Draft Your Local Ordinance
You CAN take direct steps for national change. And one of the most concrete ways to do this is to take action at the local level and pass a local ordinance. Local momentum creates national momentum! See sample declarations, resolutions, and ordinances as an aid to drafting your own.Sample RESOLUTIONS to abolish corporate persons
- Resolution on Corporate Personhood passed by Point Arena City Council on 4/25/00 by Redwood Coast Alliance for Democracy. Check out what was proposed and what passed.
- Tips on Passing a Resolution that Abolishes Corporate Personhood by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. (pdf format; requires adobe acrobat reader.)
- Resolution before the American Academy of Family Physicians (pdf format; requires adobe acrobat reader.)
Sample CITY ORDINANCE to abolish corporate persons
- Enforces the Right to Local Self-Governance and Eliminates Corporate Privileges by Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund Drafts of local ordinances.
- Blaine Township Corporate Rights Ordinance
Sample COUNTY ORDINANCE to abolish corporate persons
- Humboldt County Ordinance To Protect Our Right To Fair Elections & Local Democracy by Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County
Sample CITIZEN'S DECLARATION of Independence
- Declaration on Ending Corporate Personhood by the Redwood Coast Alliance for Democracy
- Community Bill of Rights by EnvisionSpokane.org
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