We the People have to stop acting so obedient, when one unjust law after another is shoved in our faces to silence our opposition. And there actually is much that we can do, once we're prepared to push back on these unjust and illegitimate laws. For example, within the framework of the Community Rights movement, Portland voters could pass a ballot initiative that bans any further cell towers in our city. Or we could pass a ballot initiative that bans any significant corporate development if the majority of the impacted neighborhood votes no. Wouldn't that be so much more sensible than one neighborhood after another battling one individual cell tower application after another, within a political process where the corporation has the constitutionally-protected "right" to place the tower anywhere it wants to, while the local residents have to sit obediently, while their local elected officials watch their backs and try to avoid a corporate lawsuit? Is this really the best we can do? Of course not!
I will be sharing this vision at our upcoming neighborhood meetings, proposing a more effective
strategy to stop this and other new cell towers. And if anyone out there has a cell tower controversy in another neighborhood, let's get our neighborhoods networked together so that we can stop these dangerous towers once and for all.
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