Reflections on Community Rights from Rural America is a monthly column by CR activist and organizer Curt Hubatch. Curt is an unschooling father of two young children and one young adult. Currently he works as a substitute rural letter carrier for the USPS. He lives in a cordwood house that he built with his wife, [...]
Ships and corporations have legal standing. Should ecosystems? This article by Jackie Lynn Mogenson appeared in the July/August 2019 issue of Mother Jones magazine. In the summer of 2014, officials in Toledo, Ohio, announced that the city’s tap water was no longer safe to drink. A toxic algae bloom caused by fertilizer runoff had poisoned Lake Erie, [...]
Revolution and Counterrevolution: The People vs. the Federalists A blog post by Ben Price of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund published on July 3rd, 2019. Fourth of July celebrations commemorate the signing of the Declaration of Independence, not the U.S. Constitution of 1789. We should be thankful for that. The wealthy Federalists who overturned [...]
Two ideas that could save us and the planet: community democracy in the name of sustainability, and the rights of nature This article by Thomas Linzey was published in Common Dreams on July 2nd, 2019. In May, an international group of scientists warned that over a million of the Earth’s species are being driven to [...]
Reflections on Community Rights from Rural America is a monthly column by CR activist and organizer Curt Hubatch. Curt is an unschooling father of two young children and one young adult. Currently he works as a substitute rural letter carrier for the USPS. He lives in a cordwood house that he built with his wife, [...]
The movement to dismantle corporate rule has lost one of its giants - Jane Anne Morris - who died on May 28th in Madison, Wisconsin of ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. She was one of the principal members of the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD.org), a think tank of about a [...]
This article by Will Falk and Sean Butler was published at Deep Green Resistance News Service on June 18th, 2019. It should be clear to anyone following the events surrounding attempts by the citizens of Toledo, OH, with help from nonprofit law firm the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), to protect Lake Erie with [...]
This article by Lindsey Wittenberg Samuelson was published on the Nightingale for Global Health's website on June 5th, 2019. When my daughter was less than 3 months old, I got a call early one morning from a panicked family friend. “Have you drank from your tap today?” I quickly thought about it. I had just [...]
Corporate powers—who have perverted law, logic and nature to have their lifeless profiteering entities declared "persons"—are aghast that Mother Nature not only has rights but those rights can be legally and morally superior to the claim that a corporation's right to profit is absolute This article by Jim Hightower was published in Common Dreams on [...]
Greetings from Rockford, Illinois, where I am temporarily based for just a few more weeks before returning to my home in Oregon for the Summer months. This is an excellent moment to alert me if you want me to visit your community before the end of 2019, as I am already starting to schedule my Autumn months, [...]
