The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Legal Recognition of the Sacredness of the Earth: Rights of Nature The current legal framework supports an unsustainable economic paradigm. It is based on the same principles as limitless growth. In this system, we assume that we can consume endlessly, and there will be no repercussions. We go about our business with the false notion …
Why do secretaries need college degrees now? Despite the fact that only one-third of Americans have them, college degrees have become the new high school diplomas, the baseline everyone in the workforce is assumed to meet. But it’s important to remember why employers can get away with this: They have power, and workers don’t. And …
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Rights to Water and Land, a Common Struggle The declaration on the rights to Water and Land, a Common Struggle, was originally presented at the World Social Forum in Tunis. To date, more than 200 million hectares of land have been grabbed globally by private firms, governments, elites and speculators, often with the support of …
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Voting Rights Have Been Under Attack; But Not How You Think Our American election system is broken in no small part thanks to the primary election system. The Republican and Democratic parties have worked hand-in-hand for over a century to make ‘their’ party primaries the centerpiece of the entire electoral process. In an age where …
An enlightening, intensely researched examination of violations of the constitutional principles that preserve individual rights and civil liberties from courtrooms to classrooms. With telling anecdote and detail, Pulitzer Prize–winner David K. Shipler explores the territory where the Constitution meets everyday America, where legal compromises—before and since 9/11—have undermined the criminal justice system’s fairness, enhanced the …
Local Bill of Rights and Responsibilities This Local Bill of Rights and Responsibilities Template forks and extends the CELDF’s Community Bill of Rights Template (.pdf). The Bill is an innovative legal framework to empower local governance, over one hundred municipal campaigns within the United States and been credited for stopping hydrofracking in several cities and …
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Human Rights Require a Secure Internet Between 15th-19th of September, in the week leading up the first year anniversary of the 13 Necessary and Proportionate Principles, EFF and the coalition behind the Principles will be conducting a Week of Action explaining some of the key guiding principles for surveillance law reform. Every day, we’ll take …
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