Kansas City area

We are Kansas City area citizens who want to revoke the power of corporations to influence elections and public policy at every level of government. Chapter Mission below

ReclaimDemocracy.org offers new course on Building Democracy and Revoking Corporate Power via University of Missouri Kansas City

Members of the executive board of the Kansas City chapter of ReclaimDemocracy.org have organized a Communiversity class at UMKC titled Challenging Corporate Power. Join in a study and discussion of corporate power, the 14th amendment and illegitimate use of constitutional rights. A series created by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, this class is dedicated to understanding how corporations became a “natural person,” illegitimately using these powers to define our law, politics, jurisprudence, work, technologies, food, communities... you name it! Bring $2 for materials to class if you would like a notebook of the readings. Readings also will be available via our website.

We will provide a wealth of materials for the course, including excerpts from many books including A People's History of the United States by Howard Zynn, The Populist Moment by Lawrence Goodwyn, The People's Business by Lee Drutman and Charlie Cray, and Gangs of America by Ted Nace.

You can register for this course by phone, website, email, fax, or in-person at The Communiversity office located at 5327 Holmes, 2nd floor. Info on registration is available at http://www.umkc.edu/commu/register.asp.
CONVENER: Mary Lindsay and Jon Matthew
CLASS FEE: $16
Website: ReclaimDemocracy.org/KC
E-mail: kc@ReclaimDemocracy.org
Phone: 816-885-9996
Sec. A: 10 sessions
- Thursdays, beginning January 24, 7:00 PM-8:30 PM
- NEW LOCATION: UMKC Campus 4747 Troost, Room 12, KCMO
- #8005 A

Challenging Corporate Power, Asserting the People's Rights - Discussion Group Topic Outline
Session I — Introduction
Session II — Historical Overview of the Corporation Taking of Our Authority to Govern
Session III — Corporate Personhood
Session IV — The Regulatory State
Session V — Private Property and the Recovery of the Commons
Session VI — People's and Workers' Resistance Movements
Session VII — Economic Development and Militarism
Session VIII — Global Corporatization
Session IX — What Does Democracy Look Like?
Session X — Where Do We Go From Here: Local Campaign Development