[CRNMC] Local Self-Governance Ordinances - An Assessment Tool That May Be Useful

Tammy Davis tammy at mcn.org
Wed Feb 13 18:41:21 PST 2019 

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On 2/13/2019 6:24 PM, Tammy Davis wrote:
>
> 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 
> <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ooA5XUKNEEI1VxQfLemqivQLzGbwIuH2k6mwoOC6Qzete1huJCi2aQuMJpmSUGhri92hBznpseZT6GmE8IWfcZsdvqh-JjJegiRzbnE3bRB5E7Q-2ldLag5jkP5Z9aspn5CXu9Fl2BTaeUgdE7l1RCTtAetgRTD-Y9HA-0eHAGwth4oS7ECc7aBD-1ZCQ6HGiZNJByEqx1Q0755VsInaMSoFio0xbzhM&c=6lvd5jtgHwJqiu2uD6z8yyDYqfrX5Rth4sbFlDXKjybqPJ46sqXg9g==&ch=8C6HHcsOx6ZryTbKlma1MeYcgPLpfz0CNh_KWiPT3HhvMTGYu4RCQA==> - 
> 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 
> <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ooA5XUKNEEI1VxQfLemqivQLzGbwIuH2k6mwoOC6Qzete1huJCi2aQuMJpmSUGhr4sQrLy-Lw4xA-tOCs08xPvs9RcZJTiqPEjCw1X3hCDNev8cItmngI2q4R4jl2NIwmLZNkVchPawZlydQPIW8rytNYAHWJMNNVoKU_J3r6VFcYd_Z-M_oIksnCMb8Gb3U&c=6lvd5jtgHwJqiu2uD6z8yyDYqfrX5Rth4sbFlDXKjybqPJ46sqXg9g==&ch=8C6HHcsOx6ZryTbKlma1MeYcgPLpfz0CNh_KWiPT3HhvMTGYu4RCQA==>. 
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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 
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> 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.
>
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> 	
>
> 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 
> <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ooA5XUKNEEI1VxQfLemqivQLzGbwIuH2k6mwoOC6Qzete1huJCi2abZWTyoOhn1zm6XAWSWHWyem9mJmSiwtpcXbrnJaJBUk4TG9GSr0DCUlsENMt0z8ghCTLbHnsESCeULyRwF95yEySlFyufoEKqBhIZGV79mb5nXIUfDE44gToRVv2nnx2w==&c=6lvd5jtgHwJqiu2uD6z8yyDYqfrX5Rth4sbFlDXKjybqPJ46sqXg9g==&ch=8C6HHcsOx6ZryTbKlma1MeYcgPLpfz0CNh_KWiPT3HhvMTGYu4RCQA==>in 
> 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."
>
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>
> 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 
> <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ooA5XUKNEEI1VxQfLemqivQLzGbwIuH2k6mwoOC6Qzete1huJCi2aQV-ni0Y0v_wiEI2BSJS1mxkhdF9OTin1tHzIz8wyohRNbCV-cRiY17QT4byO0RQQUG63H4OfmnK5cnaT3L1X09Fd-qJU8MZixO_TP9dfgHpP9rMQ8pecbxHjaRRZT19CdTccgRkwlfzjfQOXRYRO0JWA4mcy44CSad9jLsAlHm8_Dp3fl3x736S3rte2k1ubQm14SOrQ9tchLn8MWJYycVshPd8cozucSmv15oSUTeM6uZGgRFTd5ikpKkN0mhSe8jS5yvjfm10eKWAEF_35FeRQ5c2w3I6AsMc4dkd3ijpzda0Kf0ftLM=&c=6lvd5jtgHwJqiu2uD6z8yyDYqfrX5Rth4sbFlDXKjybqPJ46sqXg9g==&ch=8C6HHcsOx6ZryTbKlma1MeYcgPLpfz0CNh_KWiPT3HhvMTGYu4RCQA==>(1819-2019) 
> 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 
