Move to Amend's graphic helps illustrate the weird and illogical situation we find ourselves in with the non-living, fictional entity of the corporation having rights. From a recent Move to Amend newsletter: Today, March 8, is International Women's Day -- an observance established in 1911 with deep roots in the Women's Suffrage Movement. It is an expression of how hard women all over the world have had to [...]
Greg Coleridge of Move to Amend writes about the problems associated with allowing social media platforms to be arbiters of free speech. It's a succinct, short argument, worth a read. We at CRUS are in absolute and full agreement that constitutional rights should never be granted to business corporations. And we agree that this article [...]
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/02/02/bidens-executive-order-climate-crisis-exposes-need-constitutional-changePublished on Tuesday, February 02, 2021 by Common Dreams. Demands to abolish the Electoral College and restructure the U.S. Supreme Court can be pegged to substantive constitutional change. It's the role of movements to demand and make changes to the "applicable law," and its interpretation. By Simon Davis-Cohen, Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin. Biden’s January 27, 2021 executive [...]
A collection of anonymous donors is offering us $7,500 if we can match it by December 31st. We are nearly half of the way to our goal thanks to those of you who have already donated! Can you help us with a one-time or monthly tax-deductible donation? If you remember the moment you first realized [...]
Too many Democrats are missing on an issue fundamental to farmers: the consolidation of the agriculture sector. By Brian Barth In The Nation OCTOBER 27, 2020 Wisconsin dairy farmer Sarah Lloyd believes she has the answer to a question that has convulsed the Democratic Party for the past four years. “People from the coasts are always like, ‘What’s [...]
Press release from Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights Becomes Largest Municipality in the U.S. to Adopt a ‘Rights of Nature’ Law November 3, 2020 Contact: Chuck O’Neal, Chairman Florida Rights of Nature Network chuckforflorida@gmail.com 407-399-3228 Thomas Linzey, Senior Legal Counsel Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights tal@pa.net 509-474-9761 ORANGE COUNTY, FL: Orange County, Florida, [...]
N2K (Need to Know) is hosting another democracy discussion Nov 04, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST Discuss Democracy with Thomas Linzey About the Event Welcome to the Democracy discussion group of N2K Need to Know - a platform that shares and activates pathways to a world that works. As part of our beta launch, and [...]
By ORLANDO SENTINEL EDITORIAL BOARD ORLANDO SENTINEL| OCT 15, 2020 AT 5:30 AM Orange County’s Charter Review Commission meets every four years to deliberate changes to the document that guides how the county is governed. This time around, the commission came up with three proposed charter changes, which are on the general election ballot. The Orlando Sentinel Editorial [...]
The fresh push for recognizing ecosystems as rights-bearing entities comes as the documentary film Invisible Hand premieres worldwide. Published on Friday, September 04, 2020 on Common Dreams by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Ahead of the Friday night global premiere of Invisible Hand—which its creators are calling the world's first documentary film on the Rights of [...]
Director Paul Cienfuegos looks at a recent headline through a Community Rights lens: The headline: Victory! Federal Judge Rules Administration’s Bird-Killing Policy is Illegal Today’s ruling makes it clear that the administration must halt its attempt to rollback the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. https://www.audubon.org/news/victory-federal-judge-rules-administrations-bird-killing-policy-illegal Paul's commentary: Stories like this one are a continuing and painful [...]
