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How To Assert Community Rights

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Plenty of people walk around thinking that corporations and people with lots of money call all the shots economically and politically. 

Some, like believers in "community rights," work to counteract the power of corporations and their owners. 

Community Rights Lane County is one such group, urging people within Lane County to exercise their rights to determine local policies. 

Attorney and activist Ann Kneeland drops in to talk about the concept and its execution. 

LINK: The proposed ballot measure to change Oregon's Constitution to adopt community rights was mentioned on the air... here's the text.
 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.