Friday, November 1, 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 2, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Decorah Congregational UCC 209 West Broadway, Decorah, Iowa |
Have you ever wondered why large corporations can overrule what people and communities want for themselves and their future?
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Have you ever wondered why you lose your civil rights when you walk across your employer’s doorstep?
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Or how it is that your once beautiful land, clean well water, or pristine fishing area can be ”permitted” to be destroyed by industrial pollution whether you like it or not?
Democracy School explores how it came to be that large corporations have more rights than American people, towns, cities and counties. It examines the way our constitution was reinterpreted and laws enacted to shift power from real people to “corporate persons.”
Democracy School explores why big government now enforces the rights of big corporations to extract resources (natural and financial) of people and communities across the country. Democracy School also shows you how some communities – beginning with tiny, conservative farming communities in Pennsylvania – are fighting back to protect their lives and livelihoods.
Democracy School explores why big government now enforces the rights of big corporations to extract resources (natural and financial) of people and communities across the country. Democracy School also shows you how some communities – beginning with tiny, conservative farming communities in Pennsylvania – are fighting back to protect their lives and livelihoods.
Sliding scale $75 - $250 includes curriculum & lunch. Pay as you are able.
Interested in donating to our scholarship fund or requesting a scholarship? Email [email protected].
25 participants maximum
For more information call 563-382-8013 or email [email protected]
Interested in donating to our scholarship fund or requesting a scholarship? Email [email protected].
25 participants maximum
For more information call 563-382-8013 or email [email protected]
Here is what other participants have to say:
…taught me a new, empowering way to protect the environment, reclaiming local control… Mary Ann Kae
…will never read a newspaper through my old lens again; enlightened on how process works… Maria Ross
…awed by small, conservative communities that stood up to government-sanctioned corporate abuse ... Judy Hopkinson
…not realize how little legal power communities have when corporations want their way … Cynthia Sheldon
…first-hand knowledge of ways to bring power back to the people real examples of success… Marian Beddill
…taught me a new, empowering way to protect the environment, reclaiming local control… Mary Ann Kae
…will never read a newspaper through my old lens again; enlightened on how process works… Maria Ross
…awed by small, conservative communities that stood up to government-sanctioned corporate abuse ... Judy Hopkinson
…not realize how little legal power communities have when corporations want their way … Cynthia Sheldon
…first-hand knowledge of ways to bring power back to the people real examples of success… Marian Beddill
Democracy School is presented by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, CELDF.org and the Community Rights Alliance of Winneshiek County.