Seizing the Reins:

We the People and Building Sustainable Communities

When: Wednesday, October 12th

Where: Grant Hall Theater

    Alaska Pacific University

Time: 6:30pm Refreshments

           7-9pm Lecture & Discussion

Presented by:

Thomas Linzey, co-founder of Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund

Richard Grossman, co-founder of the Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy

Corporations versus Democracy—can we resist corporate attempts to override local control so that we are able to build the kind of sustainable and democratic communities we want to live in? Thomas Linzey, co-founder and president of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, and Richard Grossman, co-founder of the Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy, will describe the heroic efforts of several rural Pennsylvania communities to ban factory farm and sludge corporations in their jurisdictions and how their organizing model and legal strategies can be applied to a variety of other issues all over the country.

For more information, call Alaska Community Action on Toxics at 222-7714. We are also hosting a 2-day Democracy School presented by Thomas Linzey and Richard Grossman October 10-12—space is limited; please call to reserve space.

Sponsored by Alaska Community Action on Toxics, Alaska Center for Appropriate Technology, and Alaska Pacific University’s Sustainability Committee