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DESCRIPTION:Shannon Biggs of Global Exchange\ndiscusses\n\nCommunity Rights and The 
 Commons\n\n7-9 pm, with complimentary supper\n\n189 Ellsworth St.\n\nRSVP 
 deeply appreciated\n\n\n\nShannon Biggs is the director of the Community 
 Rights program at Global Exchange. She recently co-authored two books, 
 Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grass Roots (PoliPoint 
 Press), and The Rights of Nature: The Case for a Universal Declaration of 
 the Rights of Mother Earth, a project of Council of Canadians, Global 
 Exchange, and Fundacion Pachamama.\nHer current work focuses on assisting 
 communities confronted by corporate harms to enact binding laws that place 
 the rights of communities and nature above the claimed legal "rights" of 
 corporations. Over 140 communities across the US have used this new 
 understanding to stop working defensively against corporations and take 
 courageous action to assert their rights to make governing decisions where 
 they live. This very different organizing model stems from a new 
 understanding about the origins of corporate power, developed by the 
 Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). She teaches this new 
 framework, known as "rights-based" organizing at weekend long Democracy 
 Schools, taught in San Francisco and in 23 states around the country. She 
 also teaches shorter trainings on both Community Rights and Rights of 
 Nature.\n \nPreviously, she was a senior staffer at International Forum on 
 Globalization (IFG), where she organized large international teach-ins and 
 wrote and edited for IFG publications. She also was a Lecturer in 
 International Relations at San Francisco State University.\n \nShannon 
 holds a Masters in Economics/Politics of Empire the London School of 
 Economics (LSE), and has a BS in International Relations from San Francisco 
 State University (SFSU).\n \n\n Shannon speaks to the following topics 
 through her base at Global Exchange:\n\n    Community Rights\n    Rights of 
 Nature\n    Democracy School\n    Food sovereignty, climate justice, water 
 rights and other issues in the context of community rights.\n    
 Rights-based organizing as a model for subordinating corporations to local, 
 democratic self-governance by communities.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/03/11/18733431.php
SUMMARY:Global Exchange and The Commons
LOCATION:Notable House\n189 Ellsworth St.\nSA, CA   94110
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/03/11/18733431.php
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