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  • From: Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>
  • To: Permaculture ibiblio <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>, PcAList <permacultureactivist@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Overruling Corporate Colonialism
  • Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:59:56 -0500

http://www.celdf.org/Default.aspx?tabid=561

The work of the Community Environment Legal Defense Fund is more important than ever. The history and lessons offered in their pages is the fuel needed to empower effective resistance to corporate dominance in all public arenas. Read every essay linked on this page. You'll learn more in an hour or two than in years of activism. You'll find yourself wildly copying and pasting and posting...and that's good! Please share.
Keith

The Legal Defense Fund has staked out its mission to assist communities and community governments to establish and assert currently denied self-governing rights and authority. The questions I ask everyone who contacts the office seeking help with saying “no” to corporate and state abetted assaults are two: 1) in your community, when it comes to making decisions on issues which directly affect your community, families, neighbors, environment, future generations and quality of life, is it the people affected who make those decisions? If yes, then self-governance and consent of the governed are alive and well where you live. If not, then fundamental rights are being denied you and your community. 2) If the answer is no, then are you prepared to change that, to assert your rights, overcome injustice and establish self-government and consent of the governed where you live, for yourself and for future generations?

Make no mistake. Lost rights and community destruction cannot be overcome by relying on rules and regulations the state “permits” us to use under current law. Whether or not people are prepared to understand and act upon the gravity of our situation is by no means irrelevant. Even among those not yet ready to take a stand and assert local self-governing rights there is little apathy for our plight, but often there is residual hope that by deftly pleading for our rights, the corporate-run State will yield them up to us. Lack of clarity and fear of asserting rights are the main obstacles to creating a People’s Movement to establish and perpetuate fundamental rights. Not everyone is ready to take the necessary bold steps and live up to their obligation to neighbors, the natural environment that sustains all life, and to future generations.

And so we put our resources and energy where we think it will be most effective: in communities where the People have recognized the face of oppression behind the mask of false promises by the corporate state. Our hope is that the inclination to be free is strong enough to finally overcome the inclination to obey illegitimate power while enduring injustice. If that’s the case, strategic triage over where to put our efforts won’t be necessary for long. The time is coming when it will be the rule, not the exception, that communities are ready to assert Rights and establish local self-government at consent of the governed.
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Keith Johnson
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