[Editor’s Note: Mr. Murray is Director of Baldwin Hills Oil Watch.]
[img]1323|left|Mr. Murray||no_popup[/img]Concerned about our environment, public health and safety, and our rights?
Attend Democracy School on Sunday afternoon between 4 and 7 in the Garden Room at the Vets Auditorium, 4117 Overland Ave.
The event is free but an RSVP is required.
With special guests Ben Price from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund and Shannon Biggs from Global Exchange, participants will 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, often discouraging, single-issue activism on a powerful single front: People’s Constitutional rights.
- The program 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, favor corporate interests over those of the local community.
The Democracy School will offer a model of how we can assert our rights.
This school is particularly relevant to Culver City becausewe are a neighbor to the largest contiguous urban oil field in the nation.
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/Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund “California Communities Rising Against Fracking Tour.”
Sponsors of the day are the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund Global Exchange, Citizens Coalition for a Safe Community, Transition Culver City, Baldwin Hills Oil Watch and MakeCCSafe.
“If you take no other training this year, do the Democracy School,” says Kenny Ausubel, founder-co-Executive Director of Bioneers.
“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 departs into the highly pragmatic and inspiring work now underway that is slowly turning the tide.”
This is a not-to-be-missed educational opportunity for all citizens.
Register at info@makeccsafe.com
More information at http://celdf.org/democracy-school
http://makeccsafe.com/events/democracy-school/
