Dear Readers,

Would you like to learn how to protect your community from corporations and their fracking, sewage sludge, factory farm and GMO crop operations?

Oregon Community Rights organizer and educator, Paul Cienfuegos, wants to help mobilize counties in Oregon to create Community Rights-based laws to protect sustainable agriculture, by offering his introductory Community Rights workshops to OCA supporters. 

The virtual workshops are three hours long, followed by a 90-minute live group call with Paul to answer your questions. Find more information about the workshops here and about Paul’s Community Rights work here. 

About Paul Cienfuegos and Community Rights Laws

Paul is a regional leader of the Community Rights movement in the Pacific Northwest. He helped both Benton and Lane counties launch local food ordinances to ban GMO crops and protect sustainable agriculture in the Willamette Valley. Both initiatives will be on the ballot in May 2014. Multnomah County is about to launch a similar campaign. 

These ordinances utilize the Community Rights approach to create locally enforceable rights-based laws that strip corporations of their ability to force harmful activities such as fracking, sewage sludge and GMO crops on local communities. 

There are now 150 towns and counties in nine states that have passed such laws, and the Community Rights movement is taking off across the country. 

Could your community be next? Sign up for a workshop and find out!

Sign up for a workshop 

Watch a Benton County farmer describe how the county’s “Sustainable Food System Ordinance” goes beyond a simple GMO ban, creating a locally enforceable, rights-based law that trumps corporate "rights". See more great talks and interviews on the Community Rights TV YouTube channel.

Watch Paul’s speech at the March Against Monsanto rally in Portland. 

-    Alexis, Melinda and the rest of the OCA team