Community Rights
From gas drilling to toxic dumping to water bottling...who makes the rules where you live—corporations or residents? The Community Rights Program assists communities confronted by harmful corporate projects to assert their right to make important decisions that impact them by passing binding laws that place the rights of residents (and nature) above the claimed legal “rights” of corporations. At the heart of the Community Rights Program is the belief that our right to create the kind of place we want to live and reining in corporate exploitation of our communities is the next evolution of the civil rights revolution.
Contact the program:
- Shannon Biggs - Director, Community Rights shannon@globalexchange.org (415) 575-5540
- Kylie Nealis - Assistant, Community Rights kylie@globalexchange.org (415) 575-5551
SPECIAL UPDATE: Community Rights goes to Occupy Wall Street!
On October 26th, Community Rights Program Director Shannon Biggs was invited to speak at two events at Occupy Wall Street in NYC along with fellow community-rights organizer, Ben Price from CELDF. They were asked to share their experiences working with communities daily to assert their rights and subordinate corporations to democractic, citizen-led decision making with those occupying Liberty Plaza. Check out the film recording below of one of their talks and read about it on the Global Exchange blog!