Resiliency and Development
Discussing ecosystem resiliency in connection with urban development
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Created: Apr 27, 2009
Updated: Sep 07, 2009
Membership: Open
Semi-Private
Daniel Pennock Democracy School - California
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Daniel Pennock Democracy School
-Kenny Ausubel '05,
Founder and Co-Executive Director, Bioneers
"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
What is Democracy School?
Created by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund [CELDF] and Richard Grossman, co-founder of the Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy (POCLAD), Democracy Schools were launched with five weekend sessions at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania in 2003. Since then, the number of schools has grown rapidly. In 2007, there are well over a dozen locations across the country offering Democracy Schools, including the San Francisco schools hosted by Global Exchange!
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 dramatic recent organizing in Pennsylvania by communities confronting agribusiness, sewage sludge, and quarry corporations. Included with enrollment in the Democracy School is a 300 plus-page notebook of background reading material, and a copy of Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy. For a historical review of the Pennsylvania work through the end of 2003, see a feature article that appeared in Orion Magazine or visit www.CELDF.org.
The Schools are built around carefully designed readings, clear presentations and group discussions
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