California’s Cienfuegos to hold lecture, workshop on anti-corporate activism
Activist Paul Cienfuegos will be in Eugene today and Saturday to deliver a lecture on curbing corporate business ownership and to conduct a media workshop on how to democratically take control of corporately owned media outlets.
Today at 7 p.m. in Pacific 123, Cienfuegos will deliver a lecture about his work with the city of Arcata Committee on Democracy and Corporations. Cienfuegos’ actions helped lead to the creation of a government committee that, in 2002, passed a ban on any new corporate chain restaurants in that California city.
Saturday, from 2 p.m.- 5 p.m. in Columbia 44, Cienfuegos will conduct a media workshop discussing tactics and strategies to take control of corporately owned news stations and newspapers.
The lecture and workshops are hosted by Money is Not Democracy and the Justice Not War Coalition. MIND is currently working to get a statewide initiative on the ballot that would prohibit corporate contributions to candidates in Oregon elections.

— Jared Paben