SCHOOL

With Brad Read and Kai Huschke, NW Community Organizers

  • Immerse yourself in the origins of our system of law and governance
  • Learn how the corporate state came to be and how it controls our activism
  • Discover the keys to affect lasting change

 

DATE: October 27th and 28th, 2017

Time: Friday 6:00-9:00 PM

Saturday 9:00AM-5:00PM

 

LOCATION: Subway meeting room in Gig Harbor NORTH

off the Burnham Dr. exit (Hwy 16) near Albertson’s on Borgen Blvd.

11430 51st Ave. NW #100 Gig Harbor, WA 98332

 

Democracy School explores the limits of conventional regulatory organizing

and offers a new model that helps citizens confront corporations’ usurpation of the rights of communities, people, and the RIGHTS OF NATURE.

 

REGISTRATION FEE: is $67.00 postmarked by October 4 (It includes tuition and a 300-page notebook jam packed with information). There are a limited number of scholarships available. Space is limited. Register early!

CELDF To Hold Unique Environmental Workshop in Gig Harbor

CONTACT: KRISS KEVORKIAN 310-508-5544 drkkevorkian@gmail.com

Gig Harbor, WA September 13, 2017 – Gig Harbor has been chosen as the site for a unique environmental workshop put on by the internationally known Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund on October 27 and 28, 2017. Focusing on the Rights of Nature, “CELDF’s International Center for the Rights of Nature is spearheading the advancement of the Rights of Nature around the world” said Kai Huschke, who will lead the classes. “We are pleased to be presenting this information to those who are trying to work to save the Salish Sea.”

Gig Harborite, Dr Kriss Kevorkian, who coined the term, “environmental grief,” and who works extensively in the environmental arena, said, “This offers a much needed paradigm shift in how we view the natural world and the important recognition that we humans are part of that natural world. Many nations including Ecuador, Nepal, Bolivia and the United Kingdom have recognized the need to protect nature.”

CELDF’S work has been recognized around the world for this approach to Environmental rights. Nearly 200 communities have adopted CELDF-drafted Community Bills of Rights laws that transitioned them from merely regulating corporate harms to stopping those harms by asserting local, democratic control directly over corporations. “These are first-in-the-nation, groundbreaking laws that are strengthening true democracy,” said Huschke. “It was Rachel Carson who said, “A healthy environment is one of the basic human rights.”

The workshop, Democracy School, will take place from 6-9PM on Friday, October 27 and re-convene at 9 AM on Saturday, October 28th until 5PM. The two-day event costs $67.00, and reservations for the class can be made at mychestnuttree@gmail.com. There are a limited number of scholarships available. Registration deadline is October 4, 2017.

For further information: https://celdf.org/2017/08/democracy-school-gig-harbor-wa/