Government & Politics

OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, presents Dr. William Vizzard and his lecture 'History of U.S. Gun Control Policy.' Session 2 of 2.

OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, presents Dr. William Vizzard and his lecture 'History of U.S. Gun Control Policy.' Session 1 of 2.

OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, presents Barry Spector and his lecture 'The Myth of American Innocence.' Session 2 of 2.

OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, presents Barry Spector and his lecture 'The Myth of American Innocence.' Session 1 of 2.

Tuma, Fields, Ringwalt.

Tuma, Fields, Ringwalt.

Tuma, Fields, Ringwalt.

Thomas Linzey, Exec Dir of Community Environment Legal Defense Fund (CELFD.org) continues his presentation regarding how the regulatory system functions to control you, not the industry it purportedly regulates. He notes that the question of who decides has been centralized but people are learning how to resist. And discusses how we have been boxed in and the doctrines that accomplice that. Several examples of how people have resisted, a resistance which started in rural Pennsylvania, moved to New England, Philadelphia and internationally to Ecuador.

This program features an address by Thomas Linzey, Exec Director of Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF.org) on how we have gotten to the situation we find ourselves in and how using the regulatory system to escape that situation has failed. Why? Because the regulations were written by those who are supposed to be regulated. Tom goes on to address how English Common Law and the US Constitution have been used to establish the regulatory system and corporate power. And looks at the use of preemptive law to limit local democracy.