On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 11:08 PM, agnes@mcn.org> wrote:
EPA Confirms Activists' Longtime Claims: Neonicotinoid Pesticide Threatens Honeybees
Els asks, "How does this square with the CA Department of Pesticide Regulation that regulates all economic poisons? Can a charter county override that?"
My response:
That's a good question. All the thousands of pounds of Roundup that is used on our school campuses has been approved by Chuck Morse, the County Ag Commissioner.
That's what Community Rights is all about. They say that we the People have the right to govern ourselves and protect our health and welfare. Therefore, they advocate making local ordinances that contradict bad state or federal laws, and give the example of the women's suffrage movement.
Personally, I think that even if the people vote in favor of something like prohibiting corporate constitutional rights within the county, a charter with such wording may not get ratified by the California Secretary of State.
So if we want specific things like that in the charter, we may need to wait until we tack on an amendment in the future. That can be a new project for Move to Amend in our county. I'd vote for it.
Until then, we can clearly declare our right to protect our health, safety and environment within the charter. That's what I call a Community Rights Charter. I'd rather see global rights in the charter than specific items like neonicotinoid pesticides. The chemical industries will just invent another pesticide even worse. But a statement of our right to be free of chemical trespass, the right to health, safety, environmental protection, and the right to protect our agricultural lands and clean food supply, etc, will better serve us.
EPA Confirms Activists' Longtime Claims: Neonicotinoid Pesticide Threatens Honeybees
Els asks, "How does this square with the CA Department of Pesticide Regulation that regulates all economic poisons? Can a charter county override that?"
My response:
That's a good question. All the thousands of pounds of Roundup that is used on our school campuses has been approved by Chuck Morse, the County Ag Commissioner.
That's what Community Rights is all about. They say that we the People have the right to govern ourselves and protect our health and welfare. Therefore, they advocate making local ordinances that contradict bad state or federal laws, and give the example of the women's suffrage movement.
Personally, I think that even if the people vote in favor of something like prohibiting corporate constitutional rights within the county, a charter with such wording may not get ratified by the California Secretary of State.
So if we want specific things like that in the charter, we may need to wait until we tack on an amendment in the future. That can be a new project for Move to Amend in our county. I'd vote for it.
Until then, we can clearly declare our right to protect our health, safety and environment within the charter. That's what I call a Community Rights Charter. I'd rather see global rights in the charter than specific items like neonicotinoid pesticides. The chemical industries will just invent another pesticide even worse. But a statement of our right to be free of chemical trespass, the right to health, safety, environmental protection, and the right to protect our agricultural lands and clean food supply, etc, will better serve us.
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