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    Tuesday, December 05, 2023 at 05:00 PM
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    📚Gaveling Down the Rabble book discussion - Session 4

    How 'Free Trade' is Stealing Our Democracy

    Tuesday, December 5

    5pm PT | 8 pm ET 

    Facilitated by Greg Coleridge, Move to Amend Co-Director

    [Dec 5 Discussion: Chapters 7 & 8 -- 26 pages]

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    Synopsis

    In Gaveling Down the Rabble, author/activist Jane Anne Morris explores a century and a half of efforts by corporations and the courts to undermine local democracy in the United States via the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution as a “free trade” model – later adopted globally by corporations to subvert local attempts at protecting the environment and citizen and worker health.

    Gaveling Down the Rabble is essential reading for understanding the background of the current struggle for U.S. democracy — local, state and national — against growing corporate power and how we can challenge it.

    The U.S. Supreme Court has been cutting our local, state and national democracy off at the knees — in the name of "free trade" — by usurping the power to make public policy from our elected representatives in the Congress and the state legislatures and by giving power to corporations over citizens.

    By erecting a "free trade" zone in the U.S., corporations and their champions on the Supreme Court have seen to it that "we do not have a chance of building a democracy." Morris looks at what substantive democracy should look like, and how far from that ideal the Supreme Court — without consent of Congress — has moved us.

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    Wednesday, December 06, 2023 at 07:00 PM
    Online Platform in San Jose, CA

    SAN JOSE, CA: Santa Clara County Monthly Meeting

    Come join our efforts to pass a 29th Amendment. We are an active group in Santa Clara County, California. Monthly meetings are the first Wednesday of every month. RSVP To attend. 

    Please email [email protected] with any questions.

    Hope to see you there!

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