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    Rising to the Challenge: Entrepreneurs Building Living Economies

(May 21, 2009 - May 23, 2009)

We invite you to join fellow business owners, community investors, economic development experts, and sustainability leaders as we share best practices, discover new connections, and set the course for building local living economies.

    Local Democracy Convention: The Community Power Road to Democracy

The Local Democracy Convention will feature some of the most cutting-edge local democracy organizing going on in the US and around the world. Convention participants will have opportunity to attend plenaries, panels, skills-building workshops, strategy sessions, and a party or two. Whether you have been doing local democracy work for years, or are just discovering that your concerns are directly related to local power and democracy, join us this fall for what is sure to be a defining moment in the development of a new democracy movement in the United States!

    Democracy Track at the U.S. Social Forum

The Democracy Track is a series of sessions and community spaces at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia, June 27-July 1, 2007. The purpose of these sessions is to centralize democracy in all of our everyday struggles.

Publications & Talks

    Prospects for Participatory Democracy in the U.S.A

"The task . . . is to facilitate the growth of an aggressive democracy movement in the United States."

    Video from the Local Democracy Convention

Edited video footage from the 2006 Local Democracy Convention is now online, and also available for order!

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~ Emma Goldman