Community Rights Take Action
Attend a Democracy School this spring!
Join us to learn about how you can subordinate corporations to local democratic decision-making and assert your community rights at Democracy School!
The two-day training teaches citizens and activists how to reframe exhausting and often discouraging single issue work (such as opposing toxic dumps, water withdrawal, local food sovereignty, etc.) in a way that allows us to confront corporate control on a powerful single front: people’s constitutional rights.
Democracy School explores the limits of conventional regulatory organizing and offers a new organizing model that helps citizens 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 recent organizing by over 120 communities across the US confronting unwanted corporate assaults. Included with enrollment in the Democracy School is a 300 plus-page notebook of background reading material.
Upcoming Schools
- Mendocino County: May21st-22nd, 2012. Location TBA. Contact Jamie Lee for more information: jwlpeace@gmail.com
- Los Angeles / Santa Monica: April 20th-21st. Location TBA. Contact Cris Gutierrez for more information: crispeace@earthlink.net
- Grass Valley, CA: May 18th-20th, 2012. Location TBA. To learn more or register, contact Holly Beardsley: hbconsulting@sbcglobal.net
Other ways you can take action
- Attend a Rights of Nature seminar hosted by the Women's Earth and Climate Caucus
- Partner with us to start a rights-based campaign in your community -- HOW? Contact Community Rights Program Director, Shannon Biggs.
- Join the Community Rights list-serv!
- Follow Community Rights on twitter.
- Bring Shannon Biggs to speak to your community group on Community and Nature’s Rights.
Get a copy of the revolutionary new book, The Rights of Nature: The Case for a Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth. Copies of the book are available for $15 (including US shipping) To purchase, please contact Kylie (kylie@globalexchange.org)