It's the 203rd anniversary of corporations winning constitutional so-called “rights” via the Supreme Court’s outrageous Dartmouth decision, 203 years ago TODAY. What a long strange trip it’s been!! Paul Cienfuegos, CRUS founding director, wrote this essay in honor of this day, three years ago, when CRUS hosted Corporate “Rights” Bicentennial events to commemorate this outrage in [...]
Paul Cienfuegos' new book, "How Dare We? Courageous Practices to Reclaim Our Power as Citizens," is coming out later this month! More details HERE.
This is an important moment for everyone in the US to recognize the value of indigenous lifeways, traditional ecological knowledge, and spirituality centered in connection and care. The ancient wisdom held by indigenous peoples around the world is exactly what we need to counteract our unrooted global civilization's trend toward separation and fear, apathy and [...]
CRUS Director Tyler Norman visited a blockade camp in Northern Minnesota. Corporate criminals at Enbridge are currently building “Line 3,” a pipeline which would carry nearly 1 million gallons/day of a partially-refined oil-like product from the world's most destructive and inefficient source of petroleum in Alberta, Canada... pumped 1,100 miles across precious Northwoods wetlands, sacred [...]
A Challenge To Environmental, Civil Rights And Other Activists. by Richard Grossman Published in DAYBREAK , VOL 4 NO 4 , PAGE 18, 1995. With few exceptions' people come out of law school without having questioned pro-corporate doctrines on property (i.e, future profits are corporate property, the fruits of employees' labor are corporate property, the [...]
Cameron La Follette, Executive director of Oregon Coast Alliance, writes about the Rights of Nature movement. Published on March 6, 2019 by the American Association of Geographers. Rights of Nature is a short-hand term for a form of ecological governance that both provides for and prioritizes Nature’s right to flourish. It also provides for various [...]
Here is a new speech by Community Rights US' founding director, Paul Cienfuegos, presented to the Oregon Unitarian Universalist Voices for Justice Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon on September 19, 2020. You can read it below, or listen to it HERE. Thoughts About Breathing and Not Breathing During This Time of Escalating Emergencies Facing [...]
Z Magazine published this OpEd on August 20, 2020. Read it on ZNet. Community Rights US submitted the following OpEd to The Oregonian - Portland, Oregon's daily corporate newspaper - on August 16, 2020. Titled "A National Emergency Requires a Bold Local Response". Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, their Opinion Editor rejected our submission with this [...]
Resurrecting a Constitutional Right of Local, Community Self-Government in the Name of Environmental Sustainability By By Thomas Linzey & Daniel E. Brannen Jr. Published by Arizona Journal of Environmental Law & Policy This article began as a series of legal briefs filed in various federal courts in defense of several municipal communities who had asserted [...]
