Culver City ‘Democracy School’ Seminar

Concerned about our environment, public health and safety, and our rights?

Then attend Democracy School on Sun. April 21 from 4-7 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial Complex Garden Room (4117 Overland Ave, Culver City, CA 90230). The event is free but an RSVP is required to attend.

With special guests Ben Price from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDEF) and Shannon Biggs from Global Exchange explore how conventional regulatory structure limits our ability to make meaningful change. Understand how excess corporate power impinges on our rights.

Learn how communities across the U.S. are beginning to assert local control to protect the rights of their residents, their communities, and nature. Learn how to re-frame exhausting and often discouraging single-issue activism on a powerful single front: people’s constitutional rights.

The event includes an intense, comprehensive history of the judicial bestowal of constitutional rights of persons on corporations.

Learn the secret of how People’s Movements have cut to the essence and won their struggles to be found in the constitution: Anti-Federalists, Abolitionists, Suffragists, Populists and the Labor Movement.

“This Democracy School will help show how regulations and state agencies, specifically in regards to the environment and public heath/safety, favors corporate interests over those of the local community, and it will offer a model of how we can assert our rights. This school is particularly relevant to Culver City as we are a neighbor to the largest contiguous urban oil field in the nation.“ said Stephen Murray, director of Baldwin Hills Oil Watch.

This three-hour Democracy School is based on the full day Daniel Pennock Democracy Schools.

Democracy School is made possible locally through the combined Global Exchange/CELDF  “California Communities Rising Against Fracking Tour.” Sponsored by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), Global Exchange, Citizens Coalition for a Safe Community (CCSC), Transition Culver City, Baldwin Hills Oil Watch and MakeCCSafe.

"If you take no other training this year, do the Democracy School. It is a superlative unfolding revelation of how corporations have hijacked democracy. It meticulously deconstructs the historical arc that brought us to this precipice. But most importantly, it then departs into the highly pragmatic and inspiring work now underway that is slowly turning the tide. " - Kenny Ausubel ‘05, Founder and Co- Executive Director, Bioneers

Register at: info@makeccsafe.com

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