Category Archives: Community Rights

100 Grannies – What We Do

You can view our latest presentation in PDF format [View PDF] or you can see the slides below as images. Click any slide for a larger gallery slideshow view.

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Lakota People’s Law Project

  Dear Miriam, I recently wrote to you about my Tribe’s emergency declaration over Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Children (MMIW/C) and its relation to the Keystone XL pipeline’s (KXL) incoming man camps. Today, I want to highlight another effort … Continue reading

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1 Feb 2020 Climate Crisis Parade more

from Miriam: Dear Parade Friends from Blue Bus #1 & White Bus #2, Thank you to each and every one of you who showed up and stood up and paraded and demanded truth and action. History tells us that “We … Continue reading

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Rebuilding Vulnerable Communities

MEDIA ADVISORY Rebuilding Vulnerable Communities:  Climate, Health, Jobs & Justice  A climate conversation brought to you by Ecomadres, Moms Clean Air Force, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Iowa Farmers Union. Join Us!   Sunday, January 19th @ 2:00 PM … Continue reading

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What is Community Rights? by Paul Cienfuegos

The national Community Rights movement represents a local level cultural and legal strategy for communities, both conservative and progressive, to begin to dismantle corporate rule from the local up! If you’re a single issue activist, as Paul Cienfeugos was for … Continue reading

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Jane Anne Morris Workshop (October 2016)

Part 1 Jane Anne Morris, “Community Rights.” Talk starts at 3:20 Part 2

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Paul Cienfuegos at Iowa City Public Library Tuesday June 14, 2016

Community Rights educator Paul Cienfuegos will join us at the Iowa City Public Library next Tuesday for a presentation. Join us if you can.  Flyer

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Paul Cienfuegos at ICPL 14 June 2016

Paul Cienfuegos at Iowa City Public Library Tuesday  14 June 2016 Community Rights educator Paul Cienfuegos will join us at the Iowa City Public Library next Tuesday for a presentation. Join us if you can. Community Rights Presentation Is a … Continue reading

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Andy Douglas 2-17-16 PC op ed on Community Rights

Community Rights good defense against corporate overreach Factory farms. Fracking. Pipelines. Though these and other unsustainable practices present unhealthy challenges to communities, in the last decade a movement has been growing to tackle these issues in a new way. It … Continue reading

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Iowa Civil Rights History (7 Feb 2016)

1839 In re Ralph- first reported Supreme Court Case in Iowa, Slave was person, not property. (compared to Dred Scott v Sandford, slave = property 1856, overturned 1865 13th Amendment, 1868 14th Amendment)   1851 Iowa is 3rd state to … Continue reading

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