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Aug 16, 2011
Envision Spokane’s Brad Read on the “Community Bill of Rights” Initiative.
Read More | UncategorizedNov 16, 2010
Today, the Pittsburgh City Council unanimously adopted an ordinance banning corporations from conducting shale gas drilling in the city.
Read More | Community Wires, Press Releases & Blogs, Success StoryNov 10, 2010
“Drilling opponents and supporters can all agree that if Marcellus Shale development proceeds, it should happen in a manner that protects workers, the environment and communities.”
Read More | UncategorizedNov 7, 2010
Blaine Township is a small rural township some 45 miles west of Pittsburgh, in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Western Pennsylvania has been mining coal for 250 years, but no mining has occurred in Blaine and its residents and township supervisors aim to keep it that way.
Read More | Community WiresSep 16, 2010
Apr 6, 2006
The story of how two communities changed their thinking and their strategies, and became the first to adopt rights-based ordinances banning water privatization.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 9, 2005
Early in the 20th Century, giant corporations like Woolworth’s, Sears Roebuck, J.C. Penney, Ligget, and A&P began forcing their chain stores into communities across the nation. The chains were unwelcome. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, people in towns from coast to coast banded together to stop this corporate invasion, only to be beaten back by corporations and the federal government.
Read More | Press Releases & BlogsAug 30, 1930
The attitude of the well-to-do classes toward local self-government was profoundly influenced by the extension of the suffrage…the removal of property qualifications tended to divest the old ruling class of its control in local affairs.
Read More | Resource LinksDec 15, 0200
“Democracy Matters” Podcast for the week of Dec 13: A Debate on WikiLeaks, and featuring Part II of our interview with Professor Christopher Stone, author of “Should Trees Have Standing?”
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