GRI is reigniting this course to confront the illegitimate actions of a wealthy few debasing our democracy and ignoring imminent environmental threats to life as we know it. GRI’s original course on GrassRoots Solutions to Corporate Power exposed the historic and current actions of corporations to destroy our democracy and imperiling the environmental future of the planet. We have updated this course to focus on the money powered elite who are enriching themselves with the corporate system, while impoverishing most of humanity and destroying the natural systems crucial to our survival on planet earth. We need to understand where things went wrong in the past if we are going to build a viable path for a vibrant future.  

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We advocate for solutions to strengthen our democracy and ensure a healthy environmental future. We push to reclaim our democracy by getting money out of politics and ending voter suppression. We promote worker and community control of our economy. We advocate for changing our legal system to recognize and embrace the rights of nature. 

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 This course exposes the faulty assumptions of the wealthy aristocrats of the British Empire who developed classical economic theory. They based the economy on faulty assumptions that Earth’s resources would last forever, that natural systems providing the basis for our survival have no value, and that labor would only be paid subsistence wages. 

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These early economists also promulgated the fallacious idea that the invisible hand of the market would provide maximum benefits for all. In reality, the rich will always be the winners in any market situation. Markets also fail to take into account the earth destroying costs of pollution, resource depletion, human alienation and much more caused by the hierarchical economic system imposed on us by economic elites. Those costs are mounting and we are going to suffer the consequences unless we start solving the systemic problems soon. This course provides tools and resources to develop the needed solutions. It is our time to do it.

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Thanks for being involved. 

Jim Tarbell

rtp@mcn.org

Jess Green

Jessgreen444@outlook.com

Caspar, California

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WHEN:
4/5, 4/19, 5/3, 5/17, 5/31, 6/14, 6/28, and 7/12

9 AM-1 PM

LOCATION:

MENDOCINO COLLEGE COAST CENTER ROOM 112

*HYBRID/ZOOM AVAILABLE*

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​Courses 7 + 8:

GRI's People Power Over Money Power Workshop 7 & 8: Global Governance: Who or What Will Rule the World?

In this time of planetary peril, join GRI’s final two People Power workshops. We will discuss how we can move beyond the failure of the nation state system to solve our most endemic global problems including big-tech bros’ attack on democracy, the climate crisis, perennial war, and tyranny of the oligarchy.
The first workshop on June 28 will look at the multiple ways elites wielding money power are destroying the institutions vital to our existence. 

It will feature:
• 5000 year Violence/Money/Democracy Power Timeline;
• History of Corporate Empire;
• Trade Agreements as Power;
• Stupidity of War;
• Military - Industrial Complex;
• Corporate/Pentagon Revolving Door;
• Sovereign Enclaves of the Rich.
 

The second workshop on July12 will look at viable solutions
for these cataclysmic times by:
• Expanding the Global Social Solidarity Economy Network;
• Replacing hierarchical domination with partnership collaborations;
• Establishing Peace In Our Time through Peace Literacy;
• Adopting Emory Reeves Anatomy of Peace;
• Developing Earth Consciousness in the Age of Aquarius.

The workshops begin at 9 AM. You can participate in each two-hour workshop in person in Room 114 of the Mendocino College Coast Center or by Zoom. For more information, email rtp@mcn.org

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Register for this course:
www.eventbrite.com/e/people-power-over-money-power-community-workshops-registration-1293052969239
 
Join the Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89399533913
Password: People