Paul Cienfuegos presented this original speech to the Transition PDX group in Portland, Oregon, on January 18, 2012. Please share it widely with other Transition groups. Thank you so much for inviting me to share my thoughts with you this evening! I have been excited about the Transition movement ever since it first launched, but [...]
This document was published online in January 2012 by Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. A great deal of activism has emerged in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC. In that case, the Court declared that corporate First Amendment “free speech” rights were violated by federal law which [...]
Community Rights US Director Paul Cienfuegos’ gave this rousing 5-minute speech at the Pink Martini hosted rally/concert in solidarity with Occupy Portland’s downtown encampment, on October 28, 2011 in Pioneer Courthouse Square. Link to the audio can be found HERE. Paul then invited the crowd to return to the square a few days later where [...]
This article by Jane Anne Morris (DemocracyThemePark.org) was originally published in the Spring 2010 edition of Synthesis/Regeneration. On this Tenth Anniversary of the “Battle for Seattle,” we could celebrate, we should commemorate, but we must evaluate. Right, then. What seemed so important at the time? It is difficult to even see back to 1999 without becoming [...]
Paul Cienfuegos and Mari Margil appeared as panelists at the Econvergence Northwest Regional Gathering on the Economic and Ecological Crisis in 2009. KBOO Radio recorded the panel discussion and the Q&A. Paul Cienfuegos is the Program Director at Community Rights US. Mari Margil is the Associate Director at Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. Listen to [...]
This article by Jane Anne Morris (DemocracyThemePark.org) was originally published in the Spring 2009 edition of Synthesis/Regeneration, and was based on remarks made at Synthesis/Regeneration’s “Surviving Climate Change: Producing Less and Enjoying It More” Roundtable, in St. Louis, Missouri in June 2008. Working in tandem with a cooperative Supreme Court, corporate lawyers have insinuated themselves into [...]
Thomas Linzey presented this groundbreaking speech at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law on March 4, 2004. We believe it is one of the most important original documents that have yet been produced since the beginning of the Community Rights movement in 1999. Thomas Linzey is the Executive Director of Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. [...]
This extraordinary article by corporate anthrop0logist Jane Anne Morris (DemocracyThemePark.org) is a kind of Primer on Activist Groups vs Corporate Strategy. It was originally published in Globalize Liberation (City Lights Books, 2004). ..... In the U.S., this corporatized world is an open-air Democracy Theme Park where people go to hearings and pull voting levers, while decisions are being made elsewhere. [...]
On June 4, 2003, Bill Moyers gave a major speech at the Take Back America Conference in Washington DC, titled "This is Your Story - The Progressive Story of America. Pass It On." The conference was sponsored by the Campaign for America’s Future. Just 20 days later, on June 24, 2003, Richard Grossman published a scathing critique of Moyers' [...]
This article by Jane Anne Morris (DemocracyThemePark.org) was originally published in the Spring 2000 edition of By What Authority, & reprinted in Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy. What to expect next from corporate sponsors of the WTO? There’s a well-thumbed page in the corporate playbook, ready to go. Whether or not it works depends on us. The last time [...]
