History
Community Rights Lane County
Together…
Growing a Community Rights Movement
we are activists who grew weary of traditional activism after years of negligible results. We followed the well-worn path that we were expected to follow: writing letters, testifying at hearings, attending protests, and making our voices known to those with decision making authority, only to learn that the game was rigged and that the outcome pre-determined to favor those corporate interests that seek to maximize profits at the expense of our communities.
We formed Community Rights Lane County (CRLC) after attending the 2012 Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund’s (CELDF) Democracy School. The school explained why we had not been able to stop corporate harms from occurring in our communities. Democracy School demonstrates, in depth, the history/workings of corporate control and outlines a fundamental solution to corporate harms and threats. Understanding that true power and decision-making, decreed by our State Constitution, rests with the People spurred us into action.
Since that time we have crafted rights-based initiatives that address our right to a healthy local food system, a right to be free from aerial toxic sprays, and our right to local community self-government. We are working on an ordinace to secure the rights of watersheds, as well. One that protects Lane County Watersheds. CRLC actively builds the local Community Rights movement through educational events like monthly Community Rights Action gatherings.
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