[CRNMC] Local Self-Governance Ordinances from 13 States & Climbing! What Are We Doing?

Wed Feb 13 18:24:14 PST 2019

Hello Fellow Change-Makers of Mendocino County!

I am forwarding today's newsletter from Paul Cienfuegos of Community 
Rights US.  Through my regular research to remain informed, I have been 
noticing an increase in news related to the adoption of Community Rights 
Ordinances across the country. This is the theme of Paul's newsletter.

It has now been more than four years since we passed *Measure S... **/a 
huge milestone for the community rights movement in California/**:*

*With the passage of Measure S, residents in Mendocino County made 
history as the **first California community to adopt a Community Bill of 
Rights, placing their rights above corporate interests. * 
<https://globalexchange.org/2014/11/05/mendocino-countys-historic-vote-elevates-residents-rights-bans-fracking/>*The 
*Mendocino County Community Bill of Rights Fracking and Water Use 
Initiative*, (Measure S) establishes the rights of the people of 
Mendocino County to a healthy environment, including clean air and 
water, and the rights of ecosystems to exist and flourish. The measure 
also secures the rights of residents to local self-governance. 
~GlobalExchange.org 
<https://globalexchange.org/2014/11/05/mendocino-countys-historic-vote-elevates-residents-rights-bans-fracking/>
*

The reason I am forwarding Paul's latest update, is to pose a question 
to anyone and everyone who is willing to offer a response. Please 
indicate what part of the county you live in with your response...

/*     > What actions have been/are being taken to exercise our secured 
right to local self-governance?

*/Particularly in light of our current national state, *_which includes 
carrying-on a legacy of genocide_*, I am interested not only in learning 
about ongoing efforts, but also in exploring other creative ways of 
utilizing our right to local self-governance to act upon our 
responsibility to future generations as guardians to Life on Earth.

In Peace & Gratitude
Tammy

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	Breakthrough: Online Database of Ordinances from 13 States & 
Climbing
Date: 	Wed, 13 Feb 2019 16:01:02 -0500 (EST)
From: 	Paul Cienfuegos | Community Rights US <contact at communityrights.us>
Reply-To: 	contact at communityrights.us
To: 	tammy at mcn.org

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Since the New Year, we’ve been a beehive of activity here at Community 
Rights US.

In today's newsletter you'll find compelling news about the debut launch 
of ourcomprehensive database of Community Rights ordinances, an 
updatefrom one of ouractive CR groupsin northern Wisconsin, and a 
tribute to Jane Anne Morris - one of the founders of the Community 
Rights movement. Plus, we're introducing a new columnfeaturing the voice 
of one of Community Rights US'own media team members speaking out from 
the backwoods of rural America.

But first, I want to thank so many of you for responding to our 
end-of-year fundraising call to help us match a substantial donation we 
had just received. Forty-seven of our subscribers helped us to raise an 
additional $2,825 dollars in just 6 days. Amazing! Thank you so much!

This month’s biggest excitement for me is that I get to announce that we 
have finally launched our comprehensive database of Community Rights 
ordinances (i.e. municipal and county laws) that have been enacted since 
our movement began in 1999!

Hundreds of hours of research time have gone into this monumental task - 
achieved entirely by two of our Community Rights US heroes - Eva 
Hamilton and Orenda Maitri.

You will finally be able to view more than 60 communities’ ordinances 
from our new Ordinances Home Page 
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in three different formats - chronologically, state by state, or via a 
detailed US map.

We’re still working hard to compile many more of these local ordinances, 
and YOU can help if you have additional information about these or 
others that we may have missed. This is still very much a work in progress.

More than 200 communities and counties in thirteen states have now 
passed these locally-enforceable challenges to unjust state and federal 
laws, banning a wide variety of harmful corporate and governmental 
activities.

View the full list of ordinance topics HERE 
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Over the next few months, we will be adding additional ordinance lists 
including:

  * Ordinances that passed but were later removed or defeated
  * Ordinances that failed
  * Currently active ordinance campaigns

So keep an active eye on our new Ordinances Home Page 
<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ooA5XUKNEEI1VxQfLemqivQLzGbwIuH2k6mwoOC6Qzete1huJCi2aQuMJpmSUGhri92hBznpseZT6GmE8IWfcZsdvqh-JjJegiRzbnE3bRB5E7Q-2ldLag5jkP5Z9aspn5CXu9Fl2BTaeUgdE7l1RCTtAetgRTD-Y9HA-0eHAGwth4oS7ECc7aBD-1ZCQ6HGiZNJByEqx1Q0755VsInaMSoFio0xbzhM&c=6lvd5jtgHwJqiu2uD6z8yyDYqfrX5Rth4sbFlDXKjybqPJ46sqXg9g==&ch=8C6HHcsOx6ZryTbKlma1MeYcgPLpfz0CNh_KWiPT3HhvMTGYu4RCQA==> for 
regular updates.

