<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><br><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><base href="x-msg://564/"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="font-weight: normal; "><font face="Cambria" size="+1">Dear Concerned Friend:<br><br><x-tab> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></x-tab>We, Jim Tarbell and Michael St. John, invite you join us at our Mendocino College Community Extension Workshop on<i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Grassroots Solutions to Corporate Power</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>at the Fort Bragg campus, starting February 12, 2015. We will be meeting for 14 sessions on Thursday evening from 7-8:30 PM.</font><br><font face="Cambria" size="+1"></font></div><div><font face="Cambria" size="+1" style="font-weight: normal; "><x-tab> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></x-tab>Alliance for Democracy's<i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Justice Rising: Grassroots Solutions to Corporate Rule</i>, the publication that Jim created and has edited for the past ten years, will be the major resource for this workshop. Over one hundred authors, all experts in various aspects of corporate power and popular efforts to claim our democratic rights and power, have contributed to making Justice Rising the salient publication documenting the rise of resistance to corporate power. Authors have included Raj Patel, Herman Daly, Vandana Shiva, and many others. All of the issues of<i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Justice Rising</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>are available online at </font><a href="http://thealliancefordemocracy.org/" style="font-weight: normal; "><font size="+1"><u>http://thealliancefordemocracy.org/</u></font></a><font size="+1"><u style="font-weight: normal; "><br><br></u><font face="Cambria">The 14 sessions will be split into four subject areas:<br><br>o<b style="font-weight: normal; "> Corporations, Democracy, & The Rise of Grassroots Popular Power<br> <x-tab> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></x-tab></b>February 12,19, 26 & March 5<br>o<b style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Economic Democracy or Corporate Hegemony?</b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-weight: normal; "> </span>- March 12,19, 26<br>o<b style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Saving the Environment from Corporate Destruction</b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-weight: normal; "> </span>- April 9,16 & 23<br>o<b style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Who or What will Rule the World? Local/Global Governance<br></b><x-tab style="font-weight: normal; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></x-tab>April 30 & May 7, 14 & 21<br><br>We will discuss the history of corporate power and of popular democracy, although we will mainly be looking at how these two movements function today and where they are going in the future.<br><br><x-tab style="font-weight: normal; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></x-tab>You can sign up for the Workshop by phone at (707) 468-3236 or online at</font></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.mendocino.edu/tc/pg/5841/register_for_a_comex.html"><font face="Cambria" size="+1"><u>http://www.mendocino.edu/tc/pg/5841/register_for_a_comex.html</u></font></a><font face="Cambria" size="+1"><u><br><br></u><x-tab> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></x-tab>If you have questions or want more information, you can contact Jim Tarbell at 964-1323,<u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:rtp@mcn.org">rtp@mcn.org</a></u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or Michael St. John at 937-3711,<u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:msjetal@pacbell.net">msjetal@pacbell.net</a></u>. We are attaching a poster for the class for your information.<br><br>Join us in learning: how to keep corporate money from ruining our democracy; effective approaches to stop corporate practices from poisoning our planet; and ways to inhibit corporate self-interest from ruining our economy. We look forward to seeing you there.<br><br>Jim Tarbell & Michael St. John</font><br><font face="Cambria" size="+1"></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><font face="Cambria" size="+1"><br></font></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>