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Property rights seem to many people an archaic notion, a relic of a time long gone when the status of an individual would be determined by the property he owned………read more.

Rules of Engagement for Defending Our Private Property Rights
Reprinted by Permission of the Property Rights Foundation of America
Carol W. LaGrasse, President, Property Rights Foundation of America
Speech from the Ninth Annual National Conference on Private Property Rights (2005)
 And now I would like to give you my rules of engagement.
First of all, fight to win. Set your goals. Speak your issue clearly to be heard by the government and by those who can follow you.... don’t back off. Go right to the heart of where you can hit them. And also speak clearly so that the people can follow you. They must know exactly where you are.  Apply your efforts with sophistication. Use your emotion but don’t ever be run by your emotions. Intensity frightens the opposition, the people who want to just dismiss you. They see the force behind your words.

“Are Property Rights Opposed to Environmental Protection?"
Reprinted by Permission of the Property Rights Foundation of America
Roger Pilon, Ph.D., J.D., Vice President for Legal Studies and Director, Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute, Washington, D.C  “The Supreme Court’s Protection of Private Property Rights: The Founders’ Dream, the Owner’s Nightmare” -Eleventh Annual National Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N. Y., October 13, 2007)

“Twenty-First Century Carpetbaggers and Privateers- The Booty is Your Property”
Reprinted by Permission of the Property Rights Foundation of America
By Marshall Sayegh, Community Leader, Gualala, California, Eleventh Annual National Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October 13, 2007)
Today, privateering is a way of mobilizing groups of people and resources to take private property rights. When faced with an illogical utility route that threatened their businesses, the Gualala Commercial Property Owners defended their private property rights by organizing and speaking out, again and again.

Open Space Article to the Independent Coast Observer regarding GCSD
Published by the Independent Coast Observer .  This article describes the issues with the Gualala Community Services District.

Grants Have Agendas
Reprinted by Permission of the Property Rights Foundation of America
By Carol W. LaGrasse  - Property Rights Foundation of America, Inc.
How can you be opposed to grants? This is a question that citizens often raise. Those who are wary of government trends foresee that many grants will erode freedom and local control. However, the process from the inception of the grant to the final result that diminishes fundamental individual protections in our constitutional representative government is insidious. As a result, the citizens cannot specifically detail how a particular grant took away a particular freedom or erased a specific aspect of local control over government. Yet, the opposition to grants remains, because citizens realize that they present one of the greatest threats to freedom, and, specifically, to private property rights.

STANCHING THE LOSS OF RIGHTS & FREEDOMS IN THE USA TODAY
Reprinted by Permission of Good Neighbor Law
A talk given at the Good Neighbor Forum on March 15, 2008 in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Jim Beers (Centreville, VI) a former USFWS employee whistle blower, discussed alleged endangered species and their negative impact on resource production.
Rights, freedoms, liberties and traditions are being surrendered, taken, and lost all around us. From parental rights to gun rights, from the right to "domestic Tranquility" to the property rights of landowners and animal owners: the rights of American citizens flow, like an undressed wound, from our society.
Whether we think of this loss of rights as causing, or resulting from the associated loss of freedoms, liberties and traditions in American society: the fact that they are intimately related cannot be disputed.