• Arrival of Attendees
  
• Wine & cheese reception
  
• Introductions of Attendees (Begin: 6:30 p.m.)
  
• Discussion:
  • "What is our Current Pattern of Activism?"
  • "Our Work Within the Regulatory System"
  • "What is Law and How is it Used?"
• A Brief Overview of the Democracy School and the Evolution of CELDF & Global Exchange
  
• Case Study: Traditional Organizing and Corporate Power -- Factory Farms

Saturday, (8:30 am - 6:00 pm)

• Colonialism: Creating and Replicating the English Structure of Law and Culture Across the Globe and the American Colonies
  • The History and Rise of the English Slave and Empire State
  • The Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Constitution
• A History of Peoples' Movements in the United States
  • The American Revolution
  • The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution
  • The Anti-Federalists
  • The Abolitionists and the Fourteenth Amendment
  • Womens' Rights and the Nineteenth Amendment
  • The Labor Movement
  • The Civil Rights Movement
• Building a Corporate State: a Minority Uses the Constitution to Override Community Self-Government
  • Early Corporate Chartering
  • Dartmouth College: Wrapping the Corporation in the Constitution
  • Municiple Charters vs. Corporate Charters
  • Transitioning from a Slave State to a Corporate State
  • Contemporary Corporate "Rights" and Powers
  
  
• Building New Models of Organizing (The Pennsylvania Model)
  
• The "Single Issue" Model: From Reframing to Winning
  
• Driving into Local Governing Arenas
  • Challenging and Contesting Corporations
  • Contesting Government Actions Empowering Corporations to Usurp Community Control
• From Reframing to Drawing the Corporate Response to Building New Constituencies to Winning
  
• Building a Legal Framework to Challenge and Eliminate Corporate Rights
  • The Porter and Licking Township, Clarion County Experience: Using Law to Eliminate Legal Privileges Claimed by Corporations
  • The Legal Defense Fund's Model Legal Brief to Eliminate Corporate Rights
• FROST v. St. Thomas Development, Inc.: A Rural South-Central Pennsylvania
  
• Community Organization Takes on the Constitutional "Rights" of a Quarry Corporation
  
• Building the Connections Amongst All Single Issues: Our History of Collaterally Challenging Illegitimate Corporate Authority