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September 18, 2008
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Cepia Club Encourages “HOPE!” with Author’s Visit
Despite a misleading report in recent weeks that described the Cepia Club’s manager, Tim Krenz, as upset or dissatisfied with the months-long process between the Club and the Centuria village board of trustees to help the community, Cepia Club has responded by declaring September 26th- 28th a “Celebration of Hope and Optimism.”
The weekend of Friday September the 26th thru Sunday the 28th at the Cepia Club in Centuria and including Club’s participation at the St. Croix Falls Autumn Festival that Saturday , centers around the visit of Richard Campagna, the “Existential Optimist.” Campagna, a national ticket US vice presidential candidate in 2004, who campaigned then in western Wisconsin, is an international businessperson, lawyer, college law professor and author/contributor of this year’s To Play Along the Path: The Multifarious Ps of Existential Philosophy and Practice.
“Richard has been a Cepia Club favorite for years,” said Krenz. “From his writings and direct talk of why and how people can create optimistic attitudes and better lives, he contributes a concrete method to our Club’s core mission: To encourage awareness in individuals and activism with others, creating peaceful, positive change everywhere through strong family connection to local communities.”
Cepia Club, a media business on Main/Fourth Street, Centuria, WI, openly encourages a “revolution in American thinking” by challenging otherwise uncontested beliefs of politics, economics, and culture by supporting free-debate and open-minded, civil and rational discussions of the issues.
A central issue with which Cepia Club challenges is Krenz’s thesis that a managed, highly regulated capitalism IS NOT a free market. “A garage sale, a lemonade stand, an ‘underground’ market, or our own bazaar and barter store is more a template for a free market,” asserts Krenz. “How can we believe we’ve got true liberty as envisioned by the Declaration of Independence in this country when we’ll pay trillions from taxpayer monies for a century to save and subsidize the banking guild or the military-corporate sector? This is not what Jefferson, Adams, or Franklin wanted. They wanted reason and a republic of ‘We the People.’ What we now have is becoming, ‘Only for those who can afford to buy.’ But we can reclaim it by moral action.”
And it is through “free-minds and fair markets” that Cepia Club believes average people will act to save liberty and freedom in America. “Families and communities can live free in liberty and disobey what the government does against their values, against themselves,” says one Cepia Club theme. Hence, Campagna’s visit to western Wisconsin during the Celebration of Hope and Optimism is an opportunity for local people to learn a simple idea to start their own “revolution in American thinking” that leads to action. Call 715-646-9933 or visit www.cepiaclub.com for details on Cepia Club, the Existential Optimist, and activities during the weekend celebration.