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We the People : Stories From the Community Rights Movement in the United States by Anneke Campbell, Anneke Campbell, Thomas Linzey, Thomas Linzey is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is We the People : Stories From the Community Rights Movement in the United States about?

We the People offers powerful portraits of communities across the United States that have faced threats from environmentally destructive corporate projects and responded by successfully banning those projects at a local level. We hear the inspiring voices of ordinary citizens and activists practicing a cutting-edge form of organizing developed by the nonprofit law firm, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). Their methodology is an answer for the frustrations of untold numbers of activists who have been defeated time and again by corporate political power and legal entitlement. Instead of fighting against what we don't want, this book can teach us to create from the ground up what we do want, basing our vision in local control and law. By refusing to cooperate with the unjust laws that favor corporate profit over local sustainability, communities can show the way forward, driving their rights into state constitutions and, eventually, into the federal Constitution. In communities from New Hampshire to Oregon, new forms of local organizing have sprung up to fight fracking, mining, dumping of toxic waste, and industrial agriculture, among other environmental assaults.

Who reads We the People : Stories From the Community Rights Movement in the United States?

Author

Anneke Campbell, Anneke Campbell, Thomas Linzey, Thomas Linzey

Publisher

PM Press : Made available through hoopla

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9782016948149

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Law, Political Science, Social Science