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by: Read The Dirt Posted on: March 16, 2012
“[W]hen self-organization fails, I know that it is not because the collective benefits that could have been obtained were unimportant to the participants” – Elinor Ostrom
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- Jul 27 US Involvement in Guyana Oil, Politics
- Jul 27 Drought Leads to Cattle Grazing on Protected Land
- Jul 27 Immigration Raids – Local Group Steps into Government Void
- Jul 27 Racism in America – Lots of Guns in Small-town Connecticut
- Jul 27 Immigration Enforcement and the Remnants of Colonization
- Jul 27 Local Police Departments Take Axon Enterprise Up On Offer of Free Body Cameras
- Jul 27 Local Media Consolidation – Radio Stations For Sale
- Jul 27 The Cost of Homelessness
- Jul 27 Labor and Workers’ Protections – Small Fine For Violations That Led To Death
- Jul 27 Tight Budget in Oklahoma Heightens Pressure on AT&T to Pay Up
- Jul 27 City Controller Proposes Nation’s 1st 401(k) System for Small Employers
- Jul 27 Op-Ed: Local Utilities and Deregulation – Unregulated Water Utility Created
- Jul 27 Rural City Debates Public Ownership of Homeless Services
- Jul 27 Op-ed: Land Woes in Rural California
- Jul 27 Hundreds of Counties at Risk of Healthcare Industry Flight
- Jul 27 Municipal Finances, Local Source, Connecticut, Issue 1
- Jul 27 Budget Uncertainty
- Jul 27 Local Courts Jockey for State Funds to Deal With Case Backlogs
- Jul 27 Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Helping Counties and Jails Pay Their Bills
- Jul 27 City in Need of Cash Searches for Assets to Sell
- Sep 26 Education Sneak Peek
- Jul 21 Check It Out!
- Jun 5 US Climate Movement: Funnel Money Downward if You Want to Survive
- May 19 Part 2: Jordan Cove LNG Backers Spend Huge Money to Sway Tiny Oregon County Election
- May 2 Part 1: Oregon County Faces Gas Industry Funding, Lobbyists in Battle to Halt Jordan Cove LNG Project
- Mar 10 Get To Know The BATS: Teachers Fighting Privatization
- Mar 6 Re-Imagining Local Public Space, From Parks to Post Offices
- Nov 28 Quote_Robin D.G. Kelley, November, 2016
- Nov 23 Quote_James Baldwin
- Jun 13 The Fight For Local Democracy in New York City
- Jun 8 Quote_Buju Banton
- May 25 Crown Heights Tenant Union: Building Power One Building at a Time in NYC
- May 25 Activists Occupy Shipping Container to Halt AIM Pipeline Construction in Upstate NY
- May 25 Barrington, NH votes 795 to 759 to Adopt Community Bill of Rights to Protect Waterways
- May 25 Revoking The Consent to be Governed
- Apr 25 Announcement of Nationally Coordinated Prisoner Workstoppage for Sept 9, 2016
- Apr 19 The Spirit of Occupy Lives on in France’s Emerging Direct Democracy Movement
- Apr 19 How Sanders Could Lay the Foundation for a Third US Political Party
- Apr 10 Some Possible Ideas for Going Forward
- Apr 7 Reclaiming Black Land in Grafton, New York
- Apr 7 Meet the Lead Organizer Behind the Upcoming Mass Sit-Ins to get Money out of Politics
- Apr 7 Quote_Tupac Shakur
- Apr 7 Quote_Tupac Shakur
- Mar 28 Dismantling Corporate Control Isn’t a Spectator Sport: An Interview With Thomas Linzey
- Mar 16 Preempting Trump: Barnstead, NH Adopts First-In-Nation Law Protecting Against Religious Persecution
- Mar 4 This New Era Of Unrest
- Mar 1 Washington State Supreme Court Guts Local Ballot Initiative Process
- Feb 27 Quote_Pope
- Feb 27 Quote_Robin D. G. Kelley
- Feb 23 Quote_Mair
- Feb 16 Quote_Peter Mair
- Feb 15 Quote_Pablo
