Synopsis
For those of us who have wondered what it must have been like to read political pamphlets in the age of Thomas Paine and the Boston Tea Party, our time has come. This collection of Community Rights papers by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund arrives not a moment too soon. For in the contemporary course of human events, American communities appear powerless to stop corporations from imposing destructive projects fracking, fossil fuel pipelines, toxic waste dumps, or factory farms. The consent of the governed is most imperiled where it is most vital – close to home.