> <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ooA5XUKNEEI1VxQfLemqivQLzGbwIuH2k6mwoOC6Qzete1huJCi2aQuMJpmSUGhr6LwsT7iEjkRTS4utTyPfMdqheswjq0GWOFFmZy82mS5kQZWUFdvFSOmG5wxODGurgOSM23Y_zsfvGkP9VvzT4PzpTSF5QrBKXpH-W4FbsrKiqdpTor6YIQ==&c=6lvd5jtgHwJqiu2uD6z8yyDYqfrX5Rth4sbFlDXKjybqPJ46sqXg9g==&ch=8C6HHcsOx6ZryTbKlma1MeYcgPLpfz0CNh_KWiPT3HhvMTGYu4RCQA==>on 
> February 28th, and in Madison WI 
> <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ooA5XUKNEEI1VxQfLemqivQLzGbwIuH2k6mwoOC6Qzete1huJCi2aQuMJpmSUGhrlADCOWeI4SfOykdWA9lT6SLa35KuGbNAoBcC1GNgDnlsSxlNF5ntVsoj0wm9rQN4tI3B4R2bLMM2QE2A5sngFA==&c=6lvd5jtgHwJqiu2uD6z8yyDYqfrX5Rth4sbFlDXKjybqPJ46sqXg9g==&ch=8C6HHcsOx6ZryTbKlma1MeYcgPLpfz0CNh_KWiPT3HhvMTGYu4RCQA==>on 
> 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 
> <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ooA5XUKNEEI1VxQfLemqivQLzGbwIuH2k6mwoOC6Qzete1huJCi2aQuMJpmSUGhrUVmX5o1jiSJ2Nab82-hqqYOzuD6RsdxhvlOKOiZ22QbD3EeeN6qhRCw9wmvsxMd3umJQmffzg0an8yzd0D_Kbso4w8A87y2N3-XmeUojKr8=&c=6lvd5jtgHwJqiu2uD6z8yyDYqfrX5Rth4sbFlDXKjybqPJ46sqXg9g==&ch=8C6HHcsOx6ZryTbKlma1MeYcgPLpfz0CNh_KWiPT3HhvMTGYu4RCQA==>. 
>
>
> 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 
> <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ooA5XUKNEEI1VxQfLemqivQLzGbwIuH2k6mwoOC6Qzete1huJCi2aQuMJpmSUGhrbw8QU37bb-OU-DCXg1DUeKKZ9hlHAnKgBCG1q1j2uDOLTJuBVHrzNkzm5BrqjrHpf8lp2Qidg2Mh1jT9bDfYOmAzC-YM5ikDnshGvtNnG9WSbGvl3yzCIcTBBhSUW-vM0k6OLagwvrco76EfRaaExDiZNB1sRPRHGC8kAxvKB0CHuARKNybLhAXsMjJk9rnUGP4YjvlT_YQt7wMyWPx0EA==&c=6lvd5jtgHwJqiu2uD6z8yyDYqfrX5Rth4sbFlDXKjybqPJ46sqXg9g==&ch=8C6HHcsOx6ZryTbKlma1MeYcgPLpfz0CNh_KWiPT3HhvMTGYu4RCQA==>. 
>
> 
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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
>     <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ooA5XUKNEEI1VxQfLemqivQLzGbwIuH2k6mwoOC6Qzete1huJCi2aQV-ni0Y0v_wiEI2BSJS1mxkhdF9OTin1tHzIz8wyohRNbCV-cRiY17QT4byO0RQQUG63H4OfmnK5cnaT3L1X09Fd-qJU8MZixO_TP9dfgHpP9rMQ8pecbxHjaRRZT19CdTccgRkwlfzjfQOXRYRO0JWA4mcy44CSad9jLsAlHm8_Dp3fl3x736S3rte2k1ubQm14SOrQ9tchLn8MWJYycVshPd8cozucSmv15oSUTeM6uZGgRFTd5ikpKkN0mhSe8jS5yvjfm10eKWAEF_35FeRQ5c2w3I6AsMc4dkd3ijpzda0Kf0ftLM=&c=6lvd5jtgHwJqiu2uD6z8yyDYqfrX5Rth4sbFlDXKjybqPJ46sqXg9g==&ch=8C6HHcsOx6ZryTbKlma1MeYcgPLpfz0CNh_KWiPT3HhvMTGYu4RCQA==> events
>     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
>
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> 	
>
> Years before it was even called the Community Rights movement, there 
> was the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy 
> <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ooA5XUKNEEI1VxQfLemqivQLzGbwIuH2k6mwoOC6Qzete1huJCi2aQuMJpmSUGhrh9wZ-Vo8rXAr7Qy8lG2zfWB5Vnnhw1qjUD3w6dgygJ2ILNPgL0mAUQw5GqIdLOIHHg3e-qt1sRg=&c=6lvd5jtgHwJqiu2uD6z8yyDYqfrX5Rth4sbFlDXKjybqPJ46sqXg9g==&ch=8C6HHcsOx6ZryTbKlma1MeYcgPLpfz0CNh_KWiPT3HhvMTGYu4RCQA==>. 