- Feb 9 Debating A ‘New’ Pan-European Anti-Austerity Movement
- Feb 9 How New York Stopped A Liquefied Natural Gas Project In Its Tracks
- Feb 8 Quote_Val Napoleon
- Feb 8 Quote_Duke Ellington
- Jan 28 Food, Land, and Freedom
- Jan 27 One Oregon Tribe’s Fight for Federal Recognition
- Jan 20 Worker, Civil and Environmental Rights as Legal Ends: Defying Commerce’s Logic
- Jan 20 Fast-Food Workers Plan Wave Of Strikes For 2016 Primaries
- Jan 18 Quote
- Jan 18 Greece’s Varoufakis to Launch Pan-European Progressive Movement
- Jan 12 For Teachers and Citizens: How to Respond to Federal Immigration Raids
- Jan 6 California’s Largest Tribe Passes First-In-Nation Enforceable Ban On GM-Salmon and GMOs
- Jan 5 How To Respond When Your (Local) Government Gets Sued By A Corporation
- Dec 29 The Leap Manifesto
- Dec 29 “People’s Injunction” Launched to Block Canadian Pipelines
- Dec 29 How Black Lives Matter Came Back Stronger After White Supremacist Attacks
- Dec 29 Can Local Law Enforcement Be Democratized By A People’s Movement?
- Dec 9 Preempting Democracy: What’s Not Being Voted on This November Is Sinister
- Dec 9 A Bill of Rights That Puts Workers Above Corporations
- Dec 9 Government and Gas Industry Team Up Against Local Fracking Ban Initiatives in Ohio
- Dec 9 Fighting Fossils, Letting Go of Regulatory Law
- Aug 26 In Colorado, A Revolutionary New Coalition Stands for Community Rights
- Aug 26 Climate Crisis Pits Local Governments Against 19th-Century Legal Doctrine
- Aug 26 Hundreds of Communities Are Building Legal Blockades to Fight Big Carbon
- Jul 21 Will Labor Go Local?
- Jul 20 Challenging Bedrock Law: “Dillon’s Rule” in Detroit and Beyond
- Jul 19 Defining a Federalist Approach to Immigration Reform
- Jul 18 Why Are Fracking Hopefuls Suing a County in New Mexico?
- May 25 Interview: The Working Class Movement Fighting for Local Authority
- Apr 29 Interview: Challenging Corporations’ ‘Right’ To Grow GMOs in Rural Oregon
- Nov 3 Cancer Clusters Spark Historic Pesticide Vote in Oregon
- Dec 8 Editor’s Introduction: December 2013
- Dec 8 Occupy’s Not So Invisible Work
- Dec 8 The Devil In The Details of Local Law
- Dec 8 Bottled Water Facility Stopped, Local Government Replaced
- Dec 8 Don’t Tread On Us-A Message from Colorado
- Dec 8 Making Sense of Recent Legal History
- Dec 8 Where Push Is Coming To Shove, USA
- Dec 8 Getting Specific About What We Want
- Dec 8 National Sovereignty At Stake
- Dec 8 Finally, The Court Case We’ve All Been Waiting For
- Dec 8 Lessons Learned By A Federal Enforcer
- Dec 8 Sacred Democracy-The Marriage of the Ethical and the Moral
- Dec 8 A Briefing On The State-Owned Bank of North Dakota
- Nov 8 Editor’s Introduction: November 2013
- Nov 8 The First Big Win for the $15 Movement
- Nov 8 A Legal Definition for ‘Unsustainable Energy’?
- Nov 8 Politicizing a Social Worker
- Nov 8 Sacred Democracy-Enlightenment and Democracy
- Nov 8 Washington State attempts to sell Columbia River water for $6 million
- Nov 8 Ohio and Colorado Voters Adopt Community Bills of Rights
- Nov 8 Community Rights Organizer Sets Sights on Fracking in Southern Illinois
- Nov 8 Critical Issues Deserve a Higher Standard
- Nov 7 Indigenous Peoples Experience Of Climate Change And Efforts To Adapt (Video)
- Nov 7 Google Cache Snapshot-Oregonlandco.com, 9/15/13
- Nov 7 Testimony
- Nov 7 Sustainable Forestry Initiative Confirms
- Oct 13 Quote
- Oct 8 Editor’s Introduction: October 2013
- Oct 8 When The State Pushes Back
- Oct 8 The People Know Best, Should We Listen?
