Aaron Swartz Suicide. Fighting Bob - GarveyBlog - Dominion of the sovereign. July 30, 2005 Dominion of the sovereign Look up eminent domain in the dictionary and you will be surpised to read the definition: "The dominion of the sovereign power over all property within the state by which it can appropriate private property for public use for just compensation.
" Okay, that is pretty straight-forward. The "sovereign"--the state or other governmental body, acting with the power of kings of old, can seize any private property for "public use. " In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supremes ruled that public use includes the government seizing private property for private developers. You know. Anti-Fracking Activists' Secret War, With the World in the Balance.
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Protesters demonstrating against hydraulic fracturing at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, New York, January 23, 2012. (Photo: Nathaniel Brooks / The New York Times)There’s a war going on that you know nothing about between a coalition of great powers and a small insurgent movement. It’s a secret war being waged in the shadows while you go about your everyday life. In the end, this conflict may matter more than those in Iraq and Afghanistan ever did.
And yet it’s taking place far from newspaper front pages and with hardly a notice on the nightly news. The weaponry may be humdrum, but the stakes couldn’t be higher. All summer long, the climate-change nightmares came on fast and furious. Washington’s leadership, when it comes to climate change, is already mired in failure. Frack Fight 2012 New York isn’t just another state. Fight corporate personhood. Greetings to all & welcome! You can sign up for my upcoming 2-1/2 hour introductory teleconference workshop, or my 16-hour teleconference workshop intensive (two hours/week for eight weeks) HERE..... Paul Cienfuegos. Paul Cienfuegos. What is Community Rights? by Paul Cienfuegos. Paul Cienfuegos at WA State Labor Council, 1 of 3 M2U01778.MPG. Paul Cienfuegos : We The People 5/16/11. My Schedule of Workshops & Talks. Upcoming Events: During most of the period that Occupy Portland's downtown encampment existed, in the Fall of 2011, I led 2.5-hour mini-workshops there in their Library Workshop tent once or twice each week, usually attended by 8 to 20 folks at a time, to help this fast growing occupation to think strategically about what their larger goals should be.
When the Mayor shut down the camp, I started leading the workshops all over the city in people's homes, and continued doing so for many months afterwards. In January 2012, four of us co-founded Community Rights PDX, and I (and two new trainees) continued to lead these orientation 2-hour workshops across the city in service to the capacity building of our fledgling group. (We launched our website in 2013.) Confirmed dates for this ongoing workshop series in Portland include: • Saturday, March 15th, 10am (sharp) to noon, in NE Portland in a private home (446 NE Fargo, just east of MLK Blvd), led by Kenny Jones.
Fall 2014 in Portland, Oregon: Bellingham Community Bill of Rights. BALLOT TITLE FOR CITY OF BELLINGHAM INITIATIVE No. 2012-2 City of Bellingham Initiative No. 2012-2 concerns the people’s right of self-government.
This measure would establish the sovereignty of Bellingham residents, the rights of natural communities, and rights to a sustainable energy future and a healthy climate; prohibit corporations from transporting coal in the City; deny legal personhood and constitutional rights to corporate violators; deny the use of federal and state preemptive law to corporate violators; deny the validity of contrary permits; authorize private party civil enforcement actions; and repeal all inconsistent provisions of existing City ordinances. “Should this measure be enacted into law?” Yes? ______ No? ______ Bellingham Community Bill of Rights. Coal-Free Bellingham’s ordinance is about elevating the rights of people, communities, and nature above those of corporations, property, and commerce.
“Current environmental regulatory structures are mostly about “permitting” certain harms to occur – acting more to legalize the activities of corporations and other business entities than to protect our natural and human communities.” - Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund 1. Considering nature as “property” means it will continue to be exploited and destroyed.
Existing environmental laws are supported by a legal structure that favors corporations, property and commerce over people, communities and nature. Part of the reason for the failure of current environmental laws is that under those laws, ecosystems and the other riches of nature are not deemed to have any value in themselves. 2. In our legal system as it stands, the above statement is not true. 3. Here is another guideline that our legal system does not follow. 4. Longmont drill ban flames anti-frack forces on eve of "prosper" rally. By Bruce FinleyThe Denver Post Posted: 11/13/2012 12:01:00 AM MST|Updated: about a year ago A small crowd attended a concert and rally against hydraulic fracturing in Denver's Civic Center Park Tuesday night, October 22, 2012.
The controversial method of extracting gas and petroleum is more commonly known as fracking. The event drew celebrities such as actressed Darryl Hannah and Mariel Hemingway and musician Jakob Dylan. (Karl Gehring, The Denver Post)