David James Duncan’s lecture takes a “show and tell” approach on one of the wild and scenic rivers that was the scene of a peoples’ victory over Big Oil in 2010. David also borrows (with permission) a Nez Perce creation myth to emphasize that there is no such thing as a “Corporate Person.” This legal fiction is a greed-spawned bastardization of a vital word that can only designate a living human being endowed with a heart, a conscience, and a soul. David also emphasizes throughout that to bring peace, balance, and wholeness to our too-often-angry activist efforts, we need creative, artistic, and spiritual practices and down time in the places we love. This talk is a part of the Bedrock Lectures on Human Rights and Climate Change presented by the Spring Creek Project.
