<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424359489049_8944"><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424359489049_8422" style="display: block;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424359489049_8421" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424359489049_8420" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><blockquote id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424359489049_8423" style="padding-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;"><div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424359489049_8426"><div id="yiv4795859958"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424359489049_8425"><div class="yiv4795859958title" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424359489049_8943" style="font: 26px/1.2em Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left; color: rgb(21, 128, 192); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Right to Local Self-Government</div><div class="yiv4795859958title" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424359489049_9530" style="text-align: left; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.2em; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="yiv4795859958Apple-style-span" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424359489049_9529" style="font-size: 18px;"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424359489049_9528" href="http://www.celdf.org/the-right-to-local-self-government" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.celdf.org/the-right-to-local-self-government</a></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424359489049_8646" style="font: 14px/22px Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424359489049_8645" size="3">What <em>is </em>the right of local, community self-government? Where did that right come from? The right is violated daily – what does that actually look like? And can we build sustainable communities without that right? If not, <em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424359489049_9531">how </em>do we change law to codify that right?<br><br>CELDF’s Thomas Linzey answers these questions in the 20 minute slide show below: <br></font></div><font size="3" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-transform: none; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font><span style="font: 14px/22px Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><ul id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424359489049_9848" style="font: 14px/22px Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"></font><li><font size="3">Defining local, democratic community self-government,</font></li><font size="3"></font><li id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424359489049_9849"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424359489049_9850" size="3">Exploring its origins dating back to 1620 and advancing forward through the American Revolution,</font></li><font size="3"></font><li id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424359489049_9852"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424359489049_9851" size="3">How that right was violated prior to the American Revolution by the British Crown – and how it is violated today, and</font></li><font size="3"></font><li id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424359489049_9854"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424359489049_9853" size="3">What communities are doing to codify their right to local, democratic community self-government today – moving towards creating the sustainable communities they envision. </font></li></ul><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424359489049_9855"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424359489049_9831">
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