This Week on Democracy Matters: Citizen Oversight of the Police - do we (shouldn't we?) have the right to oversight? - and Part I of our interview with author and activist Diane Wilson

This week on Democracy Matters - citizen oversight of the police - the role of ombudsman's and why true investigatory power into police matters remains so illusive.  And Part I of our interview with activist and author Diane Wilson - who wrote Diary of an Eco-Outlaw: An Unreasonable Woman Breaks the Law for Mother Earth - on the need for civil disobedience in our environmental activism.

Each week on Democracy Matters we bring you stories from the frontlines as communities bring rights-based organizing to their communities - asserting their local self-governing authority to make the critical decisions that affect their lives and their community.

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