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Democracy School

The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund presents:

The Daniel Pennock
Democracy
School
www.celdf.org

Why Democratic self-government is impossible

when corporate directors wield Constitutional rights to deny people’s rights

Friday, December 1st thru

Sunday, December 3rd

Antioch University

Yellow Springs, Ohio

Are you tired of organizing to reduce the pollution or argue over zoning in your community? Want to say “NO!” to the invasions of corporate factory farms, sprawl, Wal Mart, genetically-engineered seeds, and corporate media? If the Ohio Constitution says “all political power is inherent in the people,” then why are We the People not governing? Come to the Democracy School and work with other Ohioans to uncover how corporate directors use the legal system to deny our rights to govern in our communities. More Details…

Democracy School was a mind-blowing experience. During the School, I was forced to come to grips with the understanding that I really knew very little about the true structure of law that controls our activism. Democracy School is a must for everyone who seeks to be liberated from our defensive, after-the-fact reactive organizing strategies. -Krishnaveni Gundu, ’05, Calhoun County (TX) Resource Watch

At Democracy School,

...we teach how the Corporate State came to exist, and how corporate directors wield power to prevent communities from governing themselves. We then examine how municipal governments in Pennsylvania and around the country are transforming their demands into local laws, which attack the fundamental pillars of the Corporate State and set in motion rights-based organizing for self-governance.

Registration Deadline:

November 17th

To reserve a seat:

Make checks payable to “Project Democracy Ohio” and mail to:

Project Democracy Ohio

7221 Trillium Dr.

Lewis Center, OH 43035

Details:

Registration fee is $295 and includes the following:

• 350 page curriculum mailed two weeks prior to the School

• Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy, co-authored by

Richard Grossman (distributed at the School)

• Lunch included Saturday and Sunday

• Overnight accommodations available for additional cost

Schedule:

Plan to arrive by 6:30 Friday evening for check-in.

The School runs Friday from 7:00PM – 9:30PM;

Saturday, 9:00AM – 6:00PM; Sunday, 9:00AM – 3:00PM

Cancellation Policy: Tuition is non-refundable. However, if we cancel for any reason besides inclement weather, we will refund full tuition. If we cancel due to inclement weather, we will refund full tuition less $35 for the cost of the materials.

We’d love to hear from you!

For inquiries or to register, call or write us:

Kat Walter: 937-223-1577; kat@democracyohio.org

Eme Lybarger: 614-839-3692; eme@democracyohio.org

Friday, December 1st 7:00PM – 9:30PM

Introductions

How we got here: A brief history of the School and Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund’s Work

Discussion

•“What are our current patterns of activism?”

•“What is law?”

•“How is law used and for what purpose?”

Case Study: Corporate factory farms and citizen organizing

Saturday, December 2nd 9:00AM – 6:00PM

Of the few, by the few, and for the few

•England as slave and empire state

•The Articles of Confederation, the Constitution

•The anti-federalists

•The American slave state

People’s movements in the United States

•The Declaration of Independence

•The American Revolution

•The abolitionists and the fourteenth amendment

•Labor and the thirteenth amendment

•Women’s rights and the nineteenth amendment

•The populists

•The civil rights movement

From slave state to corporate state

•Early corporate chartering

•Dartmouth College: wrapping corporations in the Constitution

•Morphing into a corporate state

Courts

Legislatures

“The Progressive Era”

•Accumulated “rights” and powers corporate directors wield today

New organizing: The Pennsylvania Model

•Rethinking the nature of corporate and government assaults

•Challenging corporate claims to “rights”

•Asserting people’s right to govern by making local laws

Instructors:

Richard Grossman, Legal Historian & Activist

Director of Education, Training, and Devleopment for CELDF;

Co-Founder, Democracy School

Eme Lybarger

Community Organizer, CELDF;Co-Founder, Project Democracy Ohio

Kat Walter

Community Organizer, CELDF;Co-Founder, Project Democracy Ohio

Illustrations by Matt Wuerker, from Peter Kellman’s Building Unions. Reprinted by permission.

Sunday, December 3rd 9:00AM – 3:00PM

FROST – A rural Pennsylvania community organization takes on the Constitutional “rights” of a quarry corporation

Open discussion

•Rethinking community threats: Blocking local self-governance

•What are the issues in your communities?

•What have been the outcomes of organizing thus far?

•How do you envision applying this seminar to the challenges confronting your communities?

How do we make real the promises of democracy?