Grossman says we need to remember that we are born with inalienable rights that precede the formation of governments. Many of these rights have been appropriated by corporations. Abolitionist show us how to get them back.
Richard Grossman refers back to the revolutionary war and the Declaration of Independence and argues that this country needs to remember that we are born with inalienable rights that precede the formation of governments.
Grossman refers to the radical branch of the Abolitionists who, in the mid 1800ds, after much debate, found that they could not envision the restoration of rights under the then existing US constitution. Even though attacked by their reformist associates, they eventually succeeded in rewriting the US constitution via the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments.
The title of his talk: When injustice is legal, points to the underlying problem with the current system. Local resistance needs to understand that it operates within a system that makes injustice legal and needs to go to work to ultimately rewrite parts of the constitution.
Richard Grossman belongs to an organization, CELDF, the Community Legal Defense Fund. CELDF teaches citizens and activists how to reframe exhausting and often discouraging single issue work and move to confront corporate control on a powerful single front: by reclaiming people's constitutional rights.
