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COCORN presents: Democracy School in Lakewood
April 10, 2015 - April 11, 2015
$125Democracy School: A Statewide Activist Strategy Session
With: Ben Price and Chad Nicholson, Organizers and Trainers, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)
Date: April 10 – 11, 2015
Time: 6 pm – 9 pm, Friday evening, and 8:45 am – 5 pm Saturday
Space is limited: register now!
Democracy School:
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Teaches citizens and activists how to reframe exhausting and discouraging single-issue work (increasing the minimum wage; opposing toxic dumps, quarries, fracking, mines, factory farms, etc.) in a way that confronts corporate control on a powerful single front: peoples’ constitutional rights.
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Explores the limits of conventional “regulatory” organizing and offers a new organizing model that helps citizens confront corporations’ usurpation of the rights of communities, people, and the earth.
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Covers the history of people’s movements, the rise of corporate power, and the dramatic increase in organizing in Colorado and other states by communities confronting fracking, GMOs, workers’ rights, minimum wage, agribusiness, sewage sludge, mining, and other corporate projects and issues.
Built around carefully designed readings, clear presentations, and group discussions, the school shows how the law enables corporate managers to dictate their values and impose their projects on unwilling communities, how the judicial system gave corporations the rights of persons, and how peoples’ movements have–and can–win this struggle.
Learn more about Democracy School: www.celdf.org/Democracy-School
Tuition: $125 if postmarked by Thursday April 2, 2015. $150 thereafter. Limited number of scholarships available.
Food: brownbag your lunch on Saturday. Beverages and snacks will be provided.
To register: call Dianne Thiel 303 692-0684 or email aglee668@indra.com before sending a check to get her address. Checks should be made out to: Colorado Community Rights Network. Online payment option available by the end of March.
Parking info: http://www.lakewood.org/CivicCenterRefresh
