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Humboldt County, CA (Eureka)

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Presentations and discussion will focus on the history of people’s struggles for democratic self-governance in the U.S., and analysis of how corporations, courts and legislators have manipulated law and culture to empower corporations with the constitutional rights intended for natural persons. We will focus on legal and educational strategies to more successfully organize for local democracy in our communities, including looking at case studies such as Measure T in Humboldt County – a ballot initiative passed in June 2006 that prohibits non-local corporations from participating in local elections – and other cutting-edge campaigns from across the country.

Deep Democracy Retreats are right for you if you are:
* an activist, leader, organizer, or trainer engaged in issues of economic, environmental or social justice in your community;

* an educator, activist, organizer, or trainer seeking to improve your understanding of the history of corporate power and more effective strategies for resistance.

By the end of the weekend workshop participants will have a background on how corporate leaders and current judicial interpretations of the law are preventing us from defining our own communities. Emphasis of this weekend will be on giving participants the history, analysis, networks, and legal and educational strategies to more successfully organize for local democracy in their communities.

This three day retreat will be hosted at the Democracy Unlimited Headquarters in Eureka, CA. Eureka is situated on the Redwood Coast of Northern California. The city is very near the largest and tallest stands of the world’s tallest trees, the coastal redwoods; the longest stretch of undeveloped coastline in the continental United States, the Lost Coast; and six of California’s most scenic rivers. This retreat offers optional day trips on either end (Thursday and Monday) for participants to explore the Pacific Ocean and redwood forest and the surrounding scenic beauty.

Participants will also have the opportunity to visit with the local community and volunteers who are spearheading the cutting-edge democracy organizing that has been taking place in Humboldt County for the past decade.

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http://DUHC.org/deepDemocracy.html

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