On
Wednesday,
May 16 at the Ludwig center Shannon Biggs from Global
Exchange will be laying out the plans on how to approach the issue a
little differently from anything done in the past. She is a seasoned
veteran and has many successes to her credit. I invite you to attend
and be prepared to learn a new way of doing things. This is grassroots
stuff. Here is the press release with all the information. Invite your
friends. Thank you again for your interest. The event is free and
donations are welcomed. Jeanne
San
Luis
Obispo County Transition Towns
NEWS
RELEASE
Contact:
June
Cochran
(805)
773-2847
San
Luis
Obispo – Author and community activist, Shannon Biggs, will come
to San Luis Obispo on May 16, 2012 to speak about
“Who
Decides
What Happens in Our Communities – Corporations or Local
Residents?” The event will take place at the Ludwick Center,
864 Santa
Rosa Street, San Luis Obispo at 7:00 p.m.
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Topics
to
be covered include:
- Do
our
local communities have the right to self-determine stewardship of
the lands where we live?
- Does
Nature
have a Right to simply exist, persist, maintain and regenerate?
- What
is
Corporate Personhood? And what Rights does our community have to
abate and mitigate their impacts where we live?
Shannon
Biggs,
co-author of the book, The
Rights Of Nature, and Director of the Community Rights
Organizing Program at Global Exchange and Kylie Nealis, Community
Rights Program Associate at Global Exchange, will lead San Luis Obispo
County residents through an evening of information, discussion and a
call for action.
Learn
how
Las Vegas, NM, passed the first community bill of rights in the
Southwest recently. The City of Las Vegas adopted a rights based
ordinance establishing a local Bill of Rights and banning fracking and
related activities.
Should
a
river have the right to flow? Should trees have the right to grow?
What does it mean to give rights to nature and how different would our
world look if we did? Everyone is invited to attend this special
interactive presentation on nature’s rights where the leaders will
explore these questions and the emerging global movement for Mother
Earth’s rights.
Sponsored
by
San Luis Obispo County Transition Towns, Empower Poly, and People of
Faith for Justice (formerly CCCLJ).
Jeanne
Blackwell
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