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DESCRIPTION:Concerned Citizens\nYou Are Invited to a\nGroundbreaking One-day Seminar 
 on\nTaking Back Our Rights\n\nONE DAY DEMOCRACY SCHOOL\nSun., Nov. 8  Santa 
 Cruz      \n831-425-3365 (info, registration) 
 \nPACT.ordinance@gmail.com\n\nRead below why you may want to join 
 us.\n\nRegistration deadline Oct. 23!\n$45 - $60 sliding scale, some 
 scholarships available\n\nTaught by Ben Price (Community Environmental 
 Legal Defense Fund) & Shannon Biggs (Global Exchange). \nSponsored by 
 PeopleAgainstChemicalTrespass.org\n\nRead why you will want to join 
 us...\nCDFA Anticipated to ResumeToxic LBAM Program in Early 2010\nThe CDFA 
 continues to put us through regulatory hoops (EIR, Reclassification, 
 Petitions, Senate hearings, etc.) They have\ndiscounted all credible 
 evidence presented by experts who say\nthe moth is not a threat and 
 eradication is not feasible. We\nanticipate that they will re-implement 
 their toxic LBAM\neradication program in early 2010.\n\nWhy Haven’t We 
 Been Able to Stop Their Plans to\nExpose Our Community to Toxic Pesticides? 
  The CDFA has the California Pesticide “Preemption Law” on its side. 
 Put in place in 1984 with pressure from huge pesticide lobbies, this state 
 law says that We The People have no right to decide what happens in our 
 community when it comes to large scale pesticide applications. People 
 don’t believe we have the right to challenge this law, but our CA State 
 Constitution says that WE DO. And if we want to stop the LBAM program and 
 future programs like it, then we must challenge this unjust law! The City 
 of Santa Cruz Local Control, Pesticide and Chemical Trespass Ordinance does 
 challenge this law.\n\nWho Decides?\nWho Decides whether you’re sprayed 
 with chemicals from planes? .. or from trucks around your home?\nWho 
 Decides whether your children’s lives are endangered by chemical sprays 
 linked to asthma and other lung distress?\nWho Decides whether our organic 
 farmers can produce healthy food for our families - untainted by 
 pesticides?\nWho Decides that your health and safety and that of your 
 children is less important than corporate profits?\n\nWe The People have 
 the right to, and should decide!\n\nYou are invited to a One Day Democracy 
 School where history and civil law will be presented  which may\ntransform 
 your very belief system. \n\nWe hope to inspire a Citizens’ Movement to 
 challenge the CA Pesticide Preemption Law. The movement has already begun 
 with the writing of the "City of Santa Cruz Local Control Pesticide and 
 Trespass Ordinance."\n\nWe are the ones we have been waiting for!\nEvery 
 social justice movement, from the abolition of slavery, to Women's 
 Suffrage, to the Civil Rights Movement has had to Challenge Unjust Laws to 
 end institutionalized oppression and codify basic rights in law.\n\nOver 
 125 communities across the country (celdf.org) have successfully challenged 
 unjust law that denies fundamental inalienable right to local self 
 government in cases like uranium mining, and toxic dumping. We can do the 
 same!\n\nONE DAY DEMOCRACY SCHOOL  Santa Cruz Sun., Nov. 
 8\n831-425-3365\n\nPeopleAgainstChemicalTrespass.org      and   CELDF.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/12/18625269.php
SUMMARY:DEMOCRACY SCHOOL: Taking Back Our Rights
LOCATION:200 Washington St.,\nDowntown Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/12/18625269.php
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