- Oct 8 This Crow Won’t Fly
- Oct 8 Sacred Democracy-Democracy: a Work in Progress
- Oct 8 A New County Constitution
- Oct 8 Dispatches from Denmark-Ærø
- Oct 8 Naomi Klein Addresses New ‘Mega Union’
- Oct 8 Disco may be the only way to stop Monsanto (Video)
- Oct 8 Protect The Local Initiative Process-Why Support WA Initiative 517
- Oct 8 (Ohio) Frack-Backers Launch Preemptive Strikes against Democracy Attempt to Block Community Bills of Rights from Voters
- Oct 8 The California Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Speaks to the Need for Wise Immigration Reform
- Oct 8 Support Local Food Rights Will Not Be Deterred by Legislature’s Blow to Democracy
- Oct 8 Economic Sovereignty At Stake
- Oct 8 Sangerville, Maine Adopts Community Bill Of Rights Ordinance to Reject Transportation and Distribution Corridors
- Oct 8 Sacred Headwaters
- Oct 8 Oregon Communities Launch Statewide Network for Community Rights
- Oct 8 Questions for a County Council Could-Be
- Sep 8 Editor’s Introduction: September 2013
- Sep 8 Homeless Bills of Rights-New Narratives
- Sep 8 Colorado Anti-fracking Movement Heating Up!
- Sep 8 Why Label Genetically Modified Food?
- Sep 8 Why Not Label Genetically Modified Food?
- Sep 8 A Brief Chat about Workers’ Rights
- Sep 8 Sacred Democracy-Glimmers of Empathy in the Shadows of History
- Sep 8 Local Initiative Process Gutted
- Sep 8 When Industrial Slaughterhouses Are Proposed
- Sep 8 Bowling Green, OH Group Submits Bill of Rights Petition
- Sep 8 Judgment Day
- Sep 8 Judge Blocks Envision, SMAC Initiatives from Appearing on Ballot
- Sep 8 Why a Rights Based Ordinance In Nottingham, NH?
- Aug 8 Editor’s Introduction: August 2013
- Aug 8 Native Resilience and Interethnic Cooperation: How Natives are adapting to climate change, and helping their non-Native neighbors follow suit
- Aug 8 Obstacles to Asserting Rights
- Aug 8 USA Refuses to Ban Atrazine
- Aug 8 Benton County, OR Moves Forward with Nation’s Potential First Food Bill of Rights
- Aug 8 What is the Local Food System Ordinance of Lane County?
- Aug 8 Lane County Initiative to Protect Local Farming Encounters Hurdle; Campaign Still Targeting May 2014 Election
- Aug 8 ¡HUELGA! Mixteco and Triqui Farmworkers commence second Work Stoppage at Sakuma Brothers Farms, Inc.
- Aug 8 Imagining a New Society: Comparisons from Iceland
- Aug 8 When Public Utility Districts Forget Who They Serve
- Aug 8 Sacred Democracy-Rites of Nature
- Aug 8 Benin: Local Knowledge And Adaptation To Climate Change In Ouémé Valley, Benin
- Aug 8 Bolivia: Building Resilience To Climate Change Through Indigenous Knowledge – The Case Of Bolivia
- Aug 8 Local Food System Ordinance of Lane County, Oregon
- Jul 8 Sacred Democracy-The Beatitudes of Fairness
- Jul 8 Editor’s Introduction: July 2013
- Jul 8 Spokane Continues to Fight for the Right to Vote
- Jul 8 Foster Youth Bill of Rights, New Narratives
- Jul 8 Santa Monica Passes West Coast’s First Rights of Nature Ordinance
- Jul 8 Speaking With a ‘Fractivist’: Data Acquisition to Federal Exemptions
- Jul 8 Envision Spokane Statement to Legal Action to Block the Community Bill of Rights from the Ballot
- Jul 8 Why does the Spokane City Council continue to ignore and distort the substance of the Spokane Community Bill of Rights?
