Article: Bill of Rights Template for Occupy Communities
source: http://www.wiserearth.org/article/aafba810e938dc226a32645de8eff850/new/1/group/GrandPlan
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 19:44:03 -0800
Subject: Model Community Bill of Rights Template for Occupy Communities
From: Jeff Reifman
We're offering this model Community Bill of Rights template for Occupy
communities that wish to begin mobilized initiative campaigns in their
region. Think of the template as a menu to pick and choose what's
important in your community. It's meant to provide a framework and a
starting point, not necessarily to be used in its entirety. The text
is derived from ongoing national and global work by the Community
Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) such as Ecuador adding Rights
for Nature to its Constitution, Pittsburgh stripping drilling
corporations of corporate constitutional "rights," such as corporate
"personhood" and Spokane's Community Bill of Rights initiative which
narrowly missed passing by 1,000 votes last month. Those efforts have
joined over a hundred other municipal campaigns that have driven into
law local bills of rights.
Read the whole post and the model Community Bill of Rights template:
http://envisionseattle.org/2011/12/model-community-bill-of-rights-template-for-o...
View and use from Google Docs:
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1Pu71zzggB_qqDlf2FNfobFy2P10jTIXJd2qxBE_...
Download the PDF:
http://envisionseattle.org/files/Model-Community-Bill-of-Rights-Template.pdf
Subject: Model Community Bill of Rights Template for Occupy Communities
From: Jeff Reifman
We're offering this model Community Bill of Rights template for Occupy
communities that wish to begin mobilized initiative campaigns in their
region. Think of the template as a menu to pick and choose what's
important in your community. It's meant to provide a framework and a
starting point, not necessarily to be used in its entirety. The text
is derived from ongoing national and global work by the Community
Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) such as Ecuador adding Rights
for Nature to its Constitution, Pittsburgh stripping drilling
corporations of corporate constitutional "rights," such as corporate
"personhood" and Spokane's Community Bill of Rights initiative which
narrowly missed passing by 1,000 votes last month. Those efforts have
joined over a hundred other municipal campaigns that have driven into
law local bills of rights.
Read the whole post and the model Community Bill of Rights template:
http://envisionseattle.org/2011/12/model-community-bill-of-rights-template-for-o...
View and use from Google Docs:
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1Pu71zzggB_qqDlf2FNfobFy2P10jTIXJd2qxBE_...
Download the PDF:
http://envisionseattle.org/files/Model-Community-Bill-of-Rights-Template.pdf
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- groups:
- Community
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- tags:
- occupy wall street, Community, Rights, Bill of Rights
