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Defending Water for Life

Ending Corporate Rule

Justice Rising

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Defending Water for Life

To learn about our "Defending Water for Life" campaigns, visit our campaign page and these state campaign websites: Defending Water in Maine Defending Water in California Defending Water in Washington Defending Water in Oregon Anacortes WA: Tethys investors drop plans for largest water bottling plant in U.S. Alliance and Barnstead NH make history Ordinance protects water, rights of nature and local democracy; bars corporate personhood

Stop the Corridor! Learn more about how communities are protecting themselves against the East/West Corridor here.

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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. They are 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! Extra copies available! Call us at 781-894-1179 or email afd@thealliancefordemocracy.org. Back issues of Justice Rising are online here.

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Media Democracy •  "Alliance for Democracy--Populist Dialogues" Hosted by AfD co-chair David Delk, and featuring interviews with people involved in the fight to oppose corporate rule. Want to show it on community cable? Here's how! • Listen to Alliance for Democracy radio: "Corporations and Democracy"

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Corporate Globalization and Positive Alternatives •  Designing an alternative to profit-driven trade policy: "A Common Agreement on Investment and Society" • Asserting community rights over corporate rights •  New England Roundtable on Popular Governance •  Living a new vision: Hundredfold Farm

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Tapestry of the Commons •  Listen to the Tapestry of the Commons radio program •  Read Elinor Ostrom's thoughts on managing the commons on the AfD blog •  For a teacher workshop, or school or community group presentation contact the AfD office

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AfD National Office PO Box 540115 Waltham, MA 02454-0115 781-894-1179 AfD@thealliancefordemocracy.org

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