Go TPP Free! Good
news!
• More
than 100
resolutions
against the
TPP
have been passed
or introduced at
the state and
local level.
• More than 100
resolutions
against TPP were
passed at Iowa
precinct
caucuses.
How about 100
more? To find
out how to pass
your own local
resolution, see
our TPP
Free Zone
page.
Check
out this
map to see
where resolutions and
TPP Free Zones have
passed or are in
progress. If
your community has
passed a TPP Free
Zone resolution, let
us know! Email Barbara Clancy
at the Alliance office.
We are proud to
support Local
Water Alliance's
work to block a proposed
bottling plant in Cascade
Locks, OR. Read about
their ballot campaign here,
and watch this video from
the Story of Stuff
Project.
Protecting a
river and a
people
The Penobscot
Nation is fighting the
state's claim that their
lands do not include
adjacent waters. "The
Penobscot: Ancestral
River, Contested
Terretory,"a new
documentary by
Sunlight Media Collective,
looks at Penobscot history
and organizing to keep the
river a source of life
rather than a resource to be
exploited for profit.
"All
Power... ...is
inherent in the
people; all free
governments are
founded in their
authority and
instituted for their
benefit... they have
therefore an
unalienable and
indefensible right
to institute
government and to
alter, reform or
totally change the
same when their
safety and happiness
require it."
Article
1 & 2, Maine
Constitution
What
are Local Food and
Community Self
Governance Ordinances? Local
Food and Community Self
Governance Ordinances allow
towns to protect the
economic relationships
between farmers, food
producers and consumers by
saying that the right to
regulate sales and safety
lies with town government,
not with federal authorities
who craft regulation to
benefit big agriculture,
factory farms, and
industrial producers. These
ordinances, now in force in
17 Maine towns, are part of
a national food freedom
movement, and a global push
for food sovereignty. Click
on the map to find out
more.
Join
AfD Now!
Your membership includes Justice Rising.
Some great writers have
published in Justice
Rising. See the
Author Index here.
Local
Rules for Local
Food: Communities
Hold On To Food,
Tradition and
Democracy
Following passage of Local
Food and Community Self
Governance Ordinances in
several Maine towns,
farmers and food policy
advocates are organizing
to protect food systems
that embrace innovation
and experimentation,
restore ecosystems and
work with nature, and put
the human right to food
ahead of agribusiness,
agrochemical, and
distributer profits,
turning local
government into what
Supreme Court Justice
Brandeis famously termed
“laboratories of
democracy.”
This issue of Justice
Rising looks at this
growing movement to
protect the traditional
ways we produce, share,
and sell food, and how
defending foodways can
catalyze action for
economic justice,
sustainability, and
community rights.
Read the complete
issue or download single
articles. Our members get
a free subscription—join
today!
Alliance for
Democracy sponsors two
local groups working
on public banking
projects in Washington
DC, and in Boston. We
also published an
edition of Justice
Rising on "Banking for
Maine Street, Not Wall
Street," with articles
by Gwendolyn
Hallsmith, Ellen
Brown, Ira B. Dember,
Steve Seuser, Jeremy
Mohler and Tom
Sgouros, as well as
Alliance writers and
activists Ruth Caplan
and Jim Tarbell. Our
Public Banking
page links
you to that issue of
Justice Rising, to the
latest news, and to
allies' websites.
NO
TPP!
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