Democracy coming to U.S.A.
1ST NATIONAL DEMOCRACY CONVENTION
“Make every decision relate to the welfare and well-being of the seventh generation to come.”
Sources edited by Carolyn Bennett for TIN
If you want to strengthen democracy where it matters most — in our communities, our schools, our workplaces and local economies, military, government, media, constitution — you will join the August convention http://democracyconvention.org/Madison, Wisconsin
August 24-28, 2011
http://democracyconvention.org/
http://democracyconvention.org/
2011 CONFERENCES
Earth Democracy
Reclaim the Commons for All Beings
People Power Over War & Peace
Representative Democracy
Voting Rights & Open Government
Local Democracy
Community Power & Local Participation
Media Democracy
A Free Press for a Free Society
Economic Democracy
Economics as if People Mattered
Racial Equality
I swear this oath. America will be!
Education for Democracy
Democratizing Our Schools & Colleges
Constitutional Reform
Amending Our Basic Law
August 24-28, 2011
Madison, Wisconsin
http://democracyconvention.org/
Madison Convention Speakers
1. Tom Hayden, Keynote 2. Michelle Shocked, Musician 3. Madison Mayor Paul Soglin 4. Gar Alperovitz, Professor, University of Maryland 5. Anne Feeney, Musician 6. John Nichols, The Nation 7. Adam Porton, Wisconsin Wave 8. Ald. Joe Moore, Chicago 9. Ben Manski, Liberty Tree 10. Beverly Speer, WI Democracy Campaign 11. Bill Thorington, Banker 12. Bryan Kennedy, President, AFT-Wisconsin 13. Cynthia Lin, Freedom, Inc. 14. Dace A. Zeps, Progressive Dane 15. David Cobb, Program on Corporations Law and Democracy 16. Diane Farsetta, WI Network for Peace and Justice 17. Erika Wolf, United Council of UW Students 18. Frank Emspak, Workers Independent News 19. George Friday, Independent Progressive Politics Network 20. Heidi Wegleitner, Progressive Dane 21. Jeff Clements, Free Speech for People 22. Jerome Scott, League of Revolutionaries for a New America 23. John Bonifaz, Voter Action | 24. Kabzuag Vaj, Freedom, Inc. 25. Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County 26. Kevin Zeese, It's Our Economy  27. Leah Bolger, Veterans for Peace28. Lisa Graves, Center for Media and Democracy 29. Maram Abdelhamid, Free Speech for People 30. Margaret Flowers, It's Our Economy 31. Mary Bottari, Center for Media and Democracy 32. Matt Nelson, Color of Change 33. Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive 34. Mike McCabe, Wisconsin Democracy Campaign 35. Molly Stentz, WORT 89.9FM Community Radio 36. Monica Adams, Freedom, Inc. 37. Nancy Price, Alliance for Democracy 38. Norman Stockwell, WORT 89.9FM Community Radio 39. Riki Ott, Ultimate Civics 40. Rob Richie, Fair Vote USA 41. Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association 42. Sam Munger, Center on Wisconsin Strategy 43. Sarah Manski, WI Positive Business Alliance 44. State Rep. Michael Fisher, Lincoln, Vermont 45. Ted Glick, Independent Progressive Politics Network 46. Z! Haukeness, Groundwork . . . with many more to be announced . . . |
Participants Coming From:
1. Albany 2. Alton 3. Amherst 4. Ann Arbor 5. Annandale 6. Antelope 7. Arlington 8. Asheville 9. Ashland 10. Atlanta 11. Aurora 12. Austin 13. Baltimore 14. Beachwood 15. Beaver Dam 16. Belmont 17. Belton 18. Bethany 19. Black Mountain 20. Blue Mounds 21. Boston 22. Brandon 23. Britt 24. Brodheadsville Brookfield 25. Brooklyn 26. Burlington 27. Cambridge 28. Canton 29. Cedar 30. Cedar Rapids 31. Centennial 32. Centreville 33. Chapel Hill 34. Chicago 35. Cincinnati 36. Cleveland Heights Clintonville 37. Coldwater 38. Colleyville 39. Columbus 40. Conklin 41. Cordova 42. Corinth 43. Cottage Grove 44. Crystal Lake 45. Concord 46. Curtis 47. Cuyahoga Falls 48. DeBruce 49. Decatur 50. Deerfield 51. Defiance 52. Delavan 53. Des Moines 54. Detroit 55. Dodgeville | 56. Dowell 57. Duluth 58. East Lansing 59. Eau Claire 60. Edgerton 61. Efland 62. Enfield 63. Eugene 64. Eureka 65. Evansville 66. Falls Church 67. Ferndale 68. Fitchburg 69. Fort Bragg 70. Fort Collins 71. Fort Myers 72. Fort Thomas 73. Fortuna 74. Frederic 75. Fullerton 76. Greenville 77. Guerneville Hollidaysburg 78. Indian Rocks Beach Iowa City 79. Irvine 80. Janesville 81. Kansas City 82. Kenosha 83. Kyoto, Japan 84. La Crosse 85. Lafayette 86. Las Vegas 87. Lawrence 88. Litchfield 89. Los Angeles 90. Madison 91. Maple 92. Marshall 93. Marysville 94. Mastic Beach McFarland 95. McHenry 96. Medina 97. Middleton 98. Milford 99. Milton 100. Milwaukee 101. Minneapolis 102. Mondovi 103. Monona 104. Montello 105. Moorhead 106. Morrison 107. Mound Valley 108. Mount Horeb 109. Naperville 110. NaplesNew Brunswick | 111. New York 112. Newcastle 113. North Hollywood 114. North Hudson 115. North Kansas City 116. Northbrook 117. Novato 118. Oakland 119. Olympia 120. Orange 121. Oregon 122. Orleans 123. Pell Lake 124. Phoenix 125. Placerville 126. Portland 127. Racine 128. Redmond 129. Redway 130. Richland Center Rockford 131. Royal Oak 132. S. Pasadena 133. S. Yarmouth 134. Salida 135. San Francisco 136. Santa Cruz 137. Santa Fe 138. Santa Rosa 139. Seattle 140. Shawnee 141. Shoreline 142. Shoreview 143. Silver Spring 144. Skokie 145. Smithtown 146. Somerville 147. Spencer 148. Springfield 149. St. Paul 150. St. Louis 151. St. Paris 152. St. Pete Beach 153. Stevens Point 154. Stevenson 155. Stoughton 156. Sublimity 157. Sun Prairie 158. Tavares 159. Tempe 160. Tigard 161. Tucson 162. Union Grove 163. Valencia 164. Venice 165. Verona 166. Wantagh 167. Washington, D.C. 168. Watertown 169. Waukesha 170. Westerville 171. Willits . . . and more! |
