Laws and regulations passed by local elected officials and citizen-driven ballot initiatives protecting or expanding the health, safety and/or welfare of residents, the environment, and "democracy" are increasingly overturned by state and federal elected officials and courts. Political, economic, social, environmental and psychological harms are the results. This anti-democratic preemption of local decisions is due to both cultural and constitutional rules protecting property and profit over people and the planet.
Learn about this problem and solutions both from the bottom-up and top-down from two organizations that centralize creating authentic democracy and abolishing corporate constitutional rights.
Striking Down Democracy
Striking Down Democracy
Striking Down Democracy
Laws and regulations passed by local elected officials and citizen-driven ballot initiatives protecting or expanding the health, safety and/or welfare of residents, the environment, and "democracy" are increasingly overturned by state and federal elected officials and courts. Political, economic, social, environmental and psychological harms are the results. This anti-democratic preemption of local decisions is due to both cultural and constitutional rules protecting property and profit over people and the planet.
Learn about this problem and solutions both from the bottom-up and top-down from two organizations that centralize creating authentic democracy and abolishing corporate constitutional rights.
Speaker Timestamps:
— Chad Nicholson, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (Pennsylvania)
— Susie Beiersdorfer, Ohio Community Rights Network
— Debra Fant, Lincoln County Community Rights (Oregon)
— Jessica Munger, Program Director, Move to Amend
— Michael Tucker, Los Angeles Move to Amend
Sponsored by the National Community Rights Network and Move to Amend Coalition