Abolishing Corporate Personhood
with Karen Coulter
Thursday, Feb 23
6pm - Lecture Hall 3

There will be popcorn!!! This event is FREE; donations are welcome.

"When people live in a culture defined by corporate values, common sense evaporates. We stop trusting our own eyes, ears, and feelings. Our minds become colonized." - POCLAD

This interactive speaking event and workshop explores the concept of "corporate personhood": how corporations have invaded every facet of today's society, in which they control basic human needs and are granted the same civil rights as individual people, enjoying governmental and NGO protection despite committing atrocities.

..."how fundamental relationships that govern our lives were established (for example, why most corporate harms against life, liberty, property and democratic self-governance are regarded as legal; how corporations can deny their workers freedom of speech and other Bill of Rights protections); why decades of valiant citizen resistance, along with regulatory laws galore, have neither stopped corporate assaults nor shifted governing power to people and communities; and what people can do"

KAREN COULTER is a member of the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (poclad.org) and primary director of the Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project in eastern Oregon. Karen has been a grassroots activist on environmental, anti-nuclear and social justice issues since 1980; part of the Earth First! movement since 1984; worked for the AFSC against the MX missile; for Greenpeace International as Acid Rain campaigner and international lobbyist on ozone depletion. She helped create the Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment.

This event will be cosponsored by a number of wonderful academic programs! It's completely FREE, although donations are welcome.