well known, the mystery is why [...]

By |2018-05-01T08:57:23-07:00April 30th, 2018|Critiques of Current News Stories through a Community Rights Lens, Critiques of Existing Activism through a Community Rights Lens, News Stories: National & International|
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Tell Me a Story: Michelle Holman, activist

This 3 minute video about Lane County, Oregon Community Rights activist Michelle Holman appeared in The Register-Guard, April 19th, 2018. The short video can be downloaded and viewed HERE. Katie Lyon writes this about the Lane County Community Rights activist: Michelle Holman’s activism began many years ago at the University of Oregon during the Vietnam War. [...]

By |2018-04-24T17:32:43-07:00April 19th, 2018|Critiques of Existing Activism through a Community Rights Lens, Interviews with Community Rights People, Video|
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Leslie Gregory Leads National Campaign to get the US Government to Declare Racism as a Public Health Threat.

Leslie Gregory is a certified Physician Assistant living in Portland, Oregon. She is a navy veteran and mother of two, and a longtime social justice activist. She is the founder of Right to Health US, a national campaign asserting that racism meets the government's official criteria to be declared as a threat to public health. [...]

By |2018-04-04T23:25:44-07:00March 28th, 2018|Audio, Critiques of Existing Activism through a Community Rights Lens|
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Keynote Speech by Paul Cienfuegos at Progresstival in La Crosse, Wisconsin

Paul Cienfuegos presented the Keynote Speech at Progresstival in La Crosse, Wisconsin on February 3rd, 2018. The full text of his speech is below. To listen to it on audio, click HERE and scroll to the six-minute mark. Thank you all for inviting me to such a wonderful event today. It’s a pleasure to be here [...]

By |2018-02-14T22:18:56-08:00February 3rd, 2018|Audio, Critiques of Existing Activism through a Community Rights Lens, Speeches & Presentations by Community Rights People, State & Federal Preemption, Supreme Courts - Federal & State|
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One Final New Year’s Resolution for 2018

A blog posting by Thomas Linzey of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from January 29, 2018. Here’s a New Year’s resolution before January comes to a close – let’s stop lying to each other. Let’s stop lying about the state of the planet and what it will really take to fix it. Let’s stop lying [...]

By |2018-02-27T18:57:01-08:00January 31st, 2018|Blogs from Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Critiques of Existing Activism through a Community Rights Lens, Original Writings on Topics Relevant to the Community Rights Movement|
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Video Interview: Protecting Lake Erie’s Right to Exist with the Lake Erie Bill of Rights

This one hour video interview was posted on the National Community Rights Network (NCRN) website, January 29th, 2018. Tom Groover has an INCREDIBLE conversation with grassroots activists Markie Miller and Will Falk about recognizing and protecting the Rights of Nature through local law-making as a legal solution to a fixed governmental/corporate state system. This fixed system places [...]

By |2018-02-02T12:28:54-08:00January 29th, 2018|Critiques of Existing Activism through a Community Rights Lens, Interviews with Community Rights People, Regulatory Agencies & Laws (Federal & State), Rights of Nature, Speeches & Presentations by Community Rights People, State & Federal Preemption, Supreme Courts - Federal & State, Video|
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