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The Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution is a non-profit organization rooted in the belief that the American Revolution is a living tradition whose greatest promise is democracy. Our central purpose is to build on the accomplishments of earlier American movements by launching a new stage in the struggle for democracy. More...
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 The Local Democracy Program works with elected officials, political parties, and community organizations to democratize municipalities and to unite them as agents of democratic change.
 The Democratizing Elections Program strives to transform U.S. elections by nurturing a powerful new voting rights movement that will implement the fundamental and systemic electoral reforms defined in the 'Voter's Bill of Rights'.
 The Democratizing Education Program works to unite student associations, labor unions, faculty organizations, and grassroots student, parent, and community groups around the principles of the "Democratizing Education Charter" in a national movement against the corporatization of education, and for the democratization of schools, colleges, and universities.
 The Democratizing Defense Program works with active duty military, military reserve, veterans, military families, and concerned citizen groups to win democratic reforms in the area of military affairs and foreign policy. Specific policy objectives of this program include defederalization of the National Guard, a national war referendum amendment, and the withdrawal of U.S. military bases from foreign soil.
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DEMOCRACY AGAINST EMPIRE
VOLUME 2, ISSUE 3
This is What Democracy Looks Like
Sarah Manski on The New G.I. Movement
James Ploeser talks about Democratizing Trade
Policy: Lessons from Costa Rica
Liberty’s Roots
Ben Manski traces From liberty to empire:
The demise of American defense
Forward Thinking
Patrick Barrett on Runaway Train: Empire & Elections
Talking About a Revolution
George Friday interviews Rev. Lennox Yearwood
The Forum
“Democratizing Defense” addressed by
Cynthia McKinney, Paul Buhle,
Stacy Bannerman, and Glen Ford
Fine Art of Democracy
Brandon Lacy Campos
Not Pop
PFC Joseph Lindstrom on
Being "Over There" in the Information Age
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