We can devise smart strategies to protect local communities from real estate developers’ abuses, etc.

July 3, 2022 GlenAnderson Economics, Labor, Capitalism, Trade, Poverty (Also see Taxes), Environment, Examples of Parallax Views, Governmental Abuses, Local Government, Olympia area, Organizing & Activism (Also see Nonviolence, Outreach), Our Current Political Crisis (in addition to Trump and Trumpism), Outreach, Framing/Reframing (Also see Organizing & Activism) 0

Local communities in many parts of our nation — including the Olympia WA area where I live — are being hurt in several ways by real estate developers and other entities that cut down trees and build on lands that should not be built upon (including areas with toxic waste buried underground, areas on dangerous slopes, and so forth).  Those wealthy financial entities have corrupted local governments to let them do that.  In some cases they even are allowed to avoid having to pay taxes that they should be paying — and are subsidized in various ways by local governments and existing taxpayers.  The real estate developers’ costs are “externalized” onto existing taxpayers.

We need to organize against those abuses.  We need economic “growth” to pay for itself.  Local people can organize if we clearly understand the problems — and why those problems have arisen — and why those problems are allowed to persist.  The model in the link below can help us understand these — AND DEVISE SOLUTIONS that we could organize.

SEE THIS:

Pillars — COST OF GROWTH

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Since the late 1960s Glen Anderson has devoted his life to working as a volunteer for peace, nonviolence, social justice, and progressive political issues. He has worked through many existing organizations and started several. Over the years he has worked especially for such wide-ranging goals as making peace with Vietnam, eliminating nuclear weapons, converting from a military economy to a peacetime economy, abolishing the death penalty, promoting nonviolence at all levels throughout society, and helping people organize and strategize for grassroots movements to solve many kinds of problems. He writes, speaks, and conducts training workshops on a wide variety of topics. Since 1987 he has produced and hosted a one-hour cable TV interview program on many kinds of issues. Since 2017 he has blogged at https://parallaxperspectives.org He lives in Lacey near Olympia WA. You can reach him at (360) 491-9093 glen@parallaxperspectives.org