Further sources and notes
Liberty Tree
Liberty Tree is uniquely committed to building a new democracy movement for the U.S.A., providing vital support to grassroots campaigns for democratic reform in many areas of American life and bringing those campaigns together to form a united movement for democracy.
Liberty Tree’s current top priority campaign is the Wisconsin Wave, which unites Wisconsinites against corporatization and austerity and for democracy and shared prosperity, http://www.WisconsinWave.org; http://www.libertytreefdr.org/index.php
The Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution is a nonprofit organization rooted in the belief that the American Revolution is a living tradition whose greatest promise is democracy. In order to help achieve that promise, Liberty Tree works to create a society in which communities and individuals have the desire, skills, and capacity to participate in the vital decisions that affect their lives.
“Such a society … is most likely to emerge from a genuine democratic revolution — one that focuses on deep structural, legal, and institutional change, dismantles oppression in all of its forms, and is organized through the transformation of communities, institutions and local governments into conscious agents of democratic change. Liberty Tree collaborates with organizations and individuals to build strategic pro-democracy campaigns that directly challenge illegitimate power, dismantle oppression, and develop the skills necessary to lay the foundation for a democratic revolution.
Liberty Tree’s guiding values:
Feminist, democratic principles of collective and individual accountability, mutual responsibility, active power sharing, and non-hierarchical organizing
Effective movement building grounded in the real needs and experiences of people and communities struggling for democratic power and liberation
American internationalism in the traditions of Thomas Paine, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and the Seattle WTO protests
Nurturing relationships and an organizing culture that is joyful, hopeful and celebratory
The concepts of Sankofa and the Seventh Generation: Sankofa reaches back into our history and carries it into the present; the commitment to the Seventh Generation means that decisions we make today must be evaluated by their impact on generations to come, http://www.libertytreefdr.org/about
Liberty Tree Board of Directors
Medea Benjamin, Director
Karen Dolan, Director
George Martin, Director
John Nichols, Director and President
Victor Wallis, Director
Ben Manski, ex. officio, Executive Director
Phone: (608) 257-1606
Mailing Address: Liberty Tree, P.O. Box 260217, Madison, Wisconsin 53726-0217
NEW Office Address: Liberty Tree, 520 University Avenue, Suite 228, Madison, Wisconsin 53703, http://democracyconvention.org/
Wikipedia notes
The Sankofa represents the importance of learning from the past
Seventh Generation
“‘We are looking ahead, as is one of the first mandates given us as chiefs, to make sure and to make every decision that we make relate to the welfare and well-being of the seventh generation to come. . . .’” Chief of the Onondaga Nation, Oren Lyons, writes.
“‘What about the seventh generation? Where are you taking them? What will they have?’”
Seven Generation Sustainability
Seven generation sustainability is an ecological concept that urges the current generation of humans to live sustainably and work for the benefit of the seventh generation into the future.
It originates with the Iroquois (Great Law of the Iroquois) and holds appropriate to think seven generations ahead — a couple hundred years into the future — and to decide whether the decisions taken today would benefit their children seven generations into the future.
“‘In every deliberation, we must consider the impact on the seventh generation... even if it requires having skin as thick as the bark of a pine’” reportedly from “The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations: The Great Binding Law.”
August 24-28, 2011
Madison, Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin
http://democracyconvention.org/
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