First in a series
[img]1323|right|Mr. Murray||no_popup[/img]The audience will be in for a rare scholarly treat this evening when the monthly meeting of the Culver City Democratic Club convenes at 7 o’clock in the Rotunda Room of the Vets Auditorium.
Billed as an introduction inside the world of serious anti-fracking, with an accent on Community Rights vs. Corporation Rights, a chapter in entrepreneur Stephen Murray’s Democracy School series, it is intended to be an intra-active program.
An energy consultant and a software engineer, Mr. Murray has made a decades-long study of rights, human and natural, corporate and communal.
In a flick, he will reel off names, dates and the rounded contexts of rights cases in the last 200 years, and link them to present-day debates.
Democracy and rights are two pillars of Mr. Murray’s professional life, developing a historical comprehension of how they have developed and are applicable today.
Specific to the Democratic Club, he said the still extremely murky nationwide battle over fracking and the nature of regulations controlling it can be reduced to corporation rights (the gas and oil industry) vs. community rights, “our rights to health and safety as private citizens.
Mr. Murray said that he ran for the City Council last year “because I wanted to demonstrate how democracy works in its purest form.”
He will not be looking for a sedentary crowd at the Democratic Club. He is hoping to match up with curious types, eager not only to learn but participate.
“One, I will be recruiting tonight,” Mr. Murray said this morning. “Two, I will be educating. I will be recruiting people to help this campaign, to get behind it.
“This is not really a campaign yet. We want people to help spread this idea of community rights.”
(To be continued)
