[CRNMC] Argument For Measure S

[dougmck at mcn.org]

 We will get this posted to web and facebook ASAP.

Doiug

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shannon Biggs" 
To:"karinajoy" 
Cc:"Community Rights Network" 
Sent:Thu, 21 Aug 2014 08:50:09 -0700
Subject:Re: [CRNMC] Argument For Measure S

 Great job Karina and all! 

 Sent from my iPhone

 On Aug 20, 2014, at 8:33 PM, "karinajoy"  wrote:

 > We submitted this Argument For Measure S today, which will be
published in the voter pamphlet sent to all registered voters. 
 > 
 > I'd like to thank those who helped me work on this. I appreciate
the help and the suggested wording and ideas from Ben Price, Shannon,
Tim Rice, Kelly, as well as the feedback from the proponents.
 > 
 > No one submitted an Argument Against the measure, so we won't need
to write a rebuttal. We're done with this part!
 > 
 > Attached below is a CELDF newsletter sent to me by Ben Price. It
explains so much about the Community Rights Movement - it's purpose
and strategies. It excited and motivated me once again and will
answer many of the questions you may have or will be asked. Please
read it. Great Q&A.
 > 
 > Onward with the campaign!
 > 
 > In service,
 > Karina
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Argument For Measure S
 > 
 > Measure S establishes a Community Bill of Rights for the people of
Mendocino County, built on the right to local community self
governance, in order to exercise and secure our unalienable right to
protect our health, safety and well being. These rights include the
right to live in a healthy and safe ecosystem and the right to
protect local water from harm caused by unconventional gas
extraction. In order to uphold and protect those rights, this
initiative bans all fracking related activities within the County,
including the transportation of fracking fluids, and the use of local
water for fracking. 
 > 
 > Our nation was founded on the concept that government is
instituted to secure our unalienable rights and derives it’s just
powers from the consent of the governed. Activities such as fracking
affect our health and safety, our quality of life, the health of our
natural environment as well as our property values and must be
decided by the Citizens who live here and who will be directly
affected, or there is no “consent of the governed.”
 > 
 > Yet States routinely issue permits to chartered corporations that
make it “legal” for them to violate the rights of the people and
refuse to recognize our right to say “no!’ to harmful activities.
 > 
 > Measure S challenges those illegitimate laws which violate our
fundamental rights. This measure elevates the rights of the people of
Mendocino where they belong, above the claimed "rights" of
corporations and state agencies that enable fracking corporations to
profit from the destruction of local ecosystems and to harm residents
and communities. 
 > 
 > Measure S protects our water by banning fracking and asserts the
right of the people of Mendocino to make those kinds of decisions now
and into the future.
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