And now a news update from one of our active Community Rights groups in 
northern Wisconsin, from one of its core members, Curt Hubatch (who also 
maintains our website's NewsFeed):

The Washburn County Community Rights Alliance (WCCRA) introduced our 
Climate Bill of Rights to the Chicog Town Board in Northwestern 
Wisconsin in December. There was an hour of respectful conversation 
about the bill, our organization, and Community Rights in general.

In the audience was the former Corporate Counsel of our county. The Town 
Chairman invited him for legal clarity about the issue of passing law at 
the local level. There was no vote taken on the bill.

We left the meeting on two positive notes about our time on the agenda. 
At the beginning, the Chairman expressed he never expected to be sitting 
in the chair he was sitting in. He entered the political arena lobbying 
for local support to oppose a project to turn an abandoned gravel pit 
into a landfill. Then declaring he was as much an environmentalist as 
anyone else. And in wrapping up the discussion he said something one 
always likes to hear from a public servant, "I'm interested, let's keep 
this conversation going."

A few weeks later the attorney present gave his summary of what was 
proposed. The first point made in the summary was predictable: "Local 
governing bodies do not have the authority to make law in Wisconsin, 
only to administer state law."

We at The WCCRA are in talks as to what our next move will be 
concerning our Community Bill of Rights in the Town of Chicog.

In other news: I was honored to be chosen to lead this year’s 
Groundswell half-day workshop at the88th Annual Wisconsin Farmers Union 
Convention 
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Appleton WI.

About 75 participants learned that there are more politically effective 
strategies available to us than the existing single-issue regulatory or 
zoning urgent-response activism in order to stop the endless 
proliferation of corporate factory farms, pipelines and power lines, 
frac sand mines, and seizure of private lands by corporations using 
eminent domain. Numerous local elected officials and advocacy group 
leaders were in attendance at my workshop and a very provocative time 
was had by all.

As the convention then proceeded for another two days, it was evident 
that the Community Rights workshop had helped to spark a different kind 
of conversation in the hallways of the convention.

We even managed to amend the Farmers Union’s resolution on Eminent 
Domain, adding the following text to their official platform:

"Additionally, be it resolved that while we wait for years for 
Wisconsin’s Eminent Domain statutes to be revised, that Wisconsin 
Farmers Union calls on Wisconsin counties and towns to explore the more 
immediate option of passing Community Rights ordinances that would 
immediately prohibit business corporations from exercising Eminent 
Domain authority over the property rights of private land owners."

The Convention also saw the US premier of Community Rights US’new 
Photography Exhibit, “Hidden in Plain Sight: How Corporations Exercise 
Their Constitutional 'Rights' Under Our Very Noses“, which garnered a 
lot of attention.

The captioned photo shown is one of dozens from the exhibit.

Our goal for the exhibit is that it be displayed all over the US 
throughout 2019 - in libraries, on college campuses and law schools, in 
coffeehouses and community centers - to commemorate the 200th 
Anniversary 
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of business corporations gaining so-called constitutional “rights” via 
the US Supreme Court.

After its premier at the Farmers Union convention in Appleton WI, it is 
currently being exhibited at the public library in Menomonie WI, as well 
as briefer viewings in Decorah IA and Gays Mills WI.

It will premier soon in Eureka CA, and will open for a month-long 
exhibit in Portland OR 
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February 28th, and in Madison WI 
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May 3rd. The exhibit will likely also be viewable over the next few 
months in Vancouver WA, and Detroit MI. See a list of future events HERE 
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Would you or your group like to host our extraordinary exhibit in YOUR 
community?

It’s easy and inexpensive to do so! We will send it to you, ready to 
hang. Please contact me <mailto:paul at communityrights.us> for more details.

And finally…. I was interviewed on Viroqua, WI’s community radio station 
WDRT on February 5th on the Heart of Wellness show. You can listen to it 
HERE 
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All my best,
Paul Cienfuegos
Founding Director,
Community Rights US 
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P.S. With so many exciting developments unfolding at Community Rights 
US, would YOU like to volunteer with us?

