PDX Community Rights Movement
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| Location | Portland, OR, United States |
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| Introduction | The Community Rights Movement is a national movement of grassroots efforts by every kind of community, and every political shade. Organizing in Portland, OR was started by Paul Cienfuegos in 2011, and is building up quickly. The local group is connecting with as many communities and organizations as possible. This movement first works with communities for envisioning projects to help empower them to come together and craft what they want their communities to look like. The Movements has been successful in helping over 150 communities realize a vision and make it law through ordinances. These ordinances have given communities powers not afforded them by the regulatory process or the politicians beholden too it. Some ordinances outlaw legal corporate endeavors that are harmful to communities and the environment. Others ordinances create process that give communities deciding powers, with what does and does not happen in their jurisdiction and beyond. The power of communities realizing their strength and potential is a extraordinary thing, and the directions that communities can go is limitless. The only question is what ails your community? |
| Favorite books | These are the gems to give your primary attention to if you have the time. Paul keeps all of them in stock at 100Fires.com, or you can special order them from your local bookstore. Be The Change: How to Get What You Want in Your Community by Thomas Linzey with Anneke Campbell, 2009 Building Unions: Past, Present and Future by Peter Kellman, Illustrated by Matt Wuerker, 2001 Citizens Over Corporations: A Brief History of Democracy in Ohio and Challenges to Freedom in the Future (Second Edition) by Ohio Committee on Corporations, Law and Democracy, 2003 Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy: A Book of History and Strategy, by Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD), edited by Dean Ritz, 2001 Divided We Fall: The Story of the Paperworkers' Union and the Future of Labor, by Peter Kellman, 2004 The Elite Consensus: When Corporations Wield the Constitution, by George Draffan, 2000 Fear at Work: Job Blackmail, Labor and the Environment, by Richard Kazis & Richard Grossman, 1991 The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord, by Ray Raphael, 2002 Gaveling Down the Rabble: How "Free Trade" Is Stealing Our Democracy, by Jane Anne Morris, 2008 The Interpretation Game: How Judges and Lawyers Make the Law, by Robert Benson, 2008 Labor's Untold Story: The adventure story of the battles, betrayals and victories of American working men and women, by Richard Boyer & Herbert Morais, 1988 The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America, by Lawrence Goodwyn, 1978 |