Rancho El Chorro Outdoor School
San Luis Obispo, CA
Sliding Scale: $100/ $125/ $150 Some
scholarships will be provided.
Includes workshops, lodging, and
meals.
As the United States seems to be marching
ahead with plans for a pre-emptive war against Iraq, everyone in the
US is subject to new laws, including the Homeland Security Act and the
USA Patriot Act. How do these laws affect our rights as citizens and
activists? What can we do to preserve and use our constitutional
rights?
We invite you to a weekend retreat to explore these questions and
their implications for our country and our lives, facilitated by three
seasoned activists, with local resource people from law enforcement
and legal advocacy.
- We will learn about the new laws, how
they affect our constitutional rights, and how local agencies intend
to enforce them.
- We will strategize ways of exercising and protecting our civil
rights, as we work for peace and justice in these times.
- We will build strong "rough weather
networks" to overcome isolation, stay informed, and watch out for
each other.
Joanna Macy, internationally-known
peace activist, teacher of Buddhism and deep ecologist
Fran Macy, director of the Center
for Safe Energy, deep ecologist, and recipient of the Nuclear Free
Future Award for Lifetime Achievement
Pamella Meidell, director of the
Atomic Mirror, peace activist, and anti-nuclear activist
We will also be joined by attorney Jeff
Stein, Sgt. Ian Parkinson of the San Luis Obispo Police Department,
and a representative from the Southern California ACLU. They
will give us information and guidance regarding our rights as
activists.
Sponsored by Terra Foundation, EarthFlow
Design Works, Mothers for Peace. Nuclear Guardians, ECOSLO, ACLU, UU
Social Justice Committee, PSA, Passion for Peace, CCPEC.
For more information and registration,
email
Linda Seeley, CEO, Terra Foundation at
<lseeley@pacbell.net> or
Larry Santoyo, Director, Terra Foundation
at <democracy@earthflow.com>
Or call Terra Foundation at
805.544.8112
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[permaculture] Practicing Democracy Workshop (california),
Santoyo & Associates, 01/15/2003