>
>
> 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 
> <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ooA5XUKNEEI1VxQfLemqivQLzGbwIuH2k6mwoOC6Qzete1huJCi2aQuMJpmSUGhrdQgusfllafAjaBjv-TqNpjT90zExG5wMFD4_JvChJQfLB_0g1OWkTAx797f7s5AHdftVpFOz0-0=&c=6lvd5jtgHwJqiu2uD6z8yyDYqfrX5Rth4sbFlDXKjybqPJ46sqXg9g==&ch=8C6HHcsOx6ZryTbKlma1MeYcgPLpfz0CNh_KWiPT3HhvMTGYu4RCQA==>, to 
> 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 
> <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ooA5XUKNEEI1VxQfLemqivQLzGbwIuH2k6mwoOC6Qzete1huJCi2aQuMJpmSUGhrBXOBgppvlrPcy8cMje5lS7bPLfoX5MmIGxFP9Rafu27zKiHWngsuIvDpJ7plFNVkmRA0gpPO0kZFJ-Ok3KdynwKrIsnjv2zz&c=6lvd5jtgHwJqiu2uD6z8yyDYqfrX5Rth4sbFlDXKjybqPJ46sqXg9g==&ch=8C6HHcsOx6ZryTbKlma1MeYcgPLpfz0CNh_KWiPT3HhvMTGYu4RCQA==>. 
> 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…)
>     <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ooA5XUKNEEI1VxQfLemqivQLzGbwIuH2k6mwoOC6Qzete1huJCi2aQuMJpmSUGhri-2zVwDeBjPWvA2DAyflw2CWM1rpuluJlKDfcN3JwNqfRYbfxFVgsRlSHyxbILO8srfv_X7EJX4bBuQ4gLQ3lIN5TyxqyyzPPgEIEAQyIG8-Nh4_SBu_WpRMawOEYqQd0EZCGw4wiJhZJHLql2BMDQ==&c=6lvd5jtgHwJqiu2uD6z8yyDYqfrX5Rth4sbFlDXKjybqPJ46sqXg9g==&ch=8C6HHcsOx6ZryTbKlma1MeYcgPLpfz0CNh_KWiPT3HhvMTGYu4RCQA==>
>
>
> I ask that you not contact Jane Anne directly, unless you already have 
> a relationship with her. Instead, if you’d like to share your own 
> appreciations with her, please reply via this email 
> <mailto:paul at communityrights.us>, and I will gather all of the 
> messages in a single email for her to read. Thank you.
>
> 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.
>
> Essential CR News from the Web
>
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>
> Minnesota tribe asks: Can wild rice have its own legal rights? 
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>
> Ohio Community Members File Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit 
> <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ooA5XUKNEEI1VxQfLemqivQLzGbwIuH2k6mwoOC6Qzete1huJCi2aQuMJpmSUGhrfhgAPo1x00eVcumVUDny9Ikd89jBbPez6rR9dyIKU4d0acy5UTFN1D9GcWTQ4ebD_ycUWe4wM56nRDEZ8R-LA1qRFeeXRNlAXOG8XcDCBhxsEBUc8UEeMoTMkR-zC7h8dsM1UxmEO-TQLBSNfBp0fzA3pfWahy09hb5Ozmpum4_NGNlF1OT8Gpfo505TYyvfCoLORnDTabs=&c=6lvd5jtgHwJqiu2uD6z8yyDYqfrX5Rth4sbFlDXKjybqPJ46sqXg9g==&ch=8C6HHcsOx6ZryTbKlma1MeYcgPLpfz0CNh_KWiPT3HhvMTGYu4RCQA==>
>
> Turag River in Bangladesh given ‘legal person’ status to save it from 
> encroachment 
> <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ooA5XUKNEEI1VxQfLemqivQLzGbwIuH2k6mwoOC6Qzete1huJCi2aQuMJpmSUGhrWfKZ1IxPhefyM8-gSgefBQQgmxTzXTWSo0EVxH0EBLrILb2fTRbTgHi7zTRTTiRgFrEORFFtB8YwKt_5hEuQjqw_7sEVsqcnkNXC1sU9EZJmH7uIGtdFmRbKP99IyhgGGx6poq5R22MH_pn7N5LV2tn6_Zz2C_0Qw8-CjbfbYy75AXbj0IXiC2_Mz_fFnmaW&c=6lvd5jtgHwJqiu2uD6z8yyDYqfrX5Rth4sbFlDXKjybqPJ46sqXg9g==&ch=8C6HHcsOx6ZryTbKlma1MeYcgPLpfz0CNh_KWiPT3HhvMTGYu4RCQA==>
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> Populism Is Not a Four-Letter Word 
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>
> Ohio Supreme Court has affirmed that Toledoans get to vote on a 
> proposed Lake Erie Bill of Rights 
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