Are we simply stuck with politics as usual, or can we change?

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3. The Community Rights movement is one solution

Unfortunately it requires a lot of participation. And it tackles one issue at a time, community by community.

Already some 150 communities have used the Community Rights movement to bring about a needed change in their situation, or else a protection for how things are and should remian.

In Pittsburgh PA, Community Rights organizers put an initiative on the ballot that banned the three proposed fracking wells that would have come in and more than likely decimated the city water supply. Other fracking attempts in the future are also nixed by this legally adopted proposal.

Also in PA, a mostly Republican Community Rights group banned a 14,000 industrial pig farm from coming into their community.

Here in Lake County Calif., we are putting "The Right to Grow" on the ballot and it will be just that. No longer will some Federal Agent or state agent be able to hassle some organic farmer, telling them that they have to keep wildlife off their property. (As has been the case in other areas of California.)

If the measure passes, if you have the right to be on a piece of property, and you have some seeds, it is your right to grow those seeds.

Here is one link to finding out more about this movement:

http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-12-18/a-new-movement-for-community-self-determination-over-corporate-rights

You can also google Paul Cienfuegos, and "community rights" to find out evenmore.