Community Rights Workshop

Kai Huschke, CELDF Northwest and Hawaii Community Organizer

Why do we almost never win against corporations targeting our communities?

Simple.  Corporations and their allies have been busy manufacturing a structure of law over the last 150 years that insulates these institutions and their supporters from community control.

• Why conventional activism is not up to the job for the changes needed
• Corporate controlled legal box contains our communities
• Origins of the right of local self government and corporate rights
• Building a new peoples’ movement:  Community Rights
• What it will take to build and protect a viable and sustainable Gig Harbor

Residents of Gig Harbor are working to protect Puget Sound.  Recognizing that we live under a structure of law and governance that makes sustainability illegal, we are joining together to explore the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund Community Rights as a strategy to create the communities that we envision.  Sponsored by Citizens for the Preservation of Gig Harbor.