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Home Rule vs. Preemption NewsPSN: Trend defending state authority emergesDate: July 20, 2009RELEASE: Small Towns Challenge Military RecruitingDate: March 9, 2009YES! MAGAZINE: Spokane activists undeterred after defeat of Community Rights initiativeDate: November 4, 2009Take ActionLocal control of cable is under attacksource: Your local community cable stationState Preemption of Community Cablesource: Hear Us Now Consumers UnionEventsDemocracy Track at the U.S. Social ForumThe 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. Local Democracy Convention: The Community Power Road to DemocracyThe 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! Extending Democracy w/The Progressive, Manski, Farsetta, Gray, Wellstone(May 1, 2009 - May 2, 2009)Major speakers include Robert Redford, Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Barbara Ehrenreich, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and the editorial staff of the Progressive Magazine. Liberty Tree's Ben Manski, together with various members of Liberty Tree's Board of Directors and Board of Advisors -- John Nichols and Robert McChesney, among them -- will also be speaking at this exciting event. Publications & TalksProspects 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 ConventionEdited video footage from the 2006 Local Democracy Convention is now online, and also available for order! |
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