- Jul 8 History of Efforts to Keep the Spokane Community Bill of Rights Initiative off the Ballot
- Jul 8 Water Quality, Who Should Decide?
- Jul 8 East Boulder County United Launches Campaign for the Lafayette Community Rights Act to Prohibit New Oil and Gas Extraction
- Jul 8 Selections from the Public News Service-July 2013 (Audio)
- Jul 8 How the Declaration of Independence got Hijacked
- Jul 8 Benton County Community Group Files Petition for the Right to a Local, Sustainable Food System
- Jul 8 Rivers and Natural Ecosystems as Rights Bearing Subjects
- Jun 17 Quote
- Jun 10 A Bright Future: Creative, Passionate Students at Class Academy in Portland Participate in Read the Dirt Environmental Writing Contest
- Jun 8 Editor’s Introduction: June 2013
- Jun 8 Housing Justice: Fighting for Rights
- Jun 8 (Audio): Read the Dirt’s Coverage of the 2013 Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
- Jun 8 A Conversation about School Lunches, a Student and a Farmer
- Jun 8 A Community Rights Ordinance For South Puget Sound
- Jun 8 County Government Writes History, Hydrocarbon Ban is First of its Kind
- Jun 8 Food Bills of Rights and Monsanto-Speech
- Jun 8 Caring for Home through Nature’s Rights
- Jun 8 From Field to Table: Rights for Workers in the Food Supply Chain
- Jun 8 Will Ohio Be Fracking’s Radioactive Dumping Ground?
- Jun 8 Sacred Democracy-Living Democracy as Spiritual Practice (Or Vice Versa)
- Jun 6 GM Wheat Discovered in Oregon, Benton County Continues Work on Food Bill of Rights
- May 30 Quote
- May 8 Editor’s Introduction: May 2013
- May 8 Does Food Sovereignty Exist in the United States? Food and the Community Rights Movement
- May 8 Washington Community Action Network Talks Rights
- May 8 Sacred Democracy-The Moral Blueprint
- May 8 Transforming Faith
- May 7 First County in U.S. Bans Fracking and all Hydrocarbon Extraction – Mora County, NM
- May 7 Self-Replication at Stake in Monsanto Patented Seed Case
- May 7 Guatemala: Mayan K’iché Environmental Sustainability As A Way Of Life
- May 7 Small Farms Fight Back: Food And Community Self-Governance
- May 7 State College Borough Gov Denies Pipeline Permit: Fight Isn’t Over
- May 7 Muzzling Scientists is an Assault on Democracy
- Apr 8 Editor’s Introduction: April 2013
- Apr 8 An Addition to the Climate Movement-Civil Disobedience Toolkit
- Apr 7 Under the Radar: How a Multinational Corporation Quietly Bought a County-Wide Election
- Apr 2 Day One of the Occupation of Detroit
- Apr 2 Thornton, New Hampshire Rejects Community Bill of Rights To Ban Land Acquisition for Unsustainable Energy Systems
- Apr 2 Grafton, New Hampshire Adopts Community Bill of Rights That Bans Land Acquisition for Unsustainable Energy Systems
- Apr 2 Highland Township Adopts Community Bill of Rights That Bans Toxic Injection Wells
- Apr 2 PSU Pipeline Violates Community Bill of Rights
- Apr 1 Big or Small: Who Will Grow Washington’s Cannabis Crop?
