Dismantling Corporate “Rights” and Seizing Back the People’s Rights!
We the People are More Powerful than we Dare to Believe!
When: Saturday and Sunday, November 19 & 20
Saturday from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
Sunday from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
Where: at the Oregon Education Association building at 2815 Coburg Rd.
Cost: $100 per person. Scholarships are available – contact us.
Scholarships are for those with limited discretionary income, and may range from some of the cost to the full cost. Let us know what is appropriate for your financial situation.
Click here for a downloadable registration form
Contact us about this event at
wethepeopleeugene@gmail or willamettedams@q.com
541-255-2946 or 541 937-3034 or 541- 852-8851
Paul Cienfuegos has been a grassroots community organizer since the late 1970’s. Paul co-founded Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County (California) in 1996. He is a co-writer of The Arcata Advisory Initiative on Democracy and Corporations, which voters passed in 1998. He has authored numerous articles as well.
Paul was a founding member of the City of Arcata Committee on Democracy and Corporations, the first committee of its kind in U.S. history. He works to ensure democratic control over large for-profit corporations.
Paul’s Eugene teach-in on Monday, May 16 that we sponsored in Eugene was featured on the nationally syndicated program “Alternative Radio” on KLCC on October 11.
Click here to listen to Paul’s Eugene talk
Click here for more information about Paul
See Paul’s description of his workshop below, and see praise for similar workshops that Paul has conducted below.
Paul’s description of his workshop.
After an initial presentation, I will facilitate a series of focused discussions and small and large group exercises to assist participants in:
* understanding the history and root causes of the rise of corporate power, and corporate usurpation of our democratic authority to govern ourselves
* examining the local impacts of corporate rule, how citizens are currently challenging corporations locally, and how these efforts could be reframed to be more effective
* decolonizing our minds and our language from the firm grip of corporate culture
* taking time to express and feel our sorrow, anger, despair, etc about living in a society drenched in corporate culture
* learning the art of ‘democratic conversation’
* beginning to craft strategies to recover our democracy from corporate rule (with specific focus on existing local campaigns)
Praise for Paul’s workshops
“Paul Cienfuegos’ work is at the cutting edge of social change, blending keen analysis with invaluable experience in reclaiming our power from corporate hegemony. Having the good fortune of working with Paul for twenty years, I am grateful for his passionate commitment to democracy and ecological sanity. A lively speaker and a resourceful workshop leader, he helps us find concrete steps toward building a just and sustainable society.” – Joanna Macy, author of “Coming Back to Life”, California
“…Paul is a high-energy presenter whose engaging style is very effective at delivering the message citizens need to understand: corporations are the subordinate creations of “we the people” and we can and must reassert our sovereignty over them.” – Betsy Barnum, Executive Director, Great River Earth Institute, Minnesota
