Politics & Government
(VIDEO): Green Acton to Host One Day Democracy School
One Day Workshop on organizing for local rights over corporate power.
Members of Green Acton are hosting a one-day "Democracy School" on Saturday February 25 taught by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.
The Democracy School explores the limits of conventional regulatory organizing and offers a new organizing model that helps local citizen activists confront the usurpation by corporations of the rights of communities, people, and the earth.
Lectures cover the history of people's movements and corporate power, and the dramatic recent organizing in Pennsylvania by communities confronting agribusiness, sewage sludge, and quarry corporations.
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The Democracy School is part of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. CELDF helps towns write ordinances that protect more rigorously than current state and federal regulations.
There is a limit of no more than 30 students in the workshop. There is a sliding scale from $30 to $75. For more information or to register and get directions to the class, please contact Terra Friedrichs at 978 808 7173 (cell) or 978 266 2778 (messages).