- Mar 29 Quote
- Mar 29 Quote
- Mar 29 Read the Dirt: Changes on the Way
- Mar 27 Quote
- Mar 27 Quote
- Mar 27 Quote
- Mar 25 Crude Oil Trains Proposed for Grays Harbor, WA: Citizens Challenge Permitting Process
- Mar 18 Middle School Elevates its Rights above Corporations’
- Mar 12 What a Difference a Degree Makes
- Mar 2 The Story of Broadview Heights, Ohio
- Feb 25 Park Rangers to the Rescue
- Feb 17 Democracy Denied in Small Town, USA
- Feb 11 Washington’s Renewables: An Introduction
- Feb 4 The View from Plymouth, NH
- Jan 27 Benton County’s Fight to Protect Our Seed Heritage: A Food Bill of Rights
- Jan 22 Where in the World is Read the Dirt?
- Jan 16 Fighting for the Right to a Sustainable Food System: Benton County, Oregon
- Jan 14 The Balancing Act: Exploring Water in the Skagit Basin
- Jan 7 Notice: Official Communication
- Jan 6 Rivers and Natural Ecosystems as Rights Bearing Subjects
- Dec 31 Case Study: The Community Right to Sustainable Energy
- Dec 24 Barnstead, NH: Establishing the Community Right to Water and Self-Governance
- Dec 19 New Section: Community Rights
- Dec 12 Species Banks
- Dec 4 Rapid Evolution and Adaptation to Climate Change: Salmon
- Nov 23 Our Slaves
- Nov 17 NW Coal Ports: Voice your concerns, voice them loud!
- Nov 13 Meditations on our Future
- Nov 4 Book: Ecoliterate: How Educators Are Cultivating Emotional, Social, and Ecological Intelligence
- Oct 29 Historical Climate Trends in WA and Future Change
- Oct 21 On Kids and Food
- Oct 14 Equity, Environmental Justice, and Industrial Pollution in Portland
- Oct 8 Cities advising Counties?
- Sep 30 Empowered Latino Farmers (Spanish & English Translations Included)
- Sep 23 Changing ‘Fundemental Law’, a Case Study: Bellingham
- Sep 16 Whatcom Farm-to-School: Tackling Food System Challenges One Lunch at a Time
- Sep 12 Talking with Washington State Legislators-Stanford
- Sep 4 Orca Tribes of the Salish Sea and Beyond
- Aug 26 Talking with Washington State Legislators-Pollet
- Aug 21 Help! I’m being Climate Changed!
- Aug 10 Sludge, Whose Jurisdiction? (Part 2)
- Aug 5 It’s About More Than Business
- Jul 30 Sludge, Whose Jurisdiction? (Part 1)
- Jul 19 A Case to Protect Public Land
- Jul 14 Questionnaire for the authors of: THE GOLDILOCKS PLANET The 4 Billion Year Story of Earth’s Climate-Oxford University Press
- Jul 9 Rethinking the Peasant
- Jun 30 Water in the West: Diverse Tools for Conserving our Rivers and Communities
- Jun 26 The United States Conference of Mayors Resolves that Corporations are not Natural Persons etc.
- Jun 25 The Beginning of Regional Food Governance?
- Jun 17 Can City Planning Make Us Cooler, Healthier and Friendlier?
- Jun 11 The Results-2012
- Jun 11 The Secret Life of Plastic
- Jun 3 Liquefied Natural Gas Exports? (Part 2)
- May 29 Urban and Suburban Agriculture Empowers Environmental Stewards
- May 20 Managing Many Waters the Walla Walla Way
- May 15 A Letter from the Editors
- May 13 Northwest Soil Science: Nitrogen Mineralization
- May 6 Why Coal?
- Apr 30 Information and Documents concerning Oregon LNG
- Apr 29 The Tongass: The National Salmon Forest
- Apr 22 Foreign Interests, Local Uranium
- Apr 13 Liquefied Natural Gas Exports? (Part 1)
- Apr 6 Oregon is a Desert State
- Mar 29 The Right to Self-Govern
- Mar 25 Making Clean Local Energy Accessible Now (Part 1)
- Mar 19 The Clean Water Act – A Story of Activism and Change
- Mar 16 Quote
- Mar 9 1st Annual Read the Dirt Writing Competition!
- Mar 8 Our Right To Know
- Mar 2 Privatizing a Basic Human Right: Water
- Feb 24 Oil Sands Pipelines, here?
