Friday
Arrival of Attendees
Dinner
Introductions of Attendees
Discussion:
“What is our Current Pattern of Activism?”
“What is Law?”
“How is Law Used and for What Purpose is it Used?”
How We Got Here: A Brief Overview of the School and the Evolution of POCLAD/CELDF
Traditional Organizing and Corporate Power – Factory Farms
Saturday
By the Few, of the Few, and For the Few: The Constitution’s Replication of a Slave and Empire Form of Governance
-The History and Rise of the English Slave and Empire State
- Constitution
A History of Peoples’ Movements in the United States
-The American Revolution
-The Declaration of Independence, The Articles of Confederation 
-The Anti-Federalists
-The Populists and The Progressives who destroyed their democracy movement
-The Abolitionists and the Fourteenth Amendment
-Womens’ Rights and the Nineteenth Amendment
-The Labor Movement
From a Slave State to a Corporate State
-Early Corporate Chartering
-Dartmouth College: Wrapping the Corporation in the Constitution
-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
Altering the Odds: Directly Challenging Corporate Rights
-The Porter and Licking Township, Clarion County Experience:
Using Law to Eliminate Legal Privileges Claimed by Corporations
Building a Legal Framework to Support Elimination of Corporate Rights
-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
Sunday
Building the Connections Amongst All Single Issues
-Our History of Collaterally Challenging Illegitimate Corporate Authority
Breakout: Reframing Single Issues by Rethinking Several Issues
An Exploration of Jurisdictions and Arenas
Other Constituencies
Critical Mass: Doing it Together and Building a Movement
This is the Work: Groups Across the United States Applying New Models
Discussion: How do we make real the Promises of Democracy?
"It is a perversion of terms to say that a charter gives rights. It operates by a contrary effect- that of taking rights away. Rights are inherently in all the inhabitants; but charters, by annulling those rights, in the majority, leave the right, by exclusion, in the hands of a few. If charters were constructed so as to express in direct terms, "that every inhabitant, who is not a member of a corporation, shall not exercise the right of voting," such charters would, in the face, be charters not of rights, but of exclusion. The effect is the same under the form they now stand; and the only persons on whom they operate are the persons whom they exclude. Those whose rights are guaranteed, by not being taken away, exercise no other rights than as members of the community they are entitled to without a charter; and, therefore, all charters have no other than an indirect negative operation. They do not give rights to A, but they make a difference in favour of A by taking away the right of B, and consequently are instruments of injustice." -- Thomas Paine on Corporations and Charters in "The Rights of Man"