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Why do the rights of nature matter?
I’m sitting in the audience at a writers’ conference a couple of years ago listening to poets talk about nature. I look forward in this session to being inspired, as I was earlier by Pattiann Rogers, who said, The Earth and … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, Cormac Cullinan, democracy, ecocide, global warming, Mia Nussbaum, Pattiann Rogers, Polly Higgins, rights of nature, writing
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Why do we need a local bill of rights?
You say you never heard of a local bill of rights? You’re not alone. I didn’t know much about it either until I attended Democracy School in February. Local or community bills of rights are ordinances that spell out certain natural rights … Continue reading
Rolling back democracy
We learned in grade school about the Constitutional Convention, right? That summer of 1787 when the founding fathers gathered in Philadelphia to write the US Constitution? Many of us would be shocked to learn that what the framers of the Constitution did … Continue reading
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Tagged Articles of Confederation, Bill of Rights, Constitution, democracy, Democracy School, US history
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It’s a democracy problem
They billed it as the best education dollars I would ever spend, and having spent a lot of education dollars in my time, I now agree. What was it? The Democracy School in town a few weeks ago, otherwise known as … Continue reading