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Two decisions transferring power to corporations have captured the imagination and a great deal of nationwide resistance. The 2010 Supreme Court ruling allowing unlimited spending on political campaigns and the much older decision conferring person-hood on corporations.
Paul Cienfuegos adds the part of the story that’s shrouded in secrecy – disclosing the many other decisions that make corporations so powerful today. And he shows a way out that is successfully practiced by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. CELDF, by the summer of 2013, has helped 150 communities in 9 states to ban corporate fracking, corporate mining, corporate water withdrawal for bottling, urban sewage sludge dumping on farm land, and unsustainable energy production.
Paul Cienfuegos is a workshop leader, lecturer and writer. He has devoted most of his adult life to social change work, including nuclear power, nuclear disarmament, ancient forest protection, water protection and more. He was trained by CELDF and is now working closely with their legal experts, teaching workshops to inspire communities to set and defend their own local rules.
Cienfuegos came to Willits, California, to present a short version of his two day workshop. This is part one of his one hour opening history lesson, given on July 1, 2013.
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