The CELDF Democracy School: Igniting a Rights Movement for Communities and Nature!
Democracy School is a stimulating and illuminating virtual course that teaches residents and activists an empowering new approach about how to reframe exhausting and often discouraging single-issue work – such as opposing fracking, overdevelopment, and pesticides, or advocating for worker rights, housing access, and protecting water – in a way that we can confront corporate control and government interference on a powerful front: the people’s right of local self-governance and Nature’s rights.
Educating your community is one of the most powerful steps toward change you can make. Here are the details for our upcoming virtual Democracy School event:
Each Democracy School is a 4 part session. Please register once for access to all 4 dates.
Democracy School is open to anyone – but we recommend finding a school hosted within your community to create meaningful dialogue and networking around the issues that are most important to you and your community.
Outline of Curriculum:The virtual Democracy School consists of 4 modules organized as lecture/presentation, small-group breakout discussion, and large-group discussion.
Module 1: Where We Are Now – Exposing Intentional Barriers to Community Self-Determination
Tuesday, January 5, 2021 from 7pm – 9:30pm EST
Module 2: How did we get here? The Power of Property
Friday, January 8, 2021 from 7pm – 9:30pm EST
Module 3: How we could make change – Asserting Rights
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 from 7pm – 9:30pm EST
Module 4: Where We Could End Up – Building a Movement for Real Change
Friday, January 15, 2021 from 7pm – 9:30pm EST
Space is limited. This will not be recorded and you must attend the live school. Please only register if you are able to attend all 4 events.
Links for course materials and access to Zoom will be sent out once all spots are filled (Minimum 15; Maximum 25). Attending all 4 modules is mandatory as each module builds on the previous one. Register using the form below.
Questions? Contact Tish O’Dell at tish@celdf.org