Eighth Annual Martin Luther King Celebration
Corporate Power, Climate Change, the Economy:
Everything is Connected
Date: Saturday, January 16
Time: 1:00 PM to 5:15 PM
Place: Philip Tarro Auditorium at Skagit Valley College,
2405 E. College Way, Mount Vernon
Three presentations will be followed by discussion among all present. The presentations:
Paul Cienfuegos - Dismantling Corporate Power: The hidden history and root causes of the corporate takeover of our democracy; strategies for recovering democracy.
John Rawlins - 21st Century: Humanity's Bottleneck Century -- It's not just peak oil, but peak everything!
Joel Magnuson - Neo-classical Economics: How to produce stuff (but not well-being), war and oppression (but not security), and top it off with environmental devastation!
Suggested donation: $10 (to cover the expenses of the event)
Sponsored by People for a Peaceable Planet and
Calling All Colors of Skagit Valley College
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Paul Cienfuegos is the co-founding director of Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County based in Arcata, CA, and is the co-author of “Measure F: The Arcata Advisory Initiative on Democracy and Corporations.” He gives lectures and workshops on corporations and democracy, and was a featured speaker at this year's Village Building Convergence in Portland. Listen to an interview with Paul on KBOO Radio Portland: http://kboo.fm/node/14909.
With a Ph. D. in nuclear physics, John Rawlins has taught college physics, most recently at Whatcom Community College, and spent nearly 20 years working in the nuclear power facilities at Hanford. Since 2004, he has made an intensive study of the world's terminal consumption not just of petroleum (peak oil), but also of other conventional energy sources (coal, natural gas, uranium), and how that will affect the world's industrial and food systems, both of which are dependent on cheap, abundant energy.
Joel Magnuson, Ph.D. is an economist based in Portland, Oregon and specializes in non-orthodox approaches to political economy. He is an active member of an international research group based in Europe that is working toward new philosophical foundations for economic theory and practice. He is a visiting fellow at the Ashcroft International Business School at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, England and advisor to the editorial board of Anglia's journal, Interconnections. Magnuson is most known for his book, Mindful Economics: How The U.S. Economy Works, Why It Matters, and How It Could Be Different, published by Seven Stories Press, New York, 2008.
