On Community Civil Disobedience in the Name of Sustainability : the Community Rights Movement in the United States by Fund, The Community Environmental Legal Defense instant download

On Community Civil Disobedience in the Name of Sustainability : the Community Rights Movement in the United States by Fund, The Community Environmental Legal Defense instant download

1 online resource (65 pages), This short primer from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund explores and describes the philosophy and underpinnings of the community rights movement that has emerged in the United States-a movement of nonviolent civil disobedience based on municipal lawmaking. Humanity stands at the brink of global environmental and economic collapse. We have pinned our future to an economic system that centralizes power in fewer and fewer hands, and whose benefits increasingly flow to smaller and smaller numbers of people. Our system of government is similarly medieval-relying on a 1780s constitutio, Print version record, Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; One: Why Environmental and Labor Laws Protect Neither the Environment nor Workers; Two:Why and How the U.S. Constitution Protects Property and Commerce; Three:Energizing and Accelerating Necessary Constitutional Change; Four:Driving the Local into the State; Five:Driving the Local and the State Upward into the National; Six:An Invitation; Notes; About CELDF