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On Community Civil Disobedience in the Name of Sustainability: The Community Rights Movement in the United States

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Linzey, Thomas; Campbell, Anneke

 
9781629631264: On Community Civil Disobedience in the Name of Sustainability: The Community Rights Movement in the United States

Synopsis

Right now, several hundred communities across the United States aren't waiting for the power brokers to fix the broken political system that has brought humanity to the brink of economic and environmental collapse. They're doing it themselves by seizing political authority within their own municipalities and making binding laws to transform this system into a sustainable one. In doing so, they are taking on the basic operating system of America and changing it into one which recognises a right to local, community self-government that corporations cannot override.

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À propos des auteurs

Created in 1995, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) has assisted over five hundred municipal governments and community organizations to draft and adopt new local laws that assert the right of the people of those communities to stop corporate factory farms, waste dumping, corporate water withdrawals, and fracking. As part of its legal defense of those laws, the Legal Defense Fund asserts that the right of local, community self-government is a constitutional right woven into the fabric of American law, and that legal doctrines, such as corporate constitutional "rights" must yield to the doctrine.



Thomas Linzey serves as Senior Counsel for the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER), an organization committed to globally advancing environmental rights. He is the co-founder of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), and is widely recognized as the founder of the contemporary "community rights" movement which has resulted in the adoption of several hundred municipal laws across the United States. He also sits on the Board of Advisors of the New Earth Foundation.

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