SLAPP’s: Further Reading
Jane Anne Morris has provided us with an excellent starting place to find out much more about SLAPPS's - Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation. To review her resource list, click HERE.
SLAPP, Crackle Pop — Help, They’re Suing Us!
This original blog by Jane Anne Morris was published on her website, DemocracyThemePark.org on January 16, 2017. Congratulations on being sued for your activism. You should be gratified, but instead are probably freaked out. Millions of activists and public officials struggle for the public good for decades without being sued for their work. That’s because the power [...]
SLAPPs Article from NIMBY (1994)
This original blog by Jane Anne Morris was published on her website, DemocracyThemePark.org on January 16, 2017. (The following is from my 1994 book, Not In My Back Yard: The Handbook (Silvercat Publications). It’s dated but still accurate. The references are no longer current.) Watch Out for SLAPPs SLAPP, a term coined in 1988, refers to a Strategic Lawsuit Against [...]
Election Good News for Libs? Best Trump Analysis Starts Here
This original blog by Jane Anne Morris was published on her website, DemocracyThemePark.org on November 21, 2016. Three Positives that the Democratish should follow up on. Nix the so-called “free trade” agreements. Push Single-Payer health care. Revise the voting system. Later I’ll get to what everybody’s enjoying whining about. First the positives, if you can stand it. NAFTA, GATT, CAFTA, [...]
A Brook with Legal Rights: The Rights of Nature in Court
This 51-page academic essay, written by Hope M. Babcock, was originally published in Ecology Law Quarterly in 2016. Hope M. Babcock is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center where she teaches natural resources and environmental law and also directs an environmental clinic. "Our brooks will babble in the courts, Seeking damages for torts." [...]
CORPORATE CAMPAIGN CASH AT THE CATERPILLAR STAGE (Not fuzzy at all)
This article by Jane Anne Morris was published on her website, DemocracyThemePark.org on November 26, 2015. Do you think you can understand butterflies perfectly well without knowing caterpillars? Corporate political contributions had a caterpillar stage; I’m guessing you won’t even recognize it. Here’s a snippet: No corporation doing business in this state, shall pay or contribute, or offer, [...]
Corporate Law Secrets Exposed By Anthropologist (1998/2015)
This article by Jane Anne Morris was published on her website, DemocracyThemePark.org on April 5, 2015. It contains the entire 1995 booklet she wrote, titled, "How to Research the Legal History of Corporations in Your State". The piece below, once available as a pamphlet, was written in 1998 to try to induce “activists” to pierce the invisible force [...]
A Green Look at the Wisconsin Spring
This article by Jane Anne Morris was published on her website, DemocracyThemePark.org, on November 25, 2014. September 2011, Madison, Wisconsin. The legislative recall elections generated by the Wisconsin Spring demonstrations are over.1 Democrats failed to retake the state Senate, gaining only two seats over the fall 2010 total. Republicans now hold the Senate by a 17–16 margin, and retain [...]
Localizing Direct Democracy: A Matter of Survival?
This Op-Ed by Joshua Stephens was published in Truth-Out on June 26, 2013. Joshua is a board member with the Institute for Anarchist Studies, and has been active in anti-capitalist and international solidarity movements across the last two decades. He writes on antiauthoritarian social movements for various outlets. A little over a year ago, I found myself [...]
Wisconsin’s Painfully Moderate Labor Uprising (2011)
This article by Jane Anne Morris was published on her website, DemocracyThemePark.org, on October 15, 2012. What one can say with confidence is that…AFL-CIO business unionism does not meet the needs of working people at the end of the twentieth century. A qualitatively different unionism is needed. — Staughton Lynd, 1996 Madison, Wisconsin, September 2011. The world-famous Wisconsin [...]