[CRNMC] Fw: [Occupymendocino] A really good read.

Wed Apr 30 12:04:51 PDT 2014

Well said Lanny....This would make a great OpEd or blog piece. ;-)

On 4/30/14 12:01 PM, "Lanny Cotler" <lcotler at gmail.com> wrote:

> The difference Shannon points to is crucial. Understanding it is necessary and
> important; but buying into it is even more useful if we're to change
> fundamentally the society we're bequeathing to our immediate and distant
> descendants. 
> 
> Until my wife, Karina, made me take a serious look at the premises of the
> Community Rights Movement, I had little to no hope that reform was possible:
> the System was rotten and terminal and had passed the point of redemption or
> being fixed. In fact, I don't see the CRM as reform at all; I see it as a
> quiet revolution, since it turns the current paradigm upside down: grassroots
> rule rather than the Oligarchy. And once the CRM takes hold, I suggest it
> won't be so "quiet" after all.
> 
> The Forces of Greed, the Power Elite, the Global CorporatocracyŠwill attack us
> once they see us as a real threat. That's not a clever prophecy; that's a
> realpolitik necessity. Our species has created and then allowed to grow a
> System‹predatory capitalism‹that has become an almost sentient force to
> perpetuate itself (a-la The Terminator).
> 
> Zoning laws are a type of reform. Growing home rule, however, is a systemic
> change at the molecular level; i.e., a revolution. We would be more than naive
> to assume that this revolution will not engender a counter-revolution.
> 
> Thus, I feel comfortable now sharing with you all a few short videos I've made
> over the past few years. They can be found at www.youtube.com/classwarfilms
> <http://www.youtube.com/classwarfilms> . If you check them out, please start
> with "Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine", our foundational
> expression.
> 
> To steal from Abraham Lincoln, I see the CRM as "the last best hope for
> humankind."
> 
> Lanny Cotler
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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> On Apr 30, 2014, at 10:47 AM, Shannon Biggs <shannon at globalexchange.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Re: [CRNMC] Fw: [Occupymendocino] A really good read.
>> I know Helen.  Zoning laws and home rule are different in NY, and certainly
>> lots of folks have chosen to try to use zoning laws to ban, many are also in
>> court (many are not).
>> 
>>  I think the difference between the approach we¹re using is that we¹re seeing
>> the problem differently. We say Fracking itself isn¹t the real problem, the
>> problem is deeper than that someone else who doesn¹t live in Mendocino is
>> deciding whether or not fracking comes our way. The work we¹re doing is about
>> addressing the structure of law that says we¹re up for grabs to corporate
>> profit and changing the law to put decision making in the hands of the
>> community.  We¹re laying the groundwork for saying no not just to fracking,
>> but to the idea that someone else can make these decisions for us.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 4/30/14 10:39 AM, "karinajoy" <karinacotler at gmail.com
>> <x-msg://139/karinacotler@gmail.com> > wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks for this article. Very interesting. The more ways we learn to take
>>> back our system, the better!
>>> 
>>> This was Barry's suggestion for having a simple anti-fracking ordinance,
>>> thru the zoning laws.
>>> But we wanted a community bill of rights, too.
>>> Karina
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Apr 30, 2014, at 6:57 AM, Michael St. John wrote:
>>> 
>>>> This article describes a different method by which communities in New York
>>>> state have been banning fracking - thus far with apparent success.  It is
>>>> interesting to know that the zoning method is being used elsewhere, and
>>>> that it has survived in the courts thus far.  MStJ.
>>>>  
>>>> Michael St. John
>>>> St. John & Associates
>>>> Berkeley Office
>>>> 510-845-8928 
>>>> North Coast Office
>>>> 707-937-3711 
>>>> fax: 510-845-1813
>>>> www.stjohnandassociates.net <http://www.stjohnandassociates.net>
>>>> <http://www.stjohnandassociates.net <http://www.stjohnandassociates.net/> >
>>>>  
>>>>  
>>>>  
>>>>   On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 8:31 PM, Mark Safron <marksafron at att.net
>>>> <x-msg://139/marksafron@att.net> > wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>   
>>>> One very good reason for being a Charter County. M.S.
>>>> The real secret to beating the Koch brothers: How our broken political
>>>> system can still be won
>>>> A duo of activists has quietly bested the energy lobby, helping ban
>>>> fracking in 172 towns. Here's how they did it
>>>> http://www.salon.com/2014/04/29/the_real_secret_to_beating_the_koch_brother
>>>> s_how_our_broken_political_system_can_still_be_overcome/
>>>> 
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