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SPOKANE: The Spokane City Council voted to place a Community Bill of Rights on the November ballot. Our local partner group – Envision Spokane – successfully qualified the citizens’ initiative to the ballot, collecting over 4,500 signatures of voters, and it was placed on the ballot by a vote of the council on Tuesday night. The ballot measure would amend the city’s Home Rule Charter. The Spokane Bill of Rights establishes the right of neighborhoods within the city to make decisions about major development projects; establishes rights of the Spokane River and Aquifer to exist and flourish, rights that can be enforced and defended by people and the city itself; secures constitutional rights of workers in the workplace and secures collective bargaining rights for workers in unionized workplaces; and eliminates the authority of corporations to wield their corporate constitutional “rights” to undermine any of the rights in the Bill of Rights.For more, click here. And for the latest coverage from the Spokesman-Review, click here.
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