Here are a few ways you can contribute:

  * Help us locate dozens of additional communities to host our Photo
    Exhibit and Bicentennial Roast
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    over the next months, starting with YOUR community
  * Review our just-released national database
    <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ooA5XUKNEEI1VxQfLemqivQLzGbwIuH2k6mwoOC6Qzete1huJCi2aQuMJpmSUGhri92hBznpseZT6GmE8IWfcZsdvqh-JjJegiRzbnE3bRB5E7Q-2ldLag5jkP5Z9aspn5CXu9Fl2BTaeUgdE7l1RCTtAetgRTD-Y9HA-0eHAGwth4oS7ECc7aBD-1ZCQ6HGiZNJByEqx1Q0755VsInaMSoFio0xbzhM&c=6lvd5jtgHwJqiu2uD6z8yyDYqfrX5Rth4sbFlDXKjybqPJ46sqXg9g==&ch=8C6HHcsOx6ZryTbKlma1MeYcgPLpfz0CNh_KWiPT3HhvMTGYu4RCQA==> of
    CR ordinances, and suggest updates and corrections
  * Are you an experienced press release writer? We've got one coming up
    and would love the support of your skills

Tribute to JANE ANNE MORRIS: Corporate Anthropologist
& Co-Founder of the
Community Rights Movement

Years before it was even called the Community Rights movement, there was 
the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy 
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Jane Anne Morris was one of its founders in the early 1990’s, along with 
Richard Grossman and others.Jane Anne and Richard (and Peter Kellman) 
did most of the original research and writings which made the Community 
Rights movement’s ideas and strategies spring to life.

In the late 1990’s Jane Anne was instrumental in convincing Thomas 
Linzey, Director of Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund 
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stop battling one corporate harm at a time - almost entirely through the 
dead-end regulatory and zoning process - and to instead focus on the 
work of dismantling the corporate so-called constitutional “rights” that 
allow corporations to harm us in the first place.

She and Richard Grossman were my primary mentors - two of the wisest 
people I have ever met.

I would never have become such an effective Community Rights workshop 
leader or public speaker or community organizer had it not been for Jane 
Anne and Richard.

Sadly, Jane Anne’s health is failing, so today I am celebrating her 
extraordinary life and work. Jane Anne Morris - corporate anthropologist 
- my mentor and friend.

I have spent a fair bit of time with her over the past few months, 
helping her to go through her extensive files, video and audio, to 
ensure that these materials will be properly preserved long into the 
future. Community Rights USwill become the depository for these 
significant archives.

You can show her the respect that she so well deserves by devoting some 
time to reading her dozens of truly extraordinary essays from her 
website, DemocracyThemePark.org 
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And by sharing them widely with others.

Here’s one of my favorite essays of hers, from 1998 - as necessary for 
us to pay attention to today as it was 21 years ago!

  * Help, I’ve Been Colonized and I Can’t Get Up (Take a lawyer and
    an expert to a hearing and call me in a decade…)
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Reflections on Community Rights
from Rural America

On Becoming More Than One Person
by Curt Hubatch

[Note: We're trying out a new column by CR activist and organizer Curt 
Hubatch. Curt is an unschooling father of two young children and one 
young adult. Currently he works as a substitute rural letter carrier for 
the USPS. He lives in a cordwood house that he built with his wife, 
family and friends in Northwestern Wisconsin. One day while delivering 
mail, he heard a talk by historian Richard Grossman, and ever since he’s 
had his hand in the effort to elevate Community Rights over corporate 
"rights".]

Two years ago, while driving down a country roadand listening to an 
interview with Derrick Jensen by the environmental philosopher Kathleen 
Dean Moore, Derrick asked her: “What can one person do about all the 
atrocities, injustices, and ugliness around us?” I skidded the mail jeep 
to a stop, found a safe spot on the side of the road, and wrote down her 
answer.
"Don't become one person", she said.
Wow! Over the last two years Moore’s compelling message has brought me 
to this conclusion: “Don’t become one person” is essential when it comes 
to becoming the change I want to see—the change WE want to see.

For me, back in February of 2017, I organized a 3-hour introductory to 
Community Rights talk with Paul Cienfuegos in my community.

>From that evening on I became more than one person. I became three, then 
later five, and we now call ourselves the Washburn County Community 
Rights Alliance (WCCRA).

We’ve been meeting for close to two years now, had documentary showings, 
organized workshops and talks to educate the public. We’ve introduced a 
Climate Bill of Rights at the Township level. People have run for local 
office. Most importantly we’ve gotten to know each other quite well.

Before forming our alliance (WCCRA) I faced the atrocities, injustices, 
and ugliness often feeling alone… being just one person.It’s a heavy 
burden to feel separated and disconnected knowing that democracy and 
sustainability are illegal in the place I call home.

A shared burden and commitment lighten the load when I sometimes revert 
back to thinking “It’s all up to me.”

I’m immediately relieved because -- thanks to my team members -- I know 
I'm not alone in this struggle for a sane and sustainable world that our 
children and grandchildren can inherit.

And thank you, Kathleen Dean Moore. You were onto something to be sure.

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