Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County (DUHC) educates citizens about the illegitimate seizure of our authority to govern ourselves. We design and implement grassroots strategies that exercise democratic power over corporations and governments. We seek to create a truly democratic society by provoking a non-violent popular uprising against corporate rule in Humboldt County that can serve as a model for other communities across the United States. Since 1996 Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County has been organizing on the grassroots level in the Redwood Coast of Northern California. We started as a study group of citizens interested in uncovering the history of democracy and corporate rule. In 1998, our work inspired a ballot initiative in the town of Arcata - the Arcata Advisory Measure on Democracy and Corporations (Measure F). This led to the city advisory committee known as the Committee on Democracy and Corporations (CDC), which seeks to promote local democracy and protection from abuses of large corporations in the community. For example, the CDC wrote and worked to pass a formula chain restaurant ordinance that keeps the number pf major chains operating in Arcata at the current number of 10. Similar measures have be taken by other communities since. Democracy Unlimited has grown into a thriving and active organization. Committed to a model of holistic systemic change based on JoAnna Macy’s “Great Turning”, we base our work around the three program areas of (1) Resisting the dominant system of rule by corporations (2) Promoting and nurturing alternative systems and (3) Shifting culture. A few examples of our work in this context are (1) leadership in Humboldt County to pass the ground breaking ballot initiative, the Humboldt County Ordinance for Fair Elections and Local Democracy, which prohibits non-local corporations from contributing to our local elections and from claiming corporate constitutional rights to overturn the law. (2) We house the community currency project the Humboldt Exchange where scores of individuals and dozens of local businesses accept out local currency in support of a bioregional economy. (3) Finally, education is a main component of shifting culture to where we as citizens can assert our rights and have the knowledge and skills to exercise genuine democratic control over our institutions. As we strive to organize for a genuine democracy in our society, we recognize the importance of democracy within our organization. We work collectively and share power, use full consensus in decision-making, and we all work and educate ourselves to be better anti-oppression allies.