by magix | Dec 9, 2019 | Community Rights, Coos Commons, Direct Democracy, Oregon Community Rights, Rights of Nature
One of the first things an elected official does upon taking office is to swear an oath to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution. Unfortunately for local communities and the environment, the Commerce Clause, which gives Congress the power “to regulate commerce with...
by magix | Nov 21, 2019 | Community Rights, Rights of Nature
A principal goal of environmental regulatory agencies is to grant permits that enable corporations to legally pollute our air, water and even to destroy whole ecosystems. So it comes as no surprise that the FEIS (Final Environmental Impact Statement) released by the...
by magix | Jul 19, 2019 | National Community Rights, Rights of Nature
Citizens Recognize the Lake Erie Bill of Rights as the Will of the People Jun 27, 2019 Citizens of Toledo, Ohio will be filing a Pro Se Complaint to validate the Lake Erie Bill of Rights at the Lucas County Courthouse, 10 a.m. As citizens of the City of Toledo,...
by magix | Jul 19, 2019 | Oregon Community Rights, Rights of Nature
Tired of being told they can’t say NO to harmful aerial spraying of poisonous herbicides and pesticides the citizens of Lincoln County voted to grant the Siletz Watershed personhood. Since it”s adoption in 2017 no harmful aerial spraying has occured in...
by magix | Oct 27, 2017 | Coos Commons, Rights of Nature
Wednesday evening the Coos Bay Estuary filed a motion to intervene in the FERC proceedings to permit Jordan Cove Energy Partners an export terminal at Jordan Cove along with the accompanying Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline. In the intervention filing, submitted...
by magix | Sep 1, 2015 | Community Rights, Rights of Nature
Existing Environmental Laws Treat Nature as Property By most every measure, the environment today is in worse shape than when the major U.S. environmental laws were adopted over thirty years ago. Since then, countries around the world have sought to replicate these...
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