Chomsky on the Commons | David Bollier - 0 views
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Noam Chomsky recent gave a meaty talk, “Destroying the Commons: On Shredding the Magna Carta” that shows how fragile the rights of commoners truly are. Achieved after enormous civil strife, the Magna Carta supposedly guaranteed commoners certain civic and procedural rights.
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Charter of the Forest later incorporated into the Magna Carta, expressly guarantees commoners stipulated rights to access and use forests, land, water, game and other natural resources
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Both documents are now being shredded today with barely a peep of acknowledgment that centuries-old principles of human rights are being swept aside.
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