Another World is Possible! Another U.S.A. is necessary!

Conference at University of Minnesota on questions of neoliberalization and corporatization of higher education and the casualization of academic labor.

Students, teachers, workers and parents around the world ask themselves: Is the public education system still serving the interests of the public, or is the focus shifting to implement education systems that primarily serve private and business interests? Tuition fees are – once introduced – sky-rocketing, universities and schools are turned into businesses, student debt keeps increasing and education budgets cut.

This national conference will stimulate municipal efforts to engage citizens in their local democracies to promote a shift from carbon and nuclear energy sources to renewables and conservation, greener transportation and development practices, global elimination of nuclear weapons, and a transition from war spending to a peace economy.

 "Who Decides About War" will be a national conference confronting essential questions raised by the U.S. invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. These questions are timely, as the political process that brought the United States into those wars is widely recognized today as having been flawed at best, dishonest at worst. 

Stay tuned . . . the Democratizing Education Convention is coming back!

 Welcomed to Wisconsin by True Endeavors . . . 

NASCO Action Camp, held each August, provides an intensive training retreat for leaders and members of housing co-ops, worker collectives, and other democratically-run communities.

 Public education systems, from kindergarten to university, must prioritize emancipating aspects, be free and accessible to all. A democracy only exists, if society consists of emancipated and self-determined individuals, that are able to critically reflect their society, developments and power structures. Any system that doesn’t fulfill these criteria is not a democracy.

Announcing our 2009 "Community Organizing
for Deep Democracy" Retreat

Get together with the Wisconsin folks who are moving this campaign forward, including the "Bring the Guard Home" national coordinator, by joining the Wisconsin "Bring the Guard Home" campaign at 6pm on Friday, June 19th at the MREA Energy Fair in Custer, near Stevens Point.

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.

"Close Down Blackwater In Illinois"
A Catholic Worker and Clearwater Conference

The conference will feature workshops on Blackwater and other private military contractors. Learn about all the ways our government has been privatizing and outsourcing our security.

Its our goal that Confronting Racism: Building United Movements will be an organizing space for students and community members throughout Ohio, especially women, people of color, queer, and working-class people, to develop the skills and the vision they need to struggle for a collective liberation against corporate power and institutional oppression. To these ends, Confronting Racism: Building United Movements will provide both structured workshops and more open-space-style discussion spaces that will develop participants’ basic organizing skills and deepen their political analysis and visions toward fundamental social change.