On Community Civil Disobedience In The Name Of Sustainability: The Community Rights Movement in the United States
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
On Community Civil Disobedience In The Name Of Sustainability: The Community Rights Movement in the United States
By (Author) Thomas Linzey
By (author) Anneke Campbell
PM Press
PM Press
9th November 2015
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
322.430973
Physical Properties
Paperback
60
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
98g
Description
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.
Author Bio
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.
