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Jan 29 2012in Academics & Research, Commons, Direct Democracy, FoO Media, Social Innovation by mbsteisslingerTags: Citizens United, creative demonstrations, Education, inner work, Outreach, Pittsburgh, street theater, thinking together, working groups
On Jan 21, 2012, Occupy sites around the US and the world demonstrated in solidarity with members of the 99%. They spoke out against the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court’s decision, Citizens United, which gave corporations the rights of “Free Speech”… code for unlimited corporate contributions for political elections and favor mongering. A blogger named Kevin, [...]
Tags: Citizens United, creative demonstrations, Education, inner work, Outreach, Pittsburgh, street theater, thinking together, working groups
Dec 11 2011in Direct Democracy, Social Innovation by mbsteisslingerTags: Bill of Rights Template, By and For the People, commons law, cooperation across boundaries, economic oppression, local communities, local sovereignty, municipal collaboration, people power, Pittsburgh, self governance, shale gas regions
Jeff Reifman, Envision Seattle and Thomas Linzey, Esq of Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) recently posted a major message to the Occupy movement, both a warning and a challenge… “Mainstream progressive groups have failed by constraining their activities within legal and regulatory systems purposefully structured to subordinate communities to corporate power. Real movements don’t operate that way. Abolitionists never sought to regulate [...]
Tags: Bill of Rights Template, By and For the People, commons law, cooperation across boundaries, economic oppression, local communities, local sovereignty, municipal collaboration, people power, Pittsburgh, self governance, shale gas regions
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