Richard Grossman Lectures in Seattle on Democracy and Corporations
In February of 2005, I invited Thomas Linzey and Richard Grossman of the Democracy Schools program to lecture in Seattle. I've finally put the videos up on YouTube. Here, Grossman gives a detailed history of democracy and organizing in the corporate state.
Violated, intimidated and beguiled long before either Bush, majorities have resorted to pleading with agents of our corporate state for less usurpation, less destruction. With few exceptions, people in citizen organizations large and small have truckled to historical illusions, illogics and lawyering of this corporate culture. In the 1880s and 1890s, farmers, workers and intellectuals came together as Populists to stop the corporate state and corporate culture emerging out of the original slave state and slave culture. Populists taught one another to see by learning to trust their collective experiences. They unearthed earlier generations’ language of democratic self-governance and rights. They acted collectively as free people. In Pennsylvania townships today, people are teaching each other to pass laws asserting their authority to govern. When apoplectic corporate agents lawyer up, Pennsylvanians pass more township laws denying the corporate class. What’s going on?
Video Introduction to The Democracy School
NOW Program on Pennsylvania Community Organizers in St. Thomas
Is "Rights-Based" Organizing a Future Strategy for Environmental Activism?
Schedule of National Democracy Schools.
If you are interested in having us plan another Seattle-based Democracy School, email me of your interest.
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