Hopedance

Transition Towns
San Luis Obispo County
http://slotransitiontowns.org/

Who decides what happens in our communities – Corporations or Local Residents?

An evening of information, discussion and call for action.

*   May 16,  2012     Ludwick Center
    7:00 p.m.              864 Santa Rosa Street, San Luis Obispo

Donations Appreciated:  All Welcome

Topics to 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?

Guest Speakers:
Shannon Biggs, co-author of the book entitled The Rights Of Nature, and Director of the Community Rights Organizing Program at Global Exchange

Kylie Nealis, Community Rights Program Associate Global Exchange

“We, the peoples and nations of Earth: considering that we are all part of Mother Earth, an indivisible, living community of interrelated and interdependent beings with a common destiny …” - from the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth

Sponsored by San Luis Obispo Transition Towns.  
For more information call June Cochran at 805-773-2847.