Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Fwd: Registration Now Open CCFC's 2010 Consuming Kids Summit


The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood Reclaiming Childhood from Corporate Marketers

Praise for CCFC Summits:

"Just the right balance ofinfuriating info and inspiration."

"An amazing opportunity to meet and network with like-minded, motivated activists for change."

"I left thinking about what I can do in my own home to fortify the lives of my children (and myself)...I was so inspired...andwe had so much fun."


Register Now! 

CCFC's 7th National Summit:

Consuming Kids:  Market Values, Human Values, and the Lives of Children

April 8-10, 2010

Wheelock College

Boston, MA


The values children learn in the marketplace - excessive consumption, impulse buying, and unthinking brand loyalty - are antithetical to healthy development, independent thinking, spirituality, community, and democracy. What happens to childhood - and society -- when market values trump human values? How can we make a difference?  What role can parents, educators, public health professionals, faith communities, and policy makers play in stopping the proliferation of market values, and in nurturing positive values, in a commercialized world?

Join CCFC and leading activists, scholars, and authors for the only national conference devoted to stopping the commercial exploitation of children. Register by November 1st to take advantage of recession-busting, super early bird rates and to beat the rush.  Our last summit sold out early! Register now at: http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/events.htm

Confirmed speakers already include:

Enola Aird, founder, Mothers for Human Future - Tim Kasser, author, The High Price of Materialism - Sharon Lamb & Lyn Mikel Brown, authors, Packing Boyhood & Packaging Girlhood - Lenore Skanazy, author, Free Range Kids  Nancy Carlsson-Paige, author, Taking Back Childhood  -  Allen Kanner, co-editor, Psychology and Consumer Culture  Diane Levin, co-author, So Sexy, So Soon, Susan Linn, author, The Case for Make Believe  - and many, many more to come!


Scholarships available - please visit http://commercialfreechildhood.org/events/summitscholarship2010.html for more information.

Can't make the summit? Help someone else attend by supporting CCFC's summit scholarship fund.



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