Today we continue our conversation with Paul Cienfuegos, Portland organizer working with the Community Rights Movement, started by Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF.org). Paul talks about how communities have grown tired of having their local decision making removed so that corporate projects, which they oppose and don't want, can proceed. Paul discusses the regulatory boxes created by industry to undermine our local decision making. Notes that the environment is currently viewed as property and advocates for giving nature rights. Rights for and of nature give nature enforcement rights. Paul notes that Ecuador has enacted rights of nature into their constitution and talks about the first case there (nature won). And ends the program with discussion of how the community rights movement in Oregon is developing along with the opposition. (Note: this program was recording in August and a little bit of the information is out of date)
