Community Rights Awareness Workshop in Barnstead, NH

• WONDERING WHY CORPORATIONS HAVE MORE POWER THAN LOCAL COMMUNITIES?
• WONDERING WHY STATE GOVERNMENTS PERMIT CORPORATIONS TO HARM COMMUNITIES?
• WONDERING WHY STATE GOVERNMENTS ROUTINELY PREVENT COMMUNITIES FROM LOCAL LAWMAKING DECISIONS THAT ARE IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE COMMUNITY?

In this workshop, we take an in-depth look at how political and legal structures have been set up to protect the interests of an elite wealthy minority, at the expense of the majority of people and community self-government. We’ll look at how corporations have received more rights and protections than real people living in communities, and we’ll look at how communities have pushed back against these oppressive structures to reclaim democratic self-government in their communities, and at the state level with a proposed Community Rights Amendment.

The Community Rights Movement in the Granite State began in Barnstead, with the nearly unanimous adoption of a rights-based community ordinance in 2006, to protect the “Right to Water” by banning commercial water mining. The Movement has spread to other communities across the state seeking to legalize democratic local self-governance in order to protect the health, safety and welfare of both human and natural communities. Barnstead residents picked up the Community Rights torch again in 2016 by enacting the first-in-the-nation "Freedom From Religious ID Requirement" Community Bill of Rights.

NH Community Rights Network (NHCRN) is co-sponsoring this event as part of our Community Rights Awareness Campaign.
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