- Feb 23 PRESS: Genetically Engineered Animals?
- Feb 23 PRESS: The 9th Annual Skagit Human Rights Festival March 2012
- Feb 17 A complicated situation: Lake Roosevelt and the Grand Coulee Dam
- Feb 15 Attention Readers of the Dirt!
- Feb 10 Bottle the Skagit River?
- Feb 7 Quote
- Feb 3 WA Conservation Districts: An Introduction
- Jan 27 Bellingham Rights-Based Ordinance Proposed to Stop Coal Trains
- Jan 26 PRESS: Occupy Seattle Joins in Solidarity with United Farm Workers
- Jan 20 Planning For A Future: Protecting The Ground
- Jan 20 Planning For a Future (Original)
- Jan 18 PROTECT ONLINE FREEDOM—READ THE DIRT DEPENDS ON IT!
- Jan 12 Recirculating Farms
- Jan 8 PRESS: Associated Students of Western Washington University Adopt Resolution Opposing Cherry Point Coal Terminal
- Jan 6 Oysters and Ocean Acidification
- Dec 30 Columbia Basin Water Development
- Dec 23 Talking About Our Nuclear Hazard
- Dec 14 Forest Protection-The Olympic Peninsula
- Nov 30 Keeping Working Forests on the Landscape
- Nov 22 Quote
- Nov 20 One Step Back for Clean Water in the Boise River
- Nov 13 If it Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It: Portland’s Water System
- Nov 2 It’s a Wild Life – Can You Spare Some Passion?
- Oct 28 Why make Mt. St. Helens a National Park?
- Oct 20 The Story behind the Book, A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest
- Oct 15 Protecting Our Region From Hanford’s Spreading of Contamination and From Being Used (Again) as a National Radioactive Waste Dump
- Oct 6 Leave It to the Beaver!
- Sep 28 West Hylebos Wetlands: A Place Worth Preserving
- Sep 21 Liquified Natural Gas on the Columbia River Reignites Fossil Fuel Battle
- Sep 15 New Gold Rush Threatens the West
- Sep 8 A New Trend in Dam Removal?
- Aug 31 There’s a New Bug in Town
- Aug 8 12,000 Rain Gardens
- Jul 11 Investing in Seed Banks
- Jun 23 McKibben Comments on Expansion of Coal Exports at Cherry Point (Whatcom County)
- Jun 2 America’s Antiquated Mining Policy
- Apr 3 WASTED POWER
- Mar 15 Drinking Water in Bellingham and much of Whatcom County
- Feb 14
- Jan 25 No Fisherman Deserves a Toxic River
- Jan 7 A History Lesson Concerning Fauna
- Dec 20 Meet Some Environmental Consultants
- Dec 15 Conserving Working Lands, Native Species, and Fertile Soil
- Dec 5 Using Dirt to Teach
- Nov 26 Thurston County Hydrologic Cycle
- Nov 14 River Watch-Thomas Creek
- Nov 11 Water Wealth
- Nov 8 Columbia Gorge Air Quality
- Nov 1 Protecting Dirt, Among Other Things
- Oct 25 Welcome To Read The Dirt!
- Oct 25 Coming Soon
- Oct 24 Salmon, Dams and the Snake River
- Oct 21 Native Plant Spotlight: Oregon Grape
- Oct 21 The Return of Washington’s Wolf Packs?
- Oct 21 The We, The I and The Dirt
- Oct 21 Turning Pollution Into Energy
- Oct 21 Orange and Green
- Oct 21 A Fauna the WSDA isn’t Too Fond Of
- Oct 21 How is YOUR Air Quality?
- Oct 21 Washington’s Roadless Forests
- Oct 21 River Watch-The Teanaway
- Oct 21 Why Conserve Water in the Pacific Northwest?
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- Oct 21 Election 2010: Talk with a WA State Supreme Court Candidate (Chief Justice Madsen)
- Oct 20 Our Dirty Web Designer (Video)
- Oct 14 Quote_Robin D.G. Kelley
