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<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Larry Dansinger</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>From Chad Nicholson:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><!--StartFragment--> <div class="Section1"> <div style="border:double windowtext 4.5pt;mso-border-top-alt:thin-thick-small-gap; mso-border-left-alt:thin-thick-small-gap;mso-border-bottom-alt:thick-thin-small-gap; mso-border-right-alt:thick-thin-small-gap;mso-border-color-alt:windowtext; mso-border-width-alt:4.5pt;padding:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-top-alt:thin-thick-small-gap;mso-border-left-alt:thin-thick-small-gap; mso-border-bottom-alt:thick-thin-small-gap;mso-border-right-alt:thick-thin-small-gap; mso-border-color-alt:windowtext;mso-border-width-alt:4.5pt;padding:0in; mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:28.0pt; font-family:"Baskerville Old Face"">The Daniel Pennock Democracy School<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face"">An essential 1-day intensive for community activists, elected officials, and concerned citizens who want to enact positive, fundamental protection for their communities and environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Democracy School explores the limits of conventional regulatory organizing and offers a new organizing model <span class="apple-style-span">to reframe exhausting and often discouraging single issue work (such as opposing corporate water withdrawals, wind farms, factory farms, etc.) in a way that confronts corporate control on a powerful single front: people’s constitutional rights.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> </div> <span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><br clear="ALL" style="page-break-before:auto;mso-break-type:section-break"> </span> <div class="Section2"><p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="margin-right:-31.1pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="margin-right:-31.1pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face"">Saturday, October 30 8:30am-5pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="margin-right:-31.1pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="margin-right:-31.1pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="margin-right:-31.1pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face"">Unitarian Universalist Church of Belfast<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="margin-right:-31.1pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="margin-right:-31.1pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="margin-right:-31.1pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face"">Tuition: $100, includes curriculum<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="margin-right:-31.1pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face"">Scholarships available, please inquire<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" align="right" style="text-align:right"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"/> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"/> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"/> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"/> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"/> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"/> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"/> </v:formulas> <v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"/> <o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t"/> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:240pt; 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mso-border-left-alt:thin-thick-small-gap;mso-border-bottom-alt:thick-thin-small-gap; mso-border-right-alt:thick-thin-small-gap;mso-border-color-alt:windowtext; mso-border-width-alt:4.5pt;padding:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-top-alt:thin-thick-small-gap;mso-border-left-alt:thin-thick-small-gap; mso-border-bottom-alt:thick-thin-small-gap;mso-border-right-alt:thick-thin-small-gap; mso-border-color-alt:windowtext;mso-border-width-alt:4.5pt;padding:0in; mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face""><b><u>What Folks are Saying About Democracy School…<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-top-alt:thin-thick-small-gap;mso-border-left-alt:thin-thick-small-gap; mso-border-bottom-alt:thick-thin-small-gap;mso-border-right-alt:thick-thin-small-gap; mso-border-color-alt:windowtext;mso-border-width-alt:4.5pt;padding:0in; mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face""><b><u> <o:p></o:p></u></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-top-alt:thin-thick-small-gap;mso-border-left-alt:thin-thick-small-gap; mso-border-bottom-alt:thick-thin-small-gap;mso-border-right-alt:thick-thin-small-gap; mso-border-color-alt:windowtext;mso-border-width-alt:4.5pt;padding:0in; mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";color:black">"I learned in Democracy School that no group in our country has ever received the rights they believed were theirs without a very intense struggle. I learned that the people in my small Maine town could move towards a much more sustainable future by exercising the rights given to us in our Constitution, by re-examining the ways that we lose those rights, and by using the tools offered to build a sustainable community and enhance our lives in Monroe.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-top-alt:thin-thick-small-gap;mso-border-left-alt:thin-thick-small-gap; mso-border-bottom-alt:thick-thin-small-gap;mso-border-right-alt:thick-thin-small-gap; mso-border-color-alt:windowtext;mso-border-width-alt:4.5pt;padding:0in; mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face"">-Allyn Beecher, Monroe<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-top-alt:thin-thick-small-gap;mso-border-left-alt:thin-thick-small-gap; mso-border-bottom-alt:thick-thin-small-gap;mso-border-right-alt:thick-thin-small-gap; mso-border-color-alt:windowtext;mso-border-width-alt:4.5pt;padding:0in; mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face""><b><u> <o:p></o:p></u></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-top-alt:thin-thick-small-gap;mso-border-left-alt:thin-thick-small-gap; mso-border-bottom-alt:thick-thin-small-gap;mso-border-right-alt:thick-thin-small-gap; mso-border-color-alt:windowtext;mso-border-width-alt:4.5pt;padding:0in; mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face"">“If you take no other training this year, do the Democracy School. It is a superlative unfolding revelation<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-top-alt:thin-thick-small-gap;mso-border-left-alt:thin-thick-small-gap; mso-border-bottom-alt:thick-thin-small-gap;mso-border-right-alt:thick-thin-small-gap; mso-border-color-alt:windowtext;mso-border-width-alt:4.5pt;padding:0in; mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face"">of how corporations have hijacked democracy. It meticulously deconstructs the historical arc that brought<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-top-alt:thin-thick-small-gap;mso-border-left-alt:thin-thick-small-gap; mso-border-bottom-alt:thick-thin-small-gap;mso-border-right-alt:thick-thin-small-gap; mso-border-color-alt:windowtext;mso-border-width-alt:4.5pt;padding:0in; mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face"">us to this precipice. But most importantly, it then departs into the highly pragmatic and inspiring work now<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-top-alt:thin-thick-small-gap;mso-border-left-alt:thin-thick-small-gap; mso-border-bottom-alt:thick-thin-small-gap;mso-border-right-alt:thick-thin-small-gap; mso-border-color-alt:windowtext;mso-border-width-alt:4.5pt;padding:0in; mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face"">underway that is slowly turning the tide. . . This Second American Revolution may be the most important<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-top-alt:thin-thick-small-gap;mso-border-left-alt:thin-thick-small-gap; mso-border-bottom-alt:thick-thin-small-gap;mso-border-right-alt:thick-thin-small-gap; mso-border-color-alt:windowtext;mso-border-width-alt:4.5pt;padding:0in; mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face"">political work going on anywhere in the country or the world.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-top-alt:thin-thick-small-gap;mso-border-left-alt:thin-thick-small-gap; mso-border-bottom-alt:thick-thin-small-gap;mso-border-right-alt:thick-thin-small-gap; mso-border-color-alt:windowtext;mso-border-width-alt:4.5pt;padding:0in; mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face"">-Kenny Ausubel, Democracy School ‘05, Founder and Co-Executive Director, Bioneers<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face""><b><u> <o:p></o:p></u></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face""><b><u>Democracy School Lecturers<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face"">Ben Price, Projects Director, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face"">Gail Darrell, New England Community Organizer, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face""><b>TO REGISTER:</b></span><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face""> Contact Chad, at <a href="mailto:chad@celdf.org">chad@celdf.org</a>, or 207.541.3649<o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div></body></html>