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Populist Dialogues - 13-32 - Ending Corporate Rule via Local Community Rights Movements

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Tue, 09/03/2013 - 3:00pm
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Paul Cienfuegos returns for part 2 of our discussion of creating local community rights movements to prevent usually large national and multinational corporations from dominating our democracy. Paul reviews the history of the regulatory box designed by corporate interests to regulate the peoples' participation in decision-making. He also discusses the movement to give nature rights, enforceable by citizens and looks at how the community rights movement is developing here in Oregon.

Populist Dialogues - 13-31 - Challenging Corporate Rule via Ordinance

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Tue, 09/03/2013 - 2:57pm
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Community Rights organizer Paul Cienfuegoes wants to reduce or eliminate corporate rule by engaging communities to enact community rights ordinance which says that corporations are prohibited from engaging in certain activities in local communities, many times in direct contradiction to state or federal law. Paul discuss successes in American local communities as well as internationally. Part 1 of 2 part series