Dear friend,
In today's Liberty Tree news we bring you updates from the exciting movement for greater Community Democracy.
Across the country and around the world a growing number of cities, towns, villages, and counties are resisting the growing corporate assault on our environment, civil liberties, and economic future.
They are using eminent domain to restore residents to their homes. They are invoking home rule powers to regulate toxins and mining. They are protecting undocumented immigrants, raising wages, and nullifying federal drug laws. And many are under attack, facing emergency management laws and preemption actions intended to subdue “power from below.”
Read on for a sampling of some of the many efforts communities
are engaged in to take back power for the people: