"we're living in corporate state" fightbak @ municipal-level!

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I was really moved by this speech by pro-bona lawyer Tom
Linzey. He and Richard Grossman have looked at the history of ,
abolitionist, populist, and progressive, environmental movements
from the civil war to the present, with the goal of forming an
*effective* strategy against the current corporate state.

Linzey's speech is 60min+, but worth it. Pls NOTE: you will probably
want to skip ahead to ~4:40 into the clip.
Here is the parent page.

Notes: Tom Linzey of CELDF and Jack and Valerie of Democracy
New York talk about latest evolution in the battle in rural
Pennsylvania against corporate rights...

Linzey spoke in Montour Falls, NY 7/17/07

Most of the effort discussed is opposition to environmental
dumping, mining waste, sewage sludge disposal, and corporate
farming. When a huge hog farm sets up across the street, it
matter's little whether your left or right wing; either way your
property values drop - the activists in PA were from left & right.

Per Linzey, we've got to fight "head on" against 100 years of
"settled law", corporate law built partially on (ironically)
on the 14th amendment.

Linzey's approach is based on what has worked elsewhere.
He said several states (one of the Dakotas?) have "outlawed
corporate farming". He spends most of the speech emphasizing
that the only effective Way to fight is at the municipal level;
the corporations have "settled law" on their side at the state,
and federal level. A big challenges is to prevent the state
from nullifying municipal law.

I was first inspired by his colleague Richard Grossman,
this is well worth listening to also, if your considering any
activism.

Linzey has started "Democracy Schools" to